Is the $1,800 worth of DLC for Railworks 3: Train Simulator 2012 worth it?

its better to buy them in Summer Camp // Christmas deals

The DLCs were way cheaper during the winter sale so you might want to wait for the summer sale! proof

You're not supposed to buy all of them. You're supposed to go "Oh I like that one and that one". Owning them all would be pointless. There are so many that you wouldn't be able to try them all even if you wanted to.

I remember one thread on 4chan (/v/ actually) where users were discussing about winter sale and how everything is insanely cheap so it would be a good idea to buy Railworks. Then some dude posted "oh too bad i bought it before winter sale but what the hell" and he actually showed his Steam receipt with transaction of Railworks 3 + all dlc's, i think it was something over 1500$. So yeah, those people exist

Mass Effect Series: $60 + $60 + $60 + ($20 DLC) = ~$200 (according to someone in an ME3 thread)
Call of Duty Series: > $199 (Rough total cost of the games I own (on Steam, not including my Wii Call of Duty 3))

For $200, you can get Railworks + 8 DLCs at $19.99 each. This is much more than anyone really needs.

For anyone who wants to complain that I'm not comparing like with like, lets compare TF2:
How much would it cost to buy every single Hat, Map, Weapon, Taunt and Noisemaker from the Mann Co. Store? More than $1800? Yup!

I lolled so hard...

I like trains.

You know, i was always really damned curious about stuff like Train or Farm simulator. I mean - who wasn't? I just can't figure out who is the target audience for these games.
I'm kinda tempted to buy it now.

Is that even a question?

If you have to ask, you will never know.

Buy it !

I think you're supposed to buy only the trains you wanna play with.

Of course, it has trains.

Worth it? Hell ye it is, the competitive scene is huge.
Just make sure you play No Railz only servers and not some easy mode scrub Steam servers.
All the pro's use Diesel trains anyway for that multitrack drifting.

See for yourself.

Opened a topic about the exact same thing without looking here first, soory :P

Some people would spend thousands of dollars in collecting items that have no real use or that they might not even intend on using; at the very least not all of them. If you're collecting stamps you can't use them or else you... obviously got rid of it/them. If you're collecting lamps, then you can't possibly use them all at once. Some people even keep their prized items in their boxes and never open them.

It boils down to whether or not you see it as something worthwhile. If trains were my passion I would consider it but knowing that the technology for the simulation would eventually become better and more precise I would personally find it hard to spend that much on something that would become obsolete.

I guess another way to look at it would be as follow:
When you go out with friends, go on a vacation, go ski, etc. The money you spend on those activities are a one time use only. Even if a better newer simulator came out you CAN still play the older version. It can be played for countless hours and eventually make your money worthwhile.

So yes 1800$ is a lot if you play 5 hours total, but if you play it for hundreds of hours suddenly the cost is more justifiable.

Also, as movac said; it's a whole lot cheaper than building the equivalent model train set.
I'd even add that you need a lot of room for that.

As someone who actually owns the Train Simulator (I won it here) I have to say that it's a lot less boring than it might seem at first. The game is actually quite challenging if you want to make all of the goals. Sure just getting from A to B isn't hard (unless you manage to derail yourself), but getting there on time, picking up all the passengers/cargo on the way, and not breaking any speed limits requires you to know all about the train you're driving, the layout of the track, and the weather conditions. It gets even more complex when you're driving a steam train and you have to keep an eye on shit like pressure and temperature in order not to (literally) run out of steam. Besides all that, it's actually kinda relaxing just to drive in first-person view through the different environments in your choo-choo and not give a fuck about anything.

I'm not saying it's a great game and everyone should go and buy it right now, because it's obviously a very niche game. But if trains are your niche, I can very well imagine it being worth spending money on the base game and the few DLC packs you're interested in. As said by others before me, there's no point in buying ALL the DLC because you'll end up with more trains than you'll ever drive. You just get the base game and maybe the DLC that has your favorite train and/or favorite track and that's more than enough.

As someone who is an HO train enthusiast, LEGO train enthusiast, and lover of trains overall, I fucking love the Train Simulator games. Like everyone else though, I agree that the insane amount of separate DLC is overkill.

i always thought that gabe would come to your house personally if anyone would buy the full pack...

You know, 3D artists want to eat, too. Someone making guns for TF2 might live off a few cents per gun sold in TF store due to huge amount of people buying them, but train is far bigger investment of time and research and buyer base is much smaller, so...

TL/DR - Basic rule of economy, demand is low, supply expensive = high prices.

It's just like a real-life model train set. Obviously you wouldn't buy EVERY piece of train stuff (tracks, extra trains, scenery, props, etc.) so in this case it is the same way.

Definetly not worth that much for some new trains