To expand on what John just said (which I believe is absolutely true):

Payware products are most likely price inelastic. That is, the quantity demanded of them changes very little following big changes in price.
This is due mainly to addiction I would think. For example, payware junkies like Ashar. Even if the price of payware was increased by 50% he would still buy nearly as many add-ons.
However, if the price of payware is halved the quantity demanded of Payware products would not double as one might expect. It might increase by a quarter, because the market is so small for payware products and the number of addicted payware junkies is limited. Many people strongly believe in only freeware.



Look at this Market diagram I drew in photoshop. Demand is inelastic. As you can see, the large change in price from P1 to P2 causes a rather small change in demand from D1 to D2.
Because the total revenue is depicted by this formula:
TR = Quantity demanded X Price per unit
The area under the coloured lines represent the total revenue payware companies earn.

So, as we can see at a higher price (the red line) the area under the line (total revenue) is much larger than for a low price (blue line).

Payware companies are earning for themselves as large a revenue as possible at high prices. We discussed recently how this is an efficient way of allocating payware products.

An important concept:
Demand at a given price measures people's willingness to buy a product at that price.
So from this we conclude: people who buy the payware at high prices value it more than people who do not, hence it is a fair and efficient method of distribution which ensures that people who value the product enough will have it and people who dont will not.

However, this is of course a big generalisation, as economics thrives on generalisations.

Rest assured then, that obviously there is a price at which demand is no longer inelastic and demand would plummet beyond that price. So rest assured, the price will not keep rising forever.

Thats my economics revision for today... 

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You forgot to mention the every 3 year service that costs $250 to 400, and the autowinder box which for a decent one is about $800, however if you do take care of a Rolex it will be a hand me down for generations, and they do keep impecable time. That and while I wouldnt buy one personally, I have yet to turn down a high tier watch as a gift.

The 14k/ss Submariner is a gorgeous watch (just have to watch out for ogling eyes lol)

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To be fair, PSS are just capitalising on the people in the market that must have everything straight or very soon after it comes out. Wait a few months and most of their products are published (boxed) by Just Flight...

Just my 2 cents here.  My copy of COF cost $34 at the time.  When it came out it was $48-$54 depending where you buy, $48 at Walmart initially ($29.97  now) Anyway, I would have no problem at all paying nearly double the initial release price for the sim IF all the included aircraft were of PMDG, Flight1, Feelthere etc. quality, detail, and systems implementation.  All airliners with complete functiona overheads, avionics, FMC's etc.  All GA aircraft with exact duplication of realworld GPS (think realityxp here).  Yes, let them indeed make it all as real as it gets for REAL and charge an according price and my debit card would still clear leather.  Just my 2 cents.

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If every aircraft in FS was up to the quality of PMDG then its likely that only the very well off would be able to afford it.
A. Because the initial unit price would be in the 100's ($/£).
B. The computer needed to actually needed to run it would  be far in excess of the specs of the current machines most of us run.
C. Even future computers would struggle much as most of the current crop do with the the current sim.

Stop moaning about the price of payware and the quality of FS. If you can't afford the payware then do what most of us do and  SAVE.
The current version of FS IS as real as it gets for the CURRENT crop of machines if you want to have it any more real then go book yourself some time in a Professional simulator. Or upgrade/ improve your machine so you can up the settings. Either way it's going to cost.

I know which way I prefer. I've Saved to improve both my machine and buy the payware that I want. I'm sure most of you could do the same.

FS_Pilot you obviously didn't get the point of my thread.

If the payware manufacturers had their products incorporated into FS it would either mean that the product would need to be diluted to a point where the majority of computers would be able to run it or, the sim would have a price for the consumer that most of us wouldn't be able to afford or be able to afford the computers to run it on.

As FS stands, it runs reasonably on most peoples computers it doesn't cost too much and the aircraft included are reasonable replications of the real thing, within the constraints of the sim.

It's a fantastic base for both free and payware developers to improve on.

And yes your observation is right I do have a bias toward payware ...... I go out and earn the money to pay for it and apart from the occasional beer it's the only luxury I allow myself.

Why would it be hard to run? Most payware I've had (Scenery) Has made my comp run better, Now My comp has ran FS Fairly well with paywar (since the day I bought it and it aint no luxury) so why wouldnt all payware quality run? my 6200 I got for 39.99 grouped with this 1 and half year old comp gets 15-40FPS in most places when it works on max settings...... I dont think it would cause Major issues really with technology, However this is just my humble opinion! Cheers, Gunny

EDIT: Planes are the same but they tax it a little, until I got a new graphics card thats not exactly up to date!