Train Simulator DLC

Well, at least is still cheaper than buying a real train...

Get Trainz instead then, it has a complete DLC pack you can buy on Bundlestars (may be finished) that's not too expensive.

I once added them all to my cart. I don't remember why, but I do remember that it was a really shitty idea...

"Anyone play TS 2015 and can shed light on why it's so expensive?" - I don't play it, but AFAIK it's so expensive because it's a niche game made for people who pay $100+ for real-life train-sets
Instead of paying $100 for "little" train set they can pay $20 and have simulated-real train.

I don't know whether this is utter bullshit or actually not really a bad thing. On one hand it's so stupid to release a DLC for each train and each track and all that, but on another hand I assume they take great care with details, each place and each train is accurate to a certain degree.

Imagine if another game did this, like Super Smash Bros, constantly release new characters and sell each one for like 2$, after a while the price of all characters would rack up to like a thousand dollars, but you'd have a choice of 500 characters to play as and you don't have to buy all of them, just the ones you want and most people rotate like 5 characters at most anyway.

In a sense, all of these DLCs for the train game are also like new games for a train fan, he doesn't want other games, he wants to keep playing his train game and he constantly gets a lot of new additions that he can buy for his game. Plus if you want to simulate trains, you don't really need all of the DLCs, you just get them if you want specific locations or trains. This isn't the case of "you need all DLCs to enjoy the full experience" like with some games that have story DLCs or missions, games like Payday 2, Borderlands 2/prequel, Saints Row 3/4 and generally any of the new games with a "season pass", which is basically a way to make your game cost 90$ without making it look like it's 90$. You're literally paying for future updates when you buy a season pass on release and that is bullshit. This might not have been too much of a problem, but by the time the final DLC releases they already lower the price of the season pass, so you pay the full price of the season pass before it has anything in it and then when it actually has stuff it's already lower in price, if anything it should've been the other way around.

Because YOLO...