Has anyone paid 4,753.46 dollars for all of the DLC?

[batmantornado27]

I not tallking about like maybe one each month im talking all at once has anyone done it?

[Morag]

I doubt there's anyone who bought all the Steam DLC for FSX but there are certainly people out there who have spent 10s or even 100s of thousands of dollars on flight simming. Stuff like this

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php/108990-Perhaps-the-Ultimate-Home-Simulator

apparently cost $600k not including the building that houses it..

[batmantornado27]

Damn you gotta have a lot of money to pay 600 thousand dollars for just a home simulator but then again i have seen DCS players build replica A10 cockpits so i guess its possible

[batmantornado27]

Oh and also at that point you can just buy a plane

[gspectre]

Your question is not possible since no one on steam or the internet is selling all the FSX add-ons in 1 bundle since they are provided by so many different 3rd party creators. I just don't understand the point to your question. It's like asking if anyone has seen every movies ever released since the day they were born, or if anyone has ever ordered everything offered on a menu in 1 visit just because they are offered. Not every add-on is to everyones liking and many add-ons are duplicates but with some changes.

[old.school]

A few weeks ago i was browsing youtube for FSX related videos and i ran across the same thing where people would complain about the pricing/dlc model of games/sims like FSX, DCS and Train Simulator.

But you need to ask yourself...are you ever going to use all of that DLC content?

[Morag]

Originally posted by gspectre:

I just don't understand the point to your question.

I must admit that initially I thought this was another one of those "what's with all the DLC" type troll posts but I noticed that he actually owns FSX on Steam, re-read his post and decided that he is actually interested in how high people are prepared to ram their credit card for their simming pleasure.

[Morag]

Originally posted by Cyka blyat:

Oh and also at that point you can just buy a plane

heh, not a 777 though - you're looking at ~$25million just for one engine

[batmantornado27]

Originally posted by Morag:

Originally posted by Cyka blyat:

Oh and also at that point you can just buy a plane

heh, not a 777 though - you're looking at ~$25million just for one engine

maybe not a 777 but maybe a small single prop plane

[Morag]

Originally posted by Cyka blyat:

Originally posted by Morag:

heh, not a 777 though - you're looking at ~$25million just for one engine

maybe not a 777 but maybe a small single prop plane

oh ye easy, $500k would get you a very nice single or twin, esp a used one. I'd be surprised if the owner of that sim rig didn't already own his own plane though, dunno if he has more money than sense but he's got more money than me that's for sure!

[jfholer]

LOL God I hope nobody is stupid enough to buy all of the Steam DLC for FSX. I learned the hard way after buying multiple DLC's from Steam only to have issues with many of them. I learned my lesson to stay away from ALL Steam DLC.

And yeah, I know that the DLC is from 3rd party developers however it's sold through Steam, downloaded from Steam, and allegedly installed from the Steam servers...only problem is many have a multitude of issues...don't believe me just do a Google search of the DLC titles and see how much the Steam DLC sucks.

[Rogen]

I've bought some items from Steam, they're usually a pretty good price when on sale and I've not had any direct issues with them, however the bulk of addins I've purchased over the years are outside of Steam, plus there is the added advantage of most purchases outside of Steam offering either a free or reduced cost upgrade path to later releases and to P3D (as an example), where as if purchased through Steam, they are good for FSX-SE only as they are DRM locked.

Cheers

[Nightmare1964]

Wow! Someone was busy on the calculator :)

[Thogmar]

Originally posted by Cyka blyat:

Oh and also at that point you can just buy a plane

That argument about buying "the real thing" vs a computer sim has never been valid.
Sims allow users to fly billions of dollars worth of airliners, military jets, general aircraft, travel instantly to anywhere in the world to practice airports and airspace. Racing sims do the same thing with cars and tracks, etc.

Owning an actual vehicle is a very limited and very expensive use of one's time and money, with most people only able to own a very low level aircraft or car, and only travel within their own country or continent. It is an enjoyable passtime if one wants to deal with maintenance, hanger storage, insurance, and the real world risk of accident ofreven death. Obviously many people do choose ot enjoy real race cars, aircraft, motorcycles, boats, etc., but that has absolutely zero to do with whether they'll also enjoy a computer sim. TWO SEPARATE EXPERIENCES.

The simple comparison of sim cost (even for multi-hundred thousand dollar home sims) to real life has never correlated in value - sims simply provide a massively larger experience for a very tiny cost per hour when calculated over a lifetime of sim use.

[batmantornado27]

Originally posted by Thogmar:

Originally posted by Cyka blyat:

Oh and also at that point you can just buy a plane

That argument about buying "the real thing" vs a computer sim has never been valid.
Sims allow users to fly billions of dollars worth of airliners, military jets, general aircraft, travel instantly to anywhere in the world to practice airports and airspace. Racing sims do the same thing with cars and tracks, etc.

Owning an actual vehicle is a very limited and very expensive use of one's time and money, with most people only able to own a very low level aircraft or car, and only travel within their own country or continent. It is an enjoyable passtime if one wants to deal with maintenance, hanger storage, insurance, and the real world risk of accident ofreven death. Obviously many people do choose ot enjoy real race cars, aircraft, motorcycles, boats, etc., but that has absolutely zero to do with whether they'll also enjoy a computer sim. TWO SEPARATE EXPERIENCES.

The simple comparison of sim cost (even for multi-hundred thousand dollar home sims) to real life has never correlated in value - sims simply provide a massively larger experience for a very tiny cost per hour when calculated over a lifetime of sim use.

Well yes i understand since if you can make an ultra realistic sim experience then it would feel like the real thing and you could really fly any aircraft you want and if you just buy a plane it would eventually get boring since like you said its very limited of what you can actually do

[gspectre]

Originally posted by Cyka blyat:

Originally posted by Thogmar:

That argument about buying "the real thing" vs a computer sim has never been valid.
Sims allow users to fly billions of dollars worth of airliners, military jets, general aircraft, travel instantly to anywhere in the world to practice airports and airspace. Racing sims do the same thing with cars and tracks, etc.

Owning an actual vehicle is a very limited and very expensive use of one's time and money, with most people only able to own a very low level aircraft or car, and only travel within their own country or continent. It is an enjoyable passtime if one wants to deal with maintenance, hanger storage, insurance, and the real world risk of accident ofreven death. Obviously many people do choose ot enjoy real race cars, aircraft, motorcycles, boats, etc., but that has absolutely zero to do with whether they'll also enjoy a computer sim. TWO SEPARATE EXPERIENCES.

The simple comparison of sim cost (even for multi-hundred thousand dollar home sims) to real life has never correlated in value - sims simply provide a massively larger experience for a very tiny cost per hour when calculated over a lifetime of sim use.

Well yes i understand since if you can make an ultra realistic sim experience then it would feel like the real thing and you could really fly any aircraft you want and if you just buy a plane it would eventually get boring since like you said its very limited of what you can actually do

Not to mention, in a Sim, you can have as many accidents as needed to become proficient. In cars, boats and planes, you are limited to the number of accidents, based on cost and severity of the accident. No resets in life ;-)