The option is to manufacture a quality product and base the price on the reliability and the support (that needs to be) available. CH Products are a good example of American build quality - conventional but sturdy - their controllers have the reputation of lasting a decade or longer. If something goes wrong they will fix it, and the software writer can be contacted any day on the users' website. They don't really do meaningless bells and whistles...but most users don't need that.
The problem is more about weaning your children away from the boredom/ gratification/ boredom cycle that has taken over from society.
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Another home-built rig:
AMD FX 8350, liquid-cooled. Asus Sabretooth 990FX Rev 2.0 , 16 GB Mushkin Redline (DDR3-PC12800), Enermax 1000W PSU, MSI R9-280X 3GB GDDR5
2 X 128GB OCZ Vertex SSD, 1 x64GB Corsair SSD, 1x 500GB WD HDD.
CH Franken-Tripehound stick and throttle merged, CH Pro pedals. TrackIR 5 and Pro-clip. Windows 7 64bit Home Premium.
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