asanal wrote on Sep 1^st, 2012 at 3:24am:

Mark & CoolP, Ok... I will try. Will I purchase $9 per month packages? :D

I do not know if there is any limit to how long you must initially sign on for the monthly use (as in a minimum of say, 3 or 6 months).
I was reading in another forum, that someone said they (Lockheed Martin) do not really care if you buy the P3D Academic license ($USD49.95), even though you may not actually qualify for the "Academic license". Do not take my word on that as don't know how true it is.

I look at it like this:

Order Date: Saturday 12 August, 2006
Products
1 x      Microsoft Flight Simulator X Deluxe Edition DVD
Technical support with this product, please contact Microsoft.	$69.95
Zone Based Shipping Rates (FedEx 1-3 Day Express Delivery):	$29.25
Total:	$99.20

All prices are US dollars and was back when the Aussie dollar was way down on the US Dollar (0.7666360012 per Aussie dollar), so I actually paid $AUD139.40 for FSX Deluxe, including shipping from USA and FSX Acceleration cost me $AUD49.95 (bought locally).
So I forked out $AUD189.35 for FSX/Acceleration, so $USD199 for LM Prepar3d is not too bad a price for it. It was worth it in my opinion. ;)