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Yea, gotta rake in that sweet DLC money. In fact, the base game is just a vessel to extract as much money from people as possible. Flight Sim X has 272 pieces of DLC costing many thousands of dollars. It's obscene, and they should be ashamed. I can't believe people are actually hyped about this money sink.

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I don't think it's something to be ashamed about. It's an economical model that works for them. Sims in general are not your traditional game, people buy one plane at a time and they spend hundred and hundred hours in a given plane.

But if you want to get shocked at DLC money, you should look into Train Simulator: https://i.redd.it/3kygja9jie031.png

I was going to make a comparison to that game, but I can't find any way to tally up the total cost of all its DLC on Steam, but posts from 2018 quote it at around 5000 USD.

So it's not Train Sim levels bad, but it's not far off either.

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