How little do you spend on gaming?

Theres barely been anything worth buying, I guess I average maybe $60 a year. I also pirate everything.

only thing i've purchaded this year was the riftbreaker expansion and deep rock galactic survivor.
 
last year i bought robocop and the last games i will ever pay full price are gta 6 and metal gear delta. last year i built a new pc that will probably last me 10 years just like the old one did
 
Probably spend $75 on various Steam Sales throughout the year. I might buy a single Switch game in that time frame.
 
Most stuff I just emulate (goes without saying a lot of it is older stuff I played growing up). I think the most I've spent this year was $60 on a new xbox pad since the adapter I used for my switch one broke (tried repairing it, but it just wouldn't hold). I've only ever built a single PC myself, which is the one I'm on, and with any luck it'll take me a decade to work it into the ground before I need to build another. As far as games go, it's not often I pick up new releases anymore. There are a couple I'm looking forward to, but I definitely don't follow release schedules as closely as I did way back in my teens.
 
There has been absolutely no shortage of interesting modern games for me, even when I've been essentially limiting myself to a Nintendo Switch in these last few years, with the rare PC release every blue moon (which were Earth Defense Force 6 and Lies of P this year).

I have no problem with paying games full-price if I want to play them right now while I get overly cautious to not fall into the trap of sales (it depends of my current backlog and how frequent a title in my wishlist gets a price cut). I rarely do pay things in euro currency though but far more commonly in the yen instead.
 
The only game related stuff that I bought this year was

Pillars 1 and 2
Disco Elysium
Gothic 1
Gothic 2
Gothic 3
Rogue Trader

All on sale this puts me at I think 50 dollars for the year at the most. I have no plans on buying anything else for awhile. These plus emulation plus games I already own will keep me quite busy for awhile.
 
I spend very little. I buy one game from each Steam sale. But given my hardware I'm running out of games to play that aren't VNs. I like VNs and all. But I have to wait for console sales for newer games. On PC I can't play much beyond Memories of Celceta. That's pretty much my ceiling. I also don't have much hard drive space. I can just uninstall things I'm not playing. But then I don't have many games ready to go.

TheLostMarxBrotherFucko said:
New consoles are garbage and all the new games are either shitty remakes or woke garbage or weeaboo shit.
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The coom. A lot of games had fanservice back in the day. But it was milder. You mean to tell me that you can't sell enough copies of a game unless there's big anime tiddies spilling out of ridiculous outfits in every shot? We went from the obligatory sexy character to badly proportioned tits and ass everywhere. I've seen people complain about the Atelier series. Ryza 2's yeast infection booty shorts are comical looking. I think it all started with Iris 3. The excuse being "She's dressed that way because it's a hot climate". Ok. But the borderline retarded bimbo character is 15 and you could serve Thanksgiving dinner on her cleavage.

Excuse my autism. I just got stuck on the weeaboo thing. Because these days it seems more about coom than ever before. I think I buy less of the anime style games now because they look terrible and the fanservice makes me roll my eyes. It's so over the top.
 
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Dysnomia said:
Excuse my autism. I just got stuck on the weeaboo thing. Because these days it seems more about coom than ever before. I think I buy less of the anime style games now because they look terrible and the fanservice makes me roll my eyes. It's so over the top.
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I dunno what universe you live on but I'd strongly argue that Japanese console games are rather severely lacking in the perverted (ecchi) and fanservice department these days compared to the Playstation Vita and prior eras.

Then again I suppose we can largely thank americans and their anglo cousins for imposing their puritan values and virtue-signaling everywhere. It started against the cartoony Japanese games essentially meant for Japanese teens at first, but even the adult titles like the Dead Rising remake aren't exempt either.
 
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The most recent game I've played is Cyberpunk 2077. I bought my Series X and that game on sale last Christmas. I haven't spent a dime on gaming since then, and I've gone back to playing BF1 and Hunt: Showdown. I bought both of those games years ago.

Averaged out over the last 10-15 years, I've probably spent roughly $100 per year. Most modern games are utter shit and nobody is making the stuff that I want to play, so I just stick with the older stuff. The one exception is Space Marine 2 which looks like a worthy successor to the first game.
 
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In a similar vain, Ive recently had some luck with videogames from local libraries. Its a smaller selection, but no need to commit, especially if youre likely to not replay a beaten game.
 
I've spent slightly more this year than usual at about 80$ up until now because a couple of games that were a good fit for my old HighSchool RL friendgroup came out and we coop together about once a week.
Helldivers 2, Chained together, Outlast Trials, Palworld and we also got Deep rock galactic on sale.
 
I buy maybe one game a year. Typically some kind of sandbox-y indie game. My last bigger purchase was DayZ, before that it was Space Engine.
 
I spend so much time with Blender, it makes my Postal 2 playtime look like a joke.
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Buy the first page of any decent sale and youll have 80% of games worth buying. Set the limit to sub $35 and you got most of them.

I dont recall last I read a review. Discount size alone speaks volumes of the confidence of the developer. 10%? Up their own ass, probably japanese. 30-60%? Probably an aged game of 7/10 Platinum Games quality. 70-80, several times a year? Likely worth trying out if above 80% positive and on the first page of the sale.

I realized the reason I dont "have any games to play" is cause my library is more or less the same as a decade ago. I buy a new game, beat it, hide it, and once again stare at the same mainstays.
 
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Used to spend a lot on games as I used to be big on collecting, not so much anymore. Its much easier to just maintain a decent computer that can emulate/run damn near anything and keep everything on external SSD's. When I was collecting, it wasn't unheard of for my dumb ass to drop $300+ a month going to various retro stores and grabbing anything that caught my eye.

Now I'm very picky if I'll spend money or pirate something. Really depends on a lot of factors like price, how old the game is, whats on offer for having an offical copy, if I hate the company, and so on. Dropping $10 on the Doom 1 + 2 rerelease is no biggie because you got a new episode pack that may as well be "Doom 3 if it came out in the DOS era" and the ability to just drop into deathmatch and co-op games through lobbies, finally. All that content for $10 is a steal, and its fucking Doom, I know I'll have fun and get more than my moneys worth.

Capcom makes some good games (Monster Hunter), but I don't take kindly to a company loudly and proudly shoving faggots in drag in your face during a particular game reveal. I either pirate their games outright or find them on places like G2A for the price of dirt. If its greymarket, theres a very good chance the developer got fucked out of the key for that copy you purchased, so they're not seeing a cent off you for it. Its scummy for sure, but I feel its a bit more insulting to shitty companies to pay the nigger robbing them pennies on the dollar that they'll never see, than just outright pirating it at times.

Then you got shit like Elden Ring where I'll just be stuck with a pirated copy. Its 2 years old, going on 3, and the base game is still $60 for a fucking DIGITAL COPY with a $40 expansion. Even on G2A its still around $70-$85 for the whole package, but even if it was cheaper there, I'd still want to buy it through Steam because good developers should be getting what they earned.

On average, I'm down to $30-$40 a month. Drop a $5 in my wallet every payday so I can make card packs, and maybe pickup a wishlist game or a G2A game if they're dirt cheap at the moment. Throw $10 every now and then to Pokemon GO so I can do some raids, but thats about it. I have plenty of games on Steam, and literal thousands from damn near every console on harddrives, aint no sense in blowing all my money on games anymore.
 
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