Rats and sinking ships

Hi,

I was doing a little checking on prices of FSX discs. It appears that in an attempt to unload all FSX discs, while the price is high, undercutting is prevalent. Probably can blame Steam.

Jim F.

Rats and sinking ships

are soon parted?

 

Like a fool and his money? I can't blame Steam. It's the American way of doing business. Look at Henry Ford. And the herd of car makers that came after, making it cheaper yet better (or not...). Overall, the consumers benefit. That's you and me, unless you're one of the ones trying to get a high price for a set of FSX discs, of course...

Pat☺

In Canada:

Microsoft Flight Simulator X Gold: Amazon.ca 3 new from CDN$ 372.35

Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition: Steam Store CDN$ 13.99

 

Sounds like the desperate ones are FSX:SE. Probably because Dovetail Games is also working on its own original titles based on Microsoft’s flight technology; which requires dumping FSX:SE at fire sale prices to support the new development.

Maybe the whole FSX:SE deal with Dovetail is Microsofts path to shut down the old FSX activation servers. So the DVDs become worthless as trading goods all of a sudden. MS could always claim that existing DVD customers can get improved and better FSX for very little money on Steam. They could sponsor the whole $5 sales thing to that end.

 

Just a thought.

I'm pretty sure FSX uses the same activation servers as the rest of the Microsoft products requiring product activations. The deal is more likely about Microsoft making money off of a franchise they currently aren't interested in developing themselves. They could sit on it and forget about it, sell it completely, or sell licences to the product and/or source code and pull in money for many years to come with little or no effort on Microsoft's part. Between Dovetail and LM having licences, it looks like option number 3 is the one they went with.

Maybe the whole FSX:SE deal with Dovetail is Microsofts path to shut down the old FSX activation servers. So the DVDs become worthless as trading goods all of a sudden. MS could always claim that existing DVD customers can get improved and better FSX for very little money on Steam. They could sponsor the whole $5 sales thing to that end.

 

Just a thought.

 

FSX-SE and FSX Disc are not the same product. FSX-SE suffers from compatibility issues. That's why I won't install mine until Dove or Third Parties fix it.

fsx gold is $19-95 at some Australian shops(like in a real shop on a street)

FSX: Gold for about $12.00 from http://www.kalahari.com/Games/Microsoft-Flight-Simulator-X-Gold-Edition_p_34589825

Buy one while you can. There's aren't going to be any more.

I wonder are there people are are actually buying the discs at the highly inflated price?

FSX-SE and FSX Disc are not the same product. FSX-SE suffers from compatibility issues. That's why I won't install mine until Dove or Third Parties fix it.

Third-party utilities suffer from compatibility issues, not FSX:SE. Folks like Pete Dowson and many others have been 'keeping up' with the game.

 

BTW, most of those obscene prices are for bogus and/or pirated product. Buyer Beware rules apply.