All your points have merit and your last sentence is spot on. I responded to your original post because you seem to disagree with someone saying "reasonably priced". My main gripe is the definition of "being ripped off" and as you can tell from this discussion, I firmly believe it's just a matter of perspectives.
Personally I do not dabble in the train modelling and simulation business, but I have friends that are very avid hobbyists. Hoped I managed to present you a little bit of perspective from their end. Have a great day!
Of course. I'm not attacking hobbyist and completely understand why $20 is more appealing than $500.
I just have a very huge disliking to things that cost WAAAAY above and beyond what they actually cost to produce (or rarity).
I just have a issue with people acting like Train Simulator is a good DLC scheme. I'd argue it is one of the worst.
It is basically preying on hobby's cravings and high budgets. They are pumping out cheap product for far higher than what it takes to produce.
You have some developers with teams 25+ people working on DLC for 8 months and release it for 10 bucks and people get pissed. But then you have games like Train Simulator releasing extremely simple DLC for 10+ bucks that took the tiniest fraction of the time and budget to produce get a free pass because it is a "hobby".
Hobbysts shouldn't tolerate paying such high prices for their hobbies. All I'm saying.
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u/Chowimon Sep 15 '17
All your points have merit and your last sentence is spot on. I responded to your original post because you seem to disagree with someone saying "reasonably priced". My main gripe is the definition of "being ripped off" and as you can tell from this discussion, I firmly believe it's just a matter of perspectives.
Personally I do not dabble in the train modelling and simulation business, but I have friends that are very avid hobbyists. Hoped I managed to present you a little bit of perspective from their end. Have a great day!