Video game software has maintained practically the same price point over many years. Falcon 4.0 was $54.95 in 1998 which put into a handily Googled CPI inflation calculator is $81.36 in 2016 dollars.
Still...Falcon came as a complete package with dynamic campaign, excellent radio chatter, immersive and lively battlefield...etc. Things DCS still doesn't have after being developed starting with Flanker for 25 years.
Not to mention what came with it...massive printed binder manual, the cost of making gold CD's, keyboard layout cards...etc.
