How little do you spend on gaming?

Around 20-40 dollars per year. Buy like a dozen of games from 2010-2017 for almost nothing, have enough fun stuff to play around with for years. Ended up with a huge backlog of games by doing that.
 
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The last time I bought a game was back in December on Steam’s winter sale for like $20ish. It was Against the Storm and I really loved it so no regrets there. Nothing’s really caught my eye since then; not even during Steam’s summer sale. The only up and coming thing I’ll probably buy is the new Monster Hunter.

My library is so expansive these days that I’m pretty content for the most part.
 
It's down to one or two games a year, with about $10 thrown into a mobile game I like once in a great while. I have enough of a backlog I'm not concerned, and I'm heavily disillusioned with online multiplayer, so FOMO has lost its grip on me.
 
About $100 a year I reckon. I don't really buy games anymore, usually just get some subscription for when I have a pretty calm month and can play a bit. Be it gamepass, psplus or even google play pass.

Also sometimes throw a couple of shekels at some f2p games I genuinely enjoy.
Rule of thumb for that for me is if I get more enjoyment out of it for a longer time than the runtime of a movie on a regular basis(since I don't go to the cinema at all), it's worth throwing the cost of a movie ticket & snacks/drinks at that game once in a while.

With the huge caveat that I don't throw it at dumbass lootboxes & whatever I get has to have some actual value to me and not some arbitrary "283917% off! Buy this bundle for 29,99 and get 370 shitty consumables/XP boosters and one actually usable item!".
 
i buy games on steam when they are on sale...but what i really like are those stupid free horror games on itchio. i like that they take maybe half an hour to complete, i get my stupid jumpscare fix, and it didnt cost me anything. :shit-eating:
 
I pirate everything nowadays except for maybe som niche indie game when i absolutely want to support the developer.
AAA games have literally nothing that interests me anymore, its just a gray tasteless sludge made for braindead people who clap at anything.
 
i buy games, and if i were rich i'd buy more than i am nowadays. most recent game i bought was doom 2016, which was a few days ago. if i feel like the game is worth buying and i have the cash for it, i get it. if i dont, i pirate and hope i get around to buying it in the future like i did for portal 2 and alan wake 2. unless the game is something i cant pirate due to certain circumstances in which case it's the longest waiting game possible for me to get it
 
Around a 150$ a year, humble bundle times x12 a year. Humble bundle and egs store made me realize that most video games have basically zero value. Humble bundle games are around 2$ a pop, so video games are worth as little as a single chocolate bar. Paying 70$ for any video game is ridiculous when it will be given out for free or pennies on the dollar in under a year.
 
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The only games i buy are niche Early Access deckbuilders that have no pirate release. So around $50 per year? Around that number. Everything else gets pirated.

Edit: I do buy titles from series i like (really only the RGG games left) on release at full price if they have Denuvo protection, so bump up the yearly amount to ~$120 if it's a year with a new Yakuza game release.
Arthur Morgan said:
There's really nothing on the horizon that I HAVE to play, which is a shame. I miss that old anticipation for a new title coming soon.
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They really killed that feeling dead, i agree it's a shame. I thought for the longest time that i just aged out of the hobby and that's why i can't get hyped for new releases, but nah, games are mostly just shit. I still get that old feeling when playing actually good games, which has become very rare sadly, LAD2 and Rogue Trader being the only ones in recent memory.
 
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Around 100 USD or less a year. This includes my gacha money as well as the odd game that comes out and I like, which is few and far between.
 
Calandrino said:
2024 to date: $387.36 + tax
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$774.61 now. This exceeds my original goal of $0.00 by $774.61. Certain unforeseeable events and circumstances transpired that made the original target unrealistic in hindsight. I will set a new target of $0.00 for 2025. I believe that I can begin ensuring that this new target will remain achievable by buying whatever I want before EOY 2024.
 
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SSj_Ness (Yiffed) said:
You're good at tracking your spending. I definitely spend less than that, probably less than $500.
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Whoops, I missed a shipping charge and one other thing, now I'm at $803.71.

I've only tracked it like this for the past year. I thought it would be fun to see how much it tallies up to in a whole year; it turns out, it is actually not that fun.
 
augment said:
I took one hard look at my spending habits and came to realize my latest purchases were exclusively compilations or re-releases of decades-old games.
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Pretty much what I’ve done. Ever since i bought my Steamdeck, i’ve been buying either compilations and re-releases the past several months. Here’s what i bought

Capcom Marvel vs Capcom collection
Contra anniversary collection
Kingpin reloaded
Forza 4 (because it’s about to be delisted)
Devil May Cry HD collection
Crazy Taxi
Double Dragon trilogy
Castlevania Anniversary collection
Yakuza 0
Crysis Remastered
Castlevania Lords of Shadow
 
Nintendo’s $60 games used to be a money sink for me but I’ve bought probably three games from them in the last two years. Other than that, I always manage to spend at least 30 bucks during major Steam sales and never spend more than $15 on a single games unless I’m very confident of its quality.
 
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