Rail Simulater For £14.99

[markjudith]

MTS, Railsimulator and Trainz (although the content downloading method is naff) are well worth the money in my opinion..........I have had thousands of hours entertainment with them.......and the add ons....they should be put in comparison with models...look at what you would pay for a new 00 gauge loco and if you like 0 gauge.. So I think the respective sims are well worth it.

[AndiS]

That's what stuns me all the time -- for a game, you may say 30 is much and 15 is ok, but for a railway hobby item, 30 is one good book or one wagon, not more. It is a pity that still so many people struggle with squeezing a single mile of track into their attic of spare room, when you can have hundreds of them for so little money. Ok, you must learn to love a computer, but must people have to anyway. And even if you buy a new one just for this hobby, the cost is not unjustifiable.

[Easilyconfused]

That's what stuns me all the time -- for a game, you may say 30 is much and 15 is ok, but for a railway hobby item, 30 is one good book or one wagon, not more.

Couldn't agree more. I see people here spending hundreds of pounds on PCs capable of running the simulators well and then loads more on digital cameras to take some very nice photos and travelling around all over the place to take photos.

Then when asked to stump up a little bit of cash for a fully functioning version of Winzip they spend countless hours looking for a free alternative and then complain when it can't do spanned zips or use some other functionality

My N gauge layout is still in the pre-track laying stage but I already have a number of engines at £30 - 75 each and that is just the start .......

[decapod]

Sorry guys, my post about waiting for the bargain bin is really only half the story.
The main problem is I don't have time to faff around with all the effort required to get stuff working in the sim and don't have time to play with it.
No need to buy something I'm not going to use.
(Plus I would rather wait for TS2)
I have the expensive PC and the half built N gauge layout too.

[Easilyconfused]

I have the expensive PC and the half built N gauge layout too.

Same here - I have a very nice PC and a good selection of N Gauge waiting to be constructed. I must say your N Gauge looks very nice though from the other posts you made about it.

My comments were of a more general nature and not directed at anyone in particular.

[Garthion]

I don't have the expensive PC yet, but got a copy of RS 2 weeks ago for dead on £15 from one of the Game Stores in Birmingham city center, next to the bull ring. now all I have to do is get my PC upgraded to run the thing


(just had a LOL moment as I typed "to ruin the thing" accidentally but noticed it )

Got to wait 'till late June until I have enough money to upgrade this computer, but I can wait a bit longer

[jbilton]

I'm still waiting for it to get to the £5 bargain bins - though it's almost tempting at £15.

You've got to time it just right though Paul.
As EA will stop pressing the CDs at some point, then High St / on-line retailers will do final reductions......... and then it'll be gone.
However, if there is the continued support as promised, second hand prices will slowly start to rise.
Now the real question, which we won't get answered, is how many units a month is EAs cut off.
How well did the USA sale go.
Last year I predicted April would be the watershed..........based on quarterly figures becoming available, to those that make these decisions.

Cheers
Jon

[RSderek]

Hi,
What has EA got to do with RSDL supporting Rail Simulator?
So here we are in April....

regards
Derek

[AndiS]

You've got to time it just right though Paul.
As EA will stop pressing the CDs at some point, then High St / on-line retailers will do final reductions......... and then it'll be gone.
However, if there is the continued support as promised, second hand prices will slowly start to rise.

Its always fun to have a crisis coming your way, if only a "KRS no more available" crisis. I have no idea who produces all these MSTS CDs, but someone must send lots of them to shops, because after so many years you can still buy some, and at a lower price than KRS.

However, a crisis is half as much fun without the accompanying conspiracy theory, so how about this one: RSDL will profit from a shortage of secondhand copies on Ebay. Then, they can make good money on a few boxes they keep in the cellar for exactly for this occasion. Or maybe it is not the company, but the employees. Maybe they are forced to take their pay in copies of the game instead of cash and now they all wait for a raise in the Ebay quotes, hungrily, because they need food. Or they do get cash, and buy in copies at Ebay at the current quote, knowing that the next patch will push the price back up to £20.

The sad thing with such theories is that they do not work if EA does the same old, stubborn thing that all companies do: sell, sell, sell, until the last one and his relatives have their copy. Then wait a little, then start again, with a new bargain offer. I have no idea who earns what when you buy a copy of MSTS for less than £10, but something must motivate all those who take part in the distribution chain to keep going.

[growler37]

Hi
I think Its really unfair to be critical of KRS if you have never tried it! or had tried it but your pc specs were not up to minimum requirements.
Krs will run on quite a wide range of PC, that makes it an attractive proposition,along with the very easy world editor, thousands of contented KRS users are beavering away making routes and models dispite the few doom and gloom merchants that crop up from time to time when an opening for RS bashing presents itself! but RS is flourishing, also with KRS being a uk based unit, it looks like UK content will be plentifull in the future.
with TS2 still a couple of years off,and with its USA bias, not to mention the huge pc specs that will be needed to run it, and with a game price tag probably over £50 thats a large outlay"or it is to me".
but maybe in 5/6 years time i might pull TS2 out of the bargain basket and give it a try.
kevin

[RiscaStation]

...or it could be that they have so much stock (seeing as the demand is so high), that they can offer a very low price. The age old concept of buy in bulk - Stack it high / sell it cheap.

Hi
I think it is more in keeping with its true worth. Even then its over priced for what it is. The forums should be read to get a better understanding of how purchasers feel about RS. The feelings expressed are pretty common place across most forums here and abroad.
Lets put aside the continual rant over biscuits and come up with something constructive eg; getting the game to perform properly would be a good start.
Perhaps I should accept the fact that Kuju, EA and the Rail Simulator fall guys have done the best with what they got.
I like many are already looking across the Pond for inspiration and expectation of a proper Simulator.

Regards

[RSderek]

Hi, there will be more news on Mk2 upgrade soon.

regards
Derek

[david3232]

I found it for 14.52 on Amazon only 47p cheaper though which you can find on the ground, but as tescos says "every little helps"

[david3232]

new one for £13.44
and the pre-owned is the most expensive of all of them at £17.50

all + £1.99 shipping

[RSderek]

Anyone buying it for that price has to pay me before I respond to their posts!