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As long as there is idiocy to buy products with abusive values like this, there will be abusers like them.
For me it’s over, I don’t buy anything else in this MARKETPLACE, if I could I would even uninstall this game store.
Enquanto tiver idiotia que compre produtos com valores abusivos assim, haverão abusadores como eles.
Para mim acabou, não compro mais nada nesse MARKETPLACE, se pudesse eu até desinstalaria essa loja do jogo.
My advice is: buy the new flight simulator soon as possible. The prices can change!
Hello Asobo, you need to review this new charges to Brazil. People here pay tons of abusive taxes to live… and now, to have some fun, we need to pay a expensive mods for the simulador! Come on, give us the old prices again!
While I sympathize with the complaints about exchange rates and increases in MSFS marketplace prices, hyperbole like this doesn’t do any service to the arguments. The PMDG 777 is 500 BRL (77US). The cost for an actual Boeing 777-ER200 (for example) is 306 million US or ~2,019,600,000BRL (at MS’s exchange rate). It will be a long time before a simulator aircraft will ever be more expensive than a real aircraft. 
I don’t think this price increase is reasonable at all, especially given our reality as a poor country, but we have some of the highest taxes in the world, and they keep increasing. I’m not aware in details, but there’s a chance that this price adjustment is relationed to some new regulation, as we’ll have a new tax scheme here in the near future (2026, I think).
Just to give you an idea: some projections is telling us our VAT will be more than 28% 
All that said, we should be careful when considering just the exchange rate to discuss the new price - maybe there’s something more to be evaluated.
However, it’s a shame to see Microsoft turning his back to Brazil: if I’m not mistaken, there’s no “official” distribution of Xbox Series X in Brazil anymore, as we never had some other Microsoft devices - Surface laptops, for example.
As a customer since FS98, I really hope Microsoft will review this price policy - otherwise, there’s no way to keep supporting this passion.
Thank you! The MSFS community in Brazil thanks you. We hope that these marketplace pricing rates will be reviewed.
Simple, what makes MSFS different from LOL or WOW? Let’s go, 1 - both can only be played online 2 - Both can be played with a subscription (haaaa but I paid for the full version to play, no my friend you rented it for X amount of time until it was replaced by another version and they shut down the servers since in the end it is not yours you are only allowed to play it until a day they think you should do so, take the price you paid and divide it by the months you used it, then subscription) 3 - It has rewards that you acquire throughout your journey 4 - it has an internal store where you can buy missions and items to help you play better 5 - It is not on your HD and you can’t play without internet 6 - It has a multiplayer that you can play with friends 7 - It can be played on a video game, so a game… there is much more and we would spend days here reporting the similarities. and regarding updates, they do have to make and deliver something that works, because since it was released it has still been a simulator full of bugs in an eternal beta, they have to release updates, that’s the least they can do. not to mention the disastrous fixes that fix one part and break two… and so on. I hope I’ve answered you.
Hello, I’m sorry the irony was lost on you. The comparison was just an exaggerated way to emphasize the point of the topic—something that, clearly, even you noticed. But thank you for the clarification! Now we all know that a R$500/400 add-on doesn’t quite reach the price of a R$2 billion Boeing 777-ER200—truly groundbreaking information. Too bad that by taking my comment out of context, you’ve actually ended up misinforming the community. 
First of all it wasn’t irony. It was hyperbole and it didn’t help your argument. If the community feels misinformed by what I posted then my apologies to them.
Same in Argentina. Prices have tripled and even quadrupled while our currency has not been devalued since the last time the exchange rate was updated.
Why would I pay the equivalent of $45 in AR$ when for $50 I can buy it in A2A store and have faster updates?
In Argentina, since the last price update, the Argentinian currency (the argentinian peso, or AR$) hasn’t had any significant change related to USD, but for some impossible to understand reason, items have triplicated and cuadruplicated in price.
This turns almost the entire marketplace almost impossible to afford. There is no actual financial market reason or economy change that explains the increase, which is completely out of range of the announced changes (which, by any means, were at most 30%).
An overnight 300% unannounced price increase seems not only abusive, but also damages developers, items simply can’t be afforded now.
I think the best way forward besided complaining is simply boycot the new MSFS2024, stop reacting to it, we need to get all the big content creators from Brazil to simply boycot and DO NOT MENTION OR REACT TO THE NEW SIM. Steam from example always had a GOOD exchange rate. I don’t think with the 4 to 1 rate , below market it was cheap. Now it’s simply impossible for most people to join the sim. I probably had like 4-5x times more to MS than the original game (which for me was Premium Deluxe). They are treating potential countries like Brazil, China, India and others like nothing, they need to remember that the BRICS already has a bigger GDP than the OECD countries which they treat so well with WU almost every month. I will simply not buy anything from the Marketplace and neither the new MSFS2024, I will probably just test it and only the really good airplanes I will buy directly from the developers. Luckly we still have other way to support DEVs and also options. Hope this was a temporary mistake from MS.
This is not low prices at all, my example, be honest to you. I waited for the 777 to be on the marketplace to support DEVs because of the favorable exchange rate, I would not buy other add-ons that I dot not believe are really good for this price, luckly I trust PMDG because the 737 I already had and was aware of the product’s quality. But other small or average add-ons, mostly airports I will never even try with an almost 100% increase in real price for us. We need to consider purchase power, steam for example does that favorable like 4 to 1 (25% better than oficial market) for many years, which allows countries with unfavorable exchange and salaries still participate in the market and buy.
For 2023, the total GDP of the BRICS countries was about $27.6 trillion. With the new members joining in early 2024 (Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates), the GDP of the BRICS countries will increase to about $30.8 trillion.
In 2023, China accounted for about $17.7 trillion of the BRICS’ total GDP. China’s GDP is forecast to reach around $18.5 trillion in 2024.
For 2023, the total gross domestic product (GDP) of the OECD countries was about $61 trillion. A slight growth to about $62.8 trillion is forecast for 2024.
No.. You really didn’t. You only showed that you don’t understand what pay-to-play means.
But we’re getting too much off-topic
Gross domestic product growth does not always mean social equality, especially in the case of Brazil. That is not the issue; those who have a SIM card generally have a reasonable standard of living. In my case, I have a Series S that I paid for with a lot of hard work. But I hope I have helped to make sense of your argument.
I just wanted to clarify the facts, but we don’t want to stray too far from the topic.
Remember when FS2020 came out, many people were bragging that they got the sim cheap by VPNing into Brazil to buy it.
I would guess that it has something to do with FS2024’s release.
I can understand that (a measure to ensure people do not use a VPN to get different prices… while on the other hand this is common when buying tickets).
Nevertheless, economies are VERY different (for example a good salary in Argentina is USD18000/year, while -according to google- the average salary for the US is >45K/year). So, regional prices are something reasonable.
Now for some unexplainable reason, we have the same if not higher prices than the US. Per MS words, prices had already been adjsted for Argentina (actually, only Argentina and Turkey were adjusted before). And now it’s not only Brazil, but also Argentina.
Market prices now are impossible to afford, increments range from 300% to 500%.
I did a mistake, I was about to mention the G7 vs BRICS. Anyway, I don’t care, the point is that MS is doing a huge mistake by excluding so many from the market… excluding economies that could and have a strong potential to join the sim if the prices are reasonable, which they are not anymore, now it will became a hobby for the few 5% richher or less. And trust my words, if you are not from the Global South, Brazil, this is exactly true considering the hardware you will need and the software prices as well… later they will complain about online pi.racy and will not have a single idea how they created it themselfs, which is bad for everyone, most impacting developers and people but at some point to the big companies as well…
