All - You realize that any game habit, will push your hardware and control devices budget to the limit. This one has caused me to spend I think close to 6,000 USD over the course the last 3+ years. The monitor was 1000, the PC (which now is out of date) was 3400, the throttle, JS and Base, and Pedals was close to 2000 with the tax and shipping. The keyboard was 288 and failed at the 18-month point.
The new potential PC is almost 4000. This and any other game is just a way to get you to spend money on PC stuff, and contrary to belief, two things run PC sales, Gamers and ■■■■, not business, ■■■■ is losing out to the gaming industry. I would not upgrade my equipment to watch movies of any types, maybe the TV, but those are way cheaper than game devices and PC’s to use for them.
Oh, forgot the Monster Tech Flight Chair and all the do-dads to make Virpil stuff fit correctly, that was another 1800 or so. IT works in all FS’s, and as aside, try to keep all settings the same in all flight sims I fly in, MSFS, XP, FSX, and if I can get it to work FS-2004 Century of Flight.
PC prices (Game type high end ones) have almost doubled in the three years this game has been around. In my wildest dreams I would have never thought a video card would cost 1499 (NV-RTX-4090), nor MB prices hit almost a thousand dollars. Welcome to the new world.
Jay Two Cents on YouTube has an excellent video on why prices are nuts, and why MB prices are going up, part of it is “keeping up with the jones’s” and putting more things on the base board instead of cards to handle the chore. In the old days, you had a sound card, and a video card, and a network card, and Parallel printer card, and other cards, now, all built in to main board.