#4343885 - 03/12/17 04:24 PM
Re: Price of F-5E
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ED has been selling modules at this price point for the past five plus years. Now is a bit late to complain about it. Ah! Good point! That must be the reason why I've not really bought anything from ED after BS2. Not that I'm complaining about it. I see, so you have absolutely zero first hand experience with any DCS modules since 2011. Now I understand your lack of a coherent discussion.
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#4343900 - 03/12/17 06:33 PM
Re: Price of F-5E
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I see, so you have absolutely zero first hand experience with any DCS modules since 2011. Now I understand your lack of a coherent discussion. I don't have to buy any modules past that date. There's enough people posting first-hand experience to create a clear picture of the current state of DCS. Please feel free to point out where my discussion points are not on-target regarding DCS.... until you do, I suggest you go and play with little kids and leave the grown up discussion to the grown ups. I'm tired of having to call the Waaahmbulance... Enjoy your Lays potato chips!
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#4343902 - 03/12/17 06:36 PM
Re: Price of F-5E
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So... if you don't like it, don't buy it... and watch the train wreck.... or the phoenix... who knows? Hahaha!! Indeed! If you don't like it, don't buy it! Then there are people here who think first-hand experience and actually OWNING a module is needed for your opinion to count. Why should I waste my money when I can do two clicks on the internet and find out what the module is a waste of money? Do I have to burn my cash as well in order to call a module bad? It's thinking like this that allows ED to thrive. I've seen ED start to go down this route way back then... I only need a few moments to confirm that they're still going down this route and even forging new frontiers on their way down. I don't need to waste a single cent of my hard-earned money to do this.... I'd rather give my coins to the bum on the street corner. A hot cup of coffee will do him more good and will contribute to the positivity of the world than giving it to ED.
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#4343907 - 03/12/17 07:05 PM
Re: Price of F-5E
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[quote=Member01] I'd rather give my coins to the bum on the street corner. The fact that you refer to him as bum is very telling. Thanks for the insight.
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#4343923 - 03/12/17 08:12 PM
Re: Price of F-5E
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Pffft!! Yeah, concentrate on the fact that I referred to him as a "bum" rather than some other term that is more in line with your sensibilities. Nevermind the fact that I'm giving him money, helping him out. Selective reading much? Oh, yeah, you go out of context to snipe at other posters because you can't handle the CONTENT of their posts. Thanks for the insight!
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#4343944 - 03/12/17 09:50 PM
Re: Price of F-5E
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Looking at your posts, I just thought we were posting random incoherent stuff. I guess you missed all of David_OC's posts. Also, do you have something to contribute to the thread or are you just here to fling your poop around?
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#4343950 - 03/12/17 10:26 PM
Re: Price of F-5E
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ours has become quite an expensive hobby over the years, if you include the hardware needed , even more so. just to get 5 modules I don't right now own : $48+$40+$41+$36+$25 + 5% tax I would end up paying ... US$200 and on top of that I pay US$150 for a yearly Photoshop license ... expensive hobby indeed I think any hobby can become expensive if you pursue it to any decent level. My first telescope cost about $150 but I ended up sinking thousands into Astro-imaging. Learning to fly costs thousands and yet I did that as a hobby/pastime even though I really wasn't earning much (but I fly for a living now so I guess it wasn't a waste of money in the end).
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#4343959 - 03/12/17 11:54 PM
Re: Price of F-5E
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I think any hobby can become expensive if you pursue it to any decent level. This is so true! Heck, in pursuit of my simulation hobby, I needed to learn how to work with wood and had to buy the necessary tools as well. An el-cheapo £20 drill that goes on/off was okay, but when I bought a B&D one for £35, the ability to control the speed of the drill based on finger pressure on the trigger made life so much more easier. I can also make cuts using a jigsaw, but using a circular saw was easier. Both were then trumped when I got a router. However, it's not really the expense that people are lamenting about. People are not exactly complaining about the 1080 or 1070 that they are buying to run this sim. It's the fact that even at $60 or $50 or $40, the sim does not feel "worth it".... for reasons that have been repeated so many times. If ED cleaned up their act and sorted out those concerns, these complaints would go away. I'd happily pay for £100-150 for a good meal for the family at a nice place and it'll be money well spent. £40 at McDonalds? YGTBSM!!
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#4343991 - 03/13/17 03:59 AM
Re: Price of F-5E
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That depends on if you consider McDonalds to be a good analogy for DCS. Personally I think it is pretty amazing, but we both know that our positions on that are polar opposite.
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#4343994 - 03/13/17 06:10 AM
Re: Price of F-5E
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And im somewhere between you two, i love and hate dcs 50/50 ... if only falcon BMS will get VR support , then i dont have to play dcs until its fixed enough for me ( 90% of my hate is because dcs AI is so bugged that making missions is pain in my butt)
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#4343996 - 03/13/17 07:28 AM
Re: Price of F-5E
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And im somewhere between you two, i love and hate dcs 50/50 ... if only falcon BMS will get VR support , then i dont have to play dcs until its fixed enough for me ( 90% of my hate is because dcs AI is so bugged that making missions is pain in my butt) I wish they could make the maps a little better in BMS and not have so much repetition to the look of the land and cities. VR support would be good, you would think flyinside would go after this market if they could. The world would be a different place if we had a combat sim like F4 with its Dynamic Campaign and with DCS visuals, well most of the time, they seem to be playing with things at the moment.
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#4344006 - 03/13/17 10:08 AM
Re: Price of F-5E
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That depends on if you consider McDonalds to be a good analogy for DCS. Personally I think it is pretty amazing, but we both know that our positions on that are polar opposite. Not a direct comparison, no. Just comparing paying for a nice meal at a fancy place and then paying too much for "junk food." McDonalds, Burger King, take your pick. Not that fast food isn't "amazing," it can be especially when you're hungry at 4am and everywhere else is closed.... but again, I was comparing cost vs. what you get for the money. I wish they could make the maps a little better in BMS and not have so much repetition to the look of the land and cities. VR support would be good, you would think flyinside would go after this market if they could. The new Korea map has removed a good deal of the repetition... and then I suggest you look at the 3rd-party add-on maps and then tell me if you still have this "repetition" issue
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#4344026 - 03/13/17 12:28 PM
Re: Price of F-5E
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In my opinion , its not worth it unless it had a good discount
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#4344297 - 03/14/17 03:27 PM
Re: Price of F-5E
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