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Never really thought about it since it's something I enjoy, but now that you mention it I broke it down to get an idea.Computer 3 yrs ago: $1800Monitor and X-52: $350Addons at aprox. $25 each: $1875--------------------------------Total spent over 3 years: $5900 Enjoyment: Priceless!!Until now, I had no idea it was this much. I would have guessed I was in for about $4000 including all my addons. If I divide the cost by how many hours in the FSX log book which are around 2500 hours, then it comes down to about $2.36 an hour, which compared to many hobbies is pretty cheap, especially when compared to renting/owning and flying a real a/c.


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Don't want to think about it...Addons, probably at least $2000 in software...Counting the the 2 grand I dropped on my new system, probably a total of about 3000 in the last 5 yearsPlus peripherals, another $500 therePlus misc, 500Yeah probably around 6k since I started with FS2002.Thankfully a lot of software I got while beta testing...


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If I added it up....Must be coming up to £-$-€20 honest Dear. :(


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I don't wanna think about it. I checked my purchased fsx add-ons on my back up drive and it has a size of 473GB!!:( It became an addict, when there is a new scenery or airplane that I like to buy it :(


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That´s a really good question! For the hardware i´ve spend in the past 3 years:~$1300 for my new system~$215$ for the GTX 260and I plan to spend arround 580$ for SB upgrade (Please take care that I´ve converted it from euro, so in real it should be a bit less.)So I´ve spend about $2095 for the hardware.And more than $600 for FS9 and FSX (FSX should be about $200). But my FSX will grow after my update, so this is it for now.

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I don't dare try to add it up. Thousands upon thousands of dollars, and thousands upon thousands of hours enjoying it!Kind regards,

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I don't dare try to add it up. Thousands upon thousands of dollars, and thousands upon thousands of hours enjoying it!Kind regards,
Yeah, Stephen. I would never spend that much money if i wouldn´t have fun what I´m doing. You can buy you the best system in the world, but you can´t buy the fun which FS gives you.

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I actually set up a spreadsheet to track this stuff about a year ago. Sadly I have spent just under $3,500 on software. What is even more disturbing is that this does not include hardware and FS9 software.Cheers, Pete


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... and on Tax day of all days to ask how much we spent.... LOL :( Im around the 4 - 5 hard swallow thousand dollar mark as well. If you love this hobby or any hobby for that matter I say go for it as you only live once !Jim


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... and on Tax day of all days to ask how much we spent.... LOL  :( Im around the 4 - 5 hard swallow thousand dollar mark as well. If you love this hobby or any hobby for that matter I say go for it as you only live once !Jim
until you reincarnate.....

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I don't dare try to add it up. Thousands upon thousands of dollars, and thousands upon thousands of hours enjoying it!Kind regards,
I probably did all that in FS9 alone, and then all over again in FSX! Before that was FS2002 and before that FS98. Next is MS Flight. It's scary! Kind regards,

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until you reincarnate.....
Easter is just around the corner :(

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