ORIGINAL: malcolmm
The approximately $200 cost of RC flight simulators isn't unreasonable to me.
What is unreasonable are the upgrade policies. Upgrading to a new version of a simulator rarely makes economic sense. I have no intention of spending $200, and then having the product become obsolete as little as a year later. If I could buy a simulator, and then be guaranteed that upgrading to new releases would never cost more than, say $75, this would be a big incentive for me to buy that simulator.
Malcolm
I don't know what sim you are referring to here. FSone has FREE upgrade patches. G3 has FREE upgrade patches.(soon FREE upgrade ot G3.5) and AFPD has patches I believe. All of the aformentioned upgrades are FREE. These patches improve the sim. I see no reason to buy another sim if you already own G3, or FSone. (AFPD and REFLEX were excluded to the fact I don't pay much attention to them anymore) There are no other $200 sims on the market that I'm aware of.
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