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I don't understand Flight Simmers

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Helldiver

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How can people pay $79.20 for one version of a very much overdone P-51, paying twice as much as FSX alone costs and yet ignore something classic like Plum Island Airport at a mere $15? You can fly almost anything you want out of there except for tubeliners.
I think maybe Bill Womack made a mistake. He should have asked $75 bucks for Plum Island.
 
thing is, you only see the scenery if your in the area if covers, personly i get bored if i stay in one place to long, and i can take a plane anywhere i go :)
 
Each to his own.......:ernae:.

You need to consider too that for some money is no object.....

I have expensive add-ons that are not even installed on my machine,cause they were not that much used...Then I have some cheapies that I use alot......
 
harleyman said:
Each to his own.......:ernae:.

You need to consider too that for some money is no object.....

I have expensive add-ons that are not even installed on my machine,cause they were not that much used...Then I have some cheapies that I use alot......
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Same here... I have spent alot of time in Alpha's MiG-25 and F-111 Aardvark lately, (relatively inexpensive add-ons) as well as the latest version of the freeware L-049 amd L-749 Constellations.

BB686:USA-flag:
 
The curious thing about FS add-on pricing is that it doesn't seem to matter (within reason) how you price a product. You would think that pricing a nice addon very cheaply might tempt a few people who otherwise wouldn't buy it to give it a go, but experience hasn't borne that out. Seems there are people who will buy a given product no matter the price, and people who don't want it at any price. There isn't much incentive to give rock-bottom pricing on the part of developers. Plum Island was an experiment on that count, and the results have been... interesting.
 
Bill, I hope that means "good and rewarding". Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing a whole series of those north of Boston - or maybe between Boston and New York. Pease or Concord NH could be the new Bremerton and so on. I am also very interested in the new Emma. Heck, I'll buy anything you do.

Glenn
 
Helldiver, you may not agree with the pricing... but let me say this. If a plane has been in development for several years, is your sole source of income as a addon producer, often works outside of FS core code, etc... I think it is fair to ask for such a price.

I have a friend that developed a very nice aircraft that took several years to produce. His sales are dysmal. He price is lower than the aircraft you mentioned, but his company may be going under due to these horrible sales.

As for overdone...? C'mon friend. Nobody can over-create an aircraft. What is the point of simulating otherwise? Sure, there are plenty that don't want this, but wouldn't you relish in having a Helldiver that worked as you remember it?
 
Truthfully, as a developer I can fully appreciate how much more intense the work can be to create an airplane than scenery. Scenery developers are primarily interested in graphics, but a plane team needs to include programmers, gauge specialists, and flight dynamics experts in addition to modelers and texture artists. It's no wonder they cost so much more on average, and you'll never catch me begrudging them their fees. I've always been happier working as a one-man show, which is why I find scenery more rewarding.

FS sales are dismal across the board right now. I'm sorry to hear that it's affecting everyone, but at least I know that it's not just me. :d Hopefully things will improve soon. In the meantime, we all just have to keep on cranking out projects and crossing our fingers.
 
Well i feel for all you builders / developers these days......I know sales are low,and the kids want to eat...Its a bad time for all...

Personally, i perfer scenery over highly detailed aircraft...Mostly because...

Flying to me is a hobby..High end things with big learning curbes do nothing fow me..I want to load it up and fly over visually apealing sceneary.....


Thats just me though........
 
Well, I payed $300 last week for a new steering wheel to control virtual cars in a sim that's a few years old, but I would never pay $15 for a piece of scenery I would look at only once or twice, no matter how good it is. I hardly ever download freeware scenery for the same reason.

Each his own, but I still am the only one who decides how I spend my money.
 
I do wonder whether HD meant overdone as in there are lots out there, not overdone as in "oversimulated"...

As multiple people have already said, each person has their own preferences and limits as to what they will/won't pay for. There are some here who say that payware is "wrong" altogether and that all add-ons should be free. There are others who will only buy warplanes. I doubt there are too many who will only buy airliners, but there are a large number who would dearly like to buy everything on the planet and sort out the dross from the gems later <sticks hand="" up...="">[</sticks>:wavey: <- me]
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...if only finances allowed, eh? :)

(My new CPU killed my budget for this - and possibly nex</sticks><sticks hand="" up...="">t - month. :( )</sticks>
 
IMO its all about what you feel its worth.

The Mustang doesnt grab me that much so I wont pony over that much money for one. However if somone would do a P-38 with the same level of detail well then.... Thats a horse of a different color :costumes:

It wouldnt be the 1st time I was accused of having more dollars than sense :costumes:
 
I think he might be referring to the Warbirdsim P-51B/C. Don't know if that is an exact price however. The Flight Leader pack is a bit pricey.
 
CodyValkyrie said:
I think he might be referring to the Warbirdsim P-51B/C. Don't know if that is an exact price however. The Flight Leader pack is a bit pricey.
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It is quite, but it's also FS9 only right now, which kind of puts off any effect it might have on Plum. It does, however, prove my point as even were it for FSX, I couldn't afford it - and I'd really like it!
 
I have never been interested in installing individual airport scenery and dont really understand people who do. I installed some years ago - they were very good, but I use the Sim to FLY!, not to taxi around. At the end of the day, most FSx scenery is quite "cartoonish" anyway. . The only addon scenery that I find useful - are some packages that add some buildings to small country fields that are otherwise just a runway in default FSx (boring - and sometimes also hard to find)

Barry
 
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