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You can expect to buy few planes and other content in your flight sim career though. It will not be the first sim where I eventually spend a couple 100$ for 1000s hours of playing and that is all right.
For now you need nothing as there is a lot of good freeware content.Or you buy a premium plane for 50$ that takes months to learn. But you certainly dont go and spend 2000$ on 100 airport sceneries.
Furthermore the DLCs available here are not the only one you can buy, checkout https://x-plane.org for example and there is also a lot of stuff available for free made by enthusiasts.
When you for example buy the Aerosoft Zürich airport addon you get a new, more realistic "skin" for the already included Zürich airport.
This means scenery designers working for Aeorosft have created custom 3d models and textures that look exactly like the buildings at Zürich airport. This usually takes many working hours and probably also some journeys to take specific photos at this airport and such and therefore the price tag.
It's also not uncommon (also for other simulators) that some single addon might even have a higher price tag than the actual base simulator.
There is also add-on hardware for flight simulators, this is maybe one of the most extreme examples in which the base product (x-plane 11) is probably the cheapest part of the setup:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK1xP9Wqzx0
You can also start designing your own aircraft, airport or plugin and either upload it for free or even sell it, since all software and documentation required for creating own stuff is included, all this is documented at https://developer.x-plane.com
Welcome to the world of flight simming.
By the way:
I use no payware Add-on at all with x-plane since I'm quite happy with what it gives me by default for what I use it in combination with some very good freeware tools!
The misunderstanding that wowogiengen may have fallen for is that he thinks all this DLC content is by Laminar Research when in fact they would need 100s if not 1000s of employees to create so many on addons. And the reasons that they are so expensive is that they are often an awful lot of time to make (many addon planes are not even on Steam and took years to make just like a game). And also a lot of them are overpriced but that is a different matter.
The other point is that most of the content is already in XP. There is a database of 1000s airports inclided which often have 3d scenery and there is global scenery (only polar and antarctic regions are missing). It's not like you need to buy airport XY but rather you can buy airport xy that someone spent months to make, with very intricate ground traffic and 3d modelling to perfectly match the real thing. Some peope buy an airport because it is their home or they have plenty of money but buying addon airports is imo the least thing I would worry about.
And there are a lot of really good planes included in the base game too they are just not modelled to study levels.
Eventually you should reserve the 30-70$ for 1 really good plane that you carefully selected and really want to become one with but for the beginning you dont even need it. The included planes are good, just not study level.
And it's true most of the really expensive addons are not even on Steam for example OrbX, FlyJSim, LES, IXEG, Flight Factor, VSkylabs and many others
Seriously,..you get what you need either for X-plane or your sandwich.
X-Plane comes with a good selection of planes to fly, so you don't need to buy anything unless you *must* fly a certain plane.
Or you can accumulate 18 birthdays, at which point the social expectation is you'll be getting your own money and will be able to afford, say, X-Plane 20 and any addons easily.