• mriswith@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    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

    • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      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.