Expensive games you used

[dueda]

Just saw the Steam price for a game Fantasy Grounds with more DLCs than Microsoft's updates: 962. If you buy the whole thing it's over $18,000.

I knew train sims were a ludophile thing, but this is insane. And I heard of a guy who spent $100,000 just to build a flight sim on his home.


I'll start: Most expensive game I bought: Mass Effect trilogy, about $130.
Money I spent on a MMO: $400.

Why, I'm cheap.

[RobertX]

I fail to recall how much I spent on my last game or, even what kind of game/when I bought.

Why, I'm cheap.

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EDIT: Actually, I lied, but I haven't bought a single game legitimately because I almost don't play games.

I do I have a stash of originals, but I'm sure it was less than $100 altogether.

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EDIT: Actually, I lied, again. When I was small, my father went to Hong Kong and bought a pirated Super Famicom device that loads games from 3.5 inch floppies and puts it in its own memory, I presume RAM. Such devices came from rival SFC pirate devices.

These disks can be copied onto other disks, but copying from cartridges to other disks will take a better area of expertise. It costed $500 CDN, I think, but you can get such devices from $200 CDN on E-Bay, among other vendors.

It's pretty cool, and what separates these devices from other pirated devices is that you can do some cheating. I haven't gotten around that, and the version I got can only load 24 Megabits even though it had the option to upgrade to 32 or 48 or-so Mb, albeit the price for upgrades is substantial for itself. It's actually one of a kind, and it's a piece of history.

That's as much as I, or my giver, got in terms of expensive games.

[Hiroven]

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I'll start: Most expensive game I bought: Mass Effect trilogy, about $130.
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Uff, I recently bought Mass Effect Trilogy since it was a game I used to play when I was younger and I really enjoyed the plot (also, when trying to pirate it several years ago, it contained virus that wiped my HDDs - the first and last I ever got). So I bought the trilogy for 10€ on sale on origin, if I recall correctly :
Otherwise I did not spend much on games, but I do buy some game from time to time when on sale (recently bought Stellaris with a bunch of other games for 15$ on Humble Bundle).

[ill88eagle]

The only games I ever paid for were fallout 1 and 2 back in the nineties and minecraft some 4 years ago. I think the total sum of my spendings amounts to less than 100 bucks. I never had any problems with virus from pirated games. In my humble opinion antivirus programs are more harmful than cracks and keygens.

[dueda]

Cool story, RobertX. You, still underage, managed to conspire to commit piracy, international contraband, counterfeit possession, and FCC violation!
Did I forget anything, besides coertion/enrolling of third-party and misdemeanor? Thats piracy to the N-degree...

So you guys mostly buy cheap, old, or promotion games on-line? I got a few GoG's but long ago, before it becoming famous. And that "plenty fish" site...
Here games were almost impossible to buy online, few people had international credit cards, and transfer services like PayPal would not accept locals.
I got my CC on a bank promotion tied to a company, then used Hotmail to create a USA-like account... Neither eBay or PayPal complained.
Now I only pirate. I'm thinking on buying again, but my pirate inner voice refutes.

[prismpeter]

I am spending 10$ on a game and I play the games daily and I have a very bad habit of playing it you can also get the games from Apple Support and you can play the  best games from there

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[RobertX]

You got me there.

It is a piece of technology, not just a way to procure games for cheap.

Well, it wasn't my choice, but I, being the man that I am, assume full responsibility (HAAHAHAHAHA, I can barely contain myself after composing that confession note).

Now, who's going to buy my Street Fighter II Turbo disk?

EDIT: Why isn't this thread in Games? Oh, yeah, penis, that's why.

[Mr.Masami]

Most expensive was probably the first half-life part that came with t-shirt and probably something more but I can't remember.
One of older friends was thinking that I'm in some kind of a sect because of the cryptic logo lol



Don't remember the price but it was surely more than plain box games.

[ill88eagle]

The spam is strong in this thread. Maybe void it? There's already one penis post...

On topic though: the way they make games today, I wouldn't spend a single pessewa on them. In the days before internet piracy I owned a C64. I copied tons of games from my friends and family. Some of those games were top notch quality gaming you could keep playing again and again. I'd happily spend money on ghost busters, maniac mansion, they stole a million and defender of the crown. Just like I used to buy books and vinyls. And it's kinda like Music. Quality it seems, is inversely proportional to technological means.

[dueda]

Wow, nice tee, MrMasami. I even forgot I got one promotion box for Tomb Raider (guess it was TR3) and another for Diablo III - Aweful game, btw.
The TR also came with a big Lara sticker. I had to buy a second one!

Guess you're mistaken, lil88Eagle; seems to me there's the producers pushing the design and development teams into their greedy decisions. Games nowadays aren't exactly top, state of the art tech, but a lot of looks and some power-hungry augmentations.