What Would The Cost Be.....?????

[Tony Trout]

What would the total cost be to purchase all currently available aircraft & map areas?  The reason I ask is because I live on a fixed income (I'm mildly disabled with Cerebral Palsy & Hydrocephalus) and most of that money goes towards my living expenses and I just have to go from month-to-month saving up the money if I see something I want to buy.  

If anybody can kindly answer this one question, I would very much appreciate it. 

Sincerely, 
Tony T. 

[BIGNEWY]

Hi, 

to buy all including modules, terrains, DLC's, and campaigns is 3k+ currently. But don't buy them all, only buy what you will use and enjoy and have the spare funds for. Use the trial system on stand alone DCS to try before you buy. 

There are also some great free community mods out there to use. 

best regards

bignewy

[Dragon1-1]

Plus, there's a sale on standalone (coming soon to Steam), so it's a good time to buy modules you like at a discount. You can save a good bit on the older modules.

[BIGNEWY]

The DCS Spring Sale 2025 has already begun on our E-Shop and will run until the 23rd of March, 2025 at 23:59 GMT.

DCS Steam Edition Spring Sale 2025, which will commence on the 13th of March and end on the 20th of March 2025 at 17:00 GMT.
DCS e-shop:
https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/shop/

DCS on Steam: We will participate in the steam sale when active
https://store.steampowered.com/app/223750/DCS_World_Steam_Edition

[Tony Trout]

That's all well and good but.....that's still a lot of money just for aircraft or modules.  Plus, this forum logs me out EVERY SINGLE TIME I go to a different section and I can't get logged back in!!!!  

Edited Monday at 03:40 PM by Tony Trout

[BIGNEWY]

1 minute ago, Tony Trout said:

That's all well and good but.....that's still a lot of money just for aircraft or modules.  Plus, this forum logs me out EVERY SINGLE TIME I go to a different section and I can't get logged back in!!!!  

Check your browser settings, if you have ticked remember me when login in it should keep you logged in. It does for me on chrome.

Regarding the cost, its not about owning every module, find one you like and are interested in and fly it and master it. 

[sirrah]

37 minutes ago, Tony Trout said:

That's all well and good but.....that's still a lot of money just for aircraft or modules.  Plus, this forum logs me out EVERY SINGLE TIME I go to a different section and I can't get logged back in!!!!  

Wow.. Interesting way to react on people that try to help you...

DCS World can be downloaded and the Su-25T and TF-51D can be played for free.. how much cheaper do you want it?
Apart from that, as Bignewy mentioned, there's several free downloadable and playable user made mods that are really good (A-4E-C, UH-60L, OV-10A, just to name a few)

 

Edited Monday at 04:22 PM by sirrah

[Dragon1-1]

3 hours ago, Tony Trout said:

That's all well and good but.....that's still a lot of money just for aircraft or modules. 

You don't need to own everything. Start with one module, learn it, see if you can master it. It takes a while. Each aircraft has its own control scheme, its own quirks, and its own way of doing things. It's not like in other games, where you have shared control assignments and all aircraft operate in a similar way.

If you only buy things when they're on sale, and spread the costs out, they're manageable.

[LucShep]

As others have said, you should (definitely) not get all content at once.   That's just crazy!!

Get the one aircraft module that you've always admired/lusted the most, above all others, and build your "DCS pilot career" from there. 
You can even trial for a few days an aircraft module before buying it, then decide if it's worth it for you.

Perhaps get a terrain/map that you feel matches your preference and/or that aircraft.
Perhaps also get a campaign for it in the process, if the standard provided ones (or the free user made missions that you can download) are not enough.

You have to understand that DCS World is better understood as a common base platform for all the aircraft modules, and that each (be it fixed-wing or rotary) can almost be considered as a separate game on itself.
And then the various maps that you can add separately, to explore and fight on, can provide all kinds of different colors (figuratively, not literally) and scenarios for each module.

Chuck's DCS guides are an absolute must (more so than ones shipped with each module, IMO), a valuable learning asset to anyone investing in a full-fidelity module of DCS.
It'll take months until you become anywhere close to proficient and, even then, at times you'll probably feel as barely scratching the surface.
You learn a lot, and that's also part of the rewarding "be patient" experience.... The "hoarding of content" really isn't, that's missing the point.

Very often I feel as I tried to eat more than I can chew, I shouldn't have went with "yet another module" when I'm very, very far of being done with any that I already had.
But, hey... I'm just human, and curiosity (and ED's periodic sales with discount!) sometimes takes the best of me! LOL
 

Edited Monday at 08:18 PM by LucShep

[SharpeXB]

I started DCS 13 years ago with the A-10C on a Steam sale for $20. That money represents the greatest entertainment value of all time

[MiG21bisFishbedL]

Yeah, dive into those things you find interesting. You don't need to buy 'everything'.

[Tony Trout]

I know that I don't need to buy everything that's for sale here, but, it's something that I would like to try to attempt.  But, I'll have to do it month-by-month because as I said earlier, I live on a monthly income (I'm mildly disabled with Cerebral Palsy & Hydrocephalus and have been since birth....trust me, it's a LONG story.  I didn't finally come home from the hospitals until I was 16-months old.  And then I only got to spend about four years with my father before he passed away from a massive heart attack while he & my Mother were travelling in New York on his last/final trip home.  He was driving the rig and Mom, thankfully, got it stopped before a probably major, major accident happened.  Luckily, he had taught her how to drive the rig not long before he died.  That being said, I've not had the easiest life since then but I have a wonderful, wonderful stepfather whom I love very much who now suffers with a condition called COPD/Emphysema. 

 

@sirrah:  I honestly didn't mean to react the way I did.  I sincerely apologize to you and everyone here.  

Edited yesterday at 01:47 PM by Tony Trout

[SharpeXB]

Digesting one of these modules takes a very long time. In all likelihood even when you buy lots of them that cost is spread over many years. I’ve been playing DCS for 13 years and there are only four modern aircraft I’ve learned completely. 

[SharpeXB]

I’ve always thought about DCS this way. The aircraft themselves are the game. In other games, the game is the game. You buy a game for $70-$90 and get maybe 40 hours of entertainment out of it. Then go on and buy another one. A DCS module costs about as much but you end up getting hundreds of hours out of it. It’s not just the missions or campaigns that are the entertainment, it’s the aircraft itself. DCS is different in that way. In fact I think flight sims have actually saved me money on my gaming budget. Like again a $20 A-10 module has got me hundreds of hours of gameplay instead of buying a $70 game every few weeks. 

[Dragon1-1]

3 hours ago, Tony Trout said:

But, I'll have to do it month-by-month because as I said earlier, I live on a monthly income

That's the normal way of doing it. I went on a big binge when I started out because COVID was going around, there was a big sale and I just got my first VR headset, but even then, I didn't buy everything, just the stuff I thought I'd like. After that, it's been a steady trickle.

Oh, and don't worry about never catching up with new releases. Module development takes a long time, and even campaigns are a lot of work to create, so they come out rather slowly. Even if you do put the sim away for a while, you'll catch up faster than devs can add content. With multiplayer, it's a bit different, but there, you really have to study and learn the aircraft in order to be any good.

Edited yesterday at 05:28 PM by Dragon1-1

[MiG21bisFishbedL]

4 hours ago, Tony Trout said:

I know that I don't need to buy everything that's for sale here, but, it's something that I would like to try to attempt.  But, I'll have to do it month-by-month because as I said earlier, I live on a monthly income

That's how we all do it anyways.

Pick things up as they go. I'm actually debating grabbing the 339 since it's on sale right now.