I saw this in a magazine I picked up recently. But since I've already bought G3 last month at $199.00 I'll have to pass on this one. I too think that the $200 price point is way to high.

If Flight Sims were less expensive, then I would probably have a couple of them and my money would be shared amongst the different developers, but as it is not, then only one company got my money.

I think that a large chunk of the price is spent on including the dummy controllers that some of them use. They could substantially lower the price by including regular software copy protection and include a simpler dongle that uses the end users transmitter. This would greatly reduce the appeared value of the FS to the end user.

In any event, G3 already has my money, and until or if the price on other similar quality sims comes down to say $100 then I'll just stick with G3. I also see little point in buying xpacks just to get "new" planes. If my sim has helis and planes in it now, I see little point in spending $40.00 more to get some more skinned planes just for the eye candy. These are RC flight simulators not really games (although they are fun like games at times), so xpacks usually consist of little more than extra eye candy in things like different planes, weather effects and flying fields.

I wish all of the sims mfg's good luck, and while I dont really regret buying G3, I am of the mind that I'll probably sell it off on ebay or some RC site in the very near future as Im more of a leisure flyer (i.e. not into 3D flying) and the only use it is to me at this point is be able to fly when it's too windy outside if Im in the mood and have time to actually fly so I'm not learning anything new from it and it serves only as a way to fake fly when it's too windy. It served it's main purpose for which I purchased it, that of teaching me stick movement for orientation.