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Originally Posted by ACE-OF-ACES
I for one agree 100%
Your post, like others wrt the cost of the software (game) relative to the hardware puts it into perspective
And your example only touches on the GPU..
Less not forget the PC itself.. An easy $1000.00+, nor should we forget about all the 'other' items people spend their money on.. Like $150 TrackIR, $300 Joystick; Rudders; Throttle, $200 speakers, etc.. etc..
And of all those expenses the game is the least expensive!
So I always get a good laugh at the people with the $2500+ plus list of hardware in their sig complaining about the $50 game as if their kids are now going to have to go hungry because their 'investment' in their game purchase didn't provide the returns they were expecting.. It just does not ring true!
Flight simming is an expensive 'hobby'! Which requires cutting edge hardware! Allways has been allways will be!
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I agree 100%, but another perspective might be that sim enthusiasts invest that amount of money because they want to play the particular flight sim. If there was no interest in CoD/IL2/BoB:WoV/RoF/Black Shark et al, there wouldn't be purchases toward higher end systems.
It's not like someone went out and spent $2,500.00 on a PC and then went out to find a game to play on it. People have always been upgrading PCs for particular games and interests. Since Id software creating Wolfenstein people have upgraded to play at the highest resolutions and smoothness.