I also pro-rate the value of my games like this. For instance, Helldivers 2: paid $39.99 (€35,76), played 537 hours. That’s $0.001 (€0,0012) or 1/10th of a cent per hour of play. Even if I add $2000 (€1.788,61) for the PC I play on that still only comes to $3.79 (€4.24) an hour.
Hard to beat that price per hour of entertainment.
My Steam spend over the lifetime of my account comes to $25 (€27,97) a month which is a decent monthly entertainment cost. Of course that doesn’t account for additional spending on other entertainment but putting the total spent amount in perspective is definitely good to do, so thanks for pointing that out for those who need it.
For context, my account is over 15 years old, it has over $6k spent, and almost all of that is in the last decade. And it still comes out to under $50 a month, with thousands of hours played across a bunch of games.
For comparison, I know people who spend much more on their hobbies with car, bicycle, home theater equipment, etc. each year
I also have an old account with ~$6,000 USD on it. I don’t worry about it so much. Also, I don’t think it includes when a game was purchased on sale, because on my account I have one of the Star Wars mega bundles that came with like 20 classic Star Wars games, but it says it was like $220 or something. I absolutely bought it when it was on sale, and not when it was full priced, because that money would fund Disney and I don’t want to fund Disney any more than I feel is absolutely necessary. So some of the prices may not be reliable with what was actually spent. (After manually adding up the purchase, I only spent ~$59 USD on the bundle which I bought in 2018).
By comparison, I have put ~$10,000 USD into my car, with $7,000 on the engine alone. So seeing the $6,000 might have been scary initially, but given the value of the dollar, I am kinda surprised the number wasn’t bigger.
Also, my account is old enough that it doesn’t include anything from before 2016? or some year like that.
I also pro-rate the value of my games like this. For instance, Helldivers 2: paid $39.99 (€35,76), played 537 hours. That’s $0.001 (€0,0012) or 1/10th of a cent per hour of play. Even if I add $2000 (€1.788,61) for the PC I play on that still only comes to $3.79 (€4.24) an hour.
Hard to beat that price per hour of entertainment.
My Steam spend over the lifetime of my account comes to $25 (€27,97) a month which is a decent monthly entertainment cost. Of course that doesn’t account for additional spending on other entertainment but putting the total spent amount in perspective is definitely good to do, so thanks for pointing that out for those who need it.
Edit: added € costs
For context, my account is over 15 years old, it has over $6k spent, and almost all of that is in the last decade. And it still comes out to under $50 a month, with thousands of hours played across a bunch of games.
For comparison, I know people who spend much more on their hobbies with car, bicycle, home theater equipment, etc. each year
I also have an old account with ~$6,000 USD on it. I don’t worry about it so much. Also, I don’t think it includes when a game was purchased on sale, because on my account I have one of the Star Wars mega bundles that came with like 20 classic Star Wars games, but it says it was like $220 or something. I absolutely bought it when it was on sale, and not when it was full priced, because that money would fund Disney and I don’t want to fund Disney any more than I feel is absolutely necessary. So some of the prices may not be reliable with what was actually spent. (After manually adding up the purchase, I only spent ~$59 USD on the bundle which I bought in 2018).
By comparison, I have put ~$10,000 USD into my car, with $7,000 on the engine alone. So seeing the $6,000 might have been scary initially, but given the value of the dollar, I am kinda surprised the number wasn’t bigger.
Also, my account is old enough that it doesn’t include anything from before 2016? or some year like that.
One could probably also factor in hardware costs. But over years it may not be as bad as suspected like you’re expressing.