What was the most expensive purchase you've ever made for a game?

How much have you've played the game so far? What's your thoughts on it?

I'm sorry, but the shirt must be cool! 😃

0.15BTC is now £5410.75. I think you beat everybody on this thread. 😅

bought counter strike complete pack for 0.05 BTC back in the days ;_;

Oh man, that's a shame. I want to play Evil Genius. I've not jumped on it at launch because of my backlog and I'm the same. I will only spend on release for a game if I am a fan of the franchise and I can afford it.

Well, not necessarily a steam purchase but the pre-order for NFS Heat when it was first announced.
I was so hyped for the game to release just to realize that the drift mechanics felt so weird and my shitty PC at the time could barely run it at the lowest setting on 30FPS (lol). What's worse is that I only played the game for a few days before getting fed up with how badly it ran before leaving it to collect digital dust, which basically meant that I might as well should just wait for when it inevitably goes on sale for 70 goddamn percent off on Steam only 1 year after release with the DLCs all included as that is around the time I started playing again. Not the most expensive purchase I've ever made I guess (I've spent more on some other games...looking at you, CSGO and League lol), but it is pretty "expensive" in that it really made me regret the purchase. On a brighter side, this is what sealed the deal for me to never pre-order anything ever again.

Need for speed has been a dear series for me in my youth. I wan to play the most recent ones from Need from Speed until today. I've never been a fan of the Shift ones. I liked the basic story behind it and the police chaces. It was a good time for me as a kid playing NFS Most Wanted, Carbon, Undercover and Underground 2.

Completely unrelated to the topic but an interesting story with NFS Heat--when I logged back on to my Origin account again it appeared to be hacked by some Russian dude, but everything--the email, password, etc--remained the same, and the person who hacked my account did not touch any other of my Origin games EXCEPT FOR NFS Heat where he tossed in 300+ hours playing it (I had about 12 hours of playtime before quitting the game in 2019 lol). When I started up NFS Heat, the person who hacked my account has basically every single vehicle in the game and had maxed out everything with some modding tools, which made my life easy. However I didn't play the game at all and I want the full experience so I wiped the data and started all over again. To this day I still feel kinda bad to not only completely change my Origin account's password but also delete 300+ hours of his saved data, even though I am the one who got hacked hahahaha

You made someone else enjoy your game. Totally worth it! He should have e-mailed you and say thanks! 🤣 If only hackers would hack accounts to play your games and not actually sell it and make profit of of it. That's an amazing story never the less.

I gotta admit, as a LotR fan, I would have probably made such an sacrifice and get one too. It's a shame the game is so outdated at this point. If only a newer version would come out, I'm pretty sure fans of the series would have loved it. Including myself.

I have the game in my library, but I don't know if I'd ever play it sadly. The reviews are very positive for the game, which isn't surprising, because it's probably the most expanded lore game around Middle Earth.

How did you find the 3rd one? Also, did you play Mass Effect 1 and Andromeda?

Oh 😕 I've moved as well, but luckily I've never had an issue with that as I was able to pack well my stuff. I'm sorry to hear that you couldn't find your console and other accessories.

Please go back and revisit the game once you get a better PC. It's a great game!

That's awesome! I don't remember having the ability to buy music at the store back then, related to games. Maybe I wasn't really interested in that aspect. 😮

A clear reason why I didn't buy anymore old CoD was because they kept the same spicy prices for it. My last CoD was Black Ops 1. I loved the series, but I knew it's a vicious cycle that once you play the series, you'll want to play the rest and spend hundreds on the collection. I plan on getting the games slowly, but it's not urgent. Even on an discount £10 it's not worth it for me for a game as old as 10-15 years old game.

You don't like spending money on more expensive games? Or is it because you've been budgeting your money tightly?

I've not played any of the CoD since Black Ops 1. Was it such a bad game? I look back at Battlefield 2042 and I think Vanguard is a lot better.

The game is on my list, is it worth it?

Please tell me you could fix that stuff. 😱

Same, I need to decide really carefully if I want to buy a game clean outside a bundle. That's recent for me, started about 3 years ago.

You reminded me of Clannad, I wishlisted it. I cried watching the anime, I need a visual novel that hits me in the feels. 😅

Unreal Tournament was an awesome game. I remember going to Internet Coffee to play it with my friends. Memories I'll never forget. 👍🏻

Most expensive video game bought for me is Assassin's Creed Origins - Gold Edition 17,99€, completed game 100% and spent 132 hours in it, so i guess it was worth it for me :)

My personal favorite AC game. What is yours? I've spent additional time on the game, because of my exploration part. I absorbed that game really well.

The most expensive game ever bought is kickstarter for board game Northgard: Uncharted Lands, 70€ game plus 20€ shipping. At first expected was delivery July 2021 and i still haven't got a game, they post regular updates so far and if everything goes as planned i should get it hopefully in June this year :D One thing i still don't know though is if my government will add some taxes to the costs and how much :D

I hope not. Did you play the game on Steam?

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Without a doubt man!

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I think it would be either the pre-order for Kingdom Hearts III or pre-order for Batman: Arkman Knight, both for Playstation 4. Can't remember which one was more expensive, but surely my most expensive purchase is one of those. They're also the only games I've pre-ordered in my life.

I remember pre-ordering Kingdom Hearts III really long time before it was released (since it kept getting delayed) and I had actually forgotten about placing the order by the time it actually came to me. I wasn't too upset about it, but considering I still haven't managed to play the game I definitely could've cancelled the order and just buy it cheaper later. ^^;

Never actually played the series, but I get it that it had it's fanbase because the game franchise is fun and the story is good.

Batman: Arkham Knight I decided to pre-order because I had loved the previous games and Knight looked amazing, and the pre-order bonus seemed worth it. I'm beyond ashamed to admit that I also still haven't played this game, so it was definitely a waste of money purchase..

Don't beat yourself, because while doing this thread, I realized I've spent £34.99 on New World and I've not even played it yet. The queue issue really ruined my mood. By the time it kind got fixed, I lost interest. I could not refund my game because 4.8 hrs I've spent in queues. Amazon did the same stuff with Lost Ark, but at least that game is free now.

I haven't made such a purchase but I still wanted to mention that I have occasionally considered buying 'Deadpool' like that. Really upset that I missed the short window of time that it was back on Steam, because I surely would've bought it then. I'm not really going to buy it from a key-shop, I don't want to support the gray market, but sometimes I have entertained the thought for a minute before returning to reality.

That's exactly what I was thinking about. Deadpool and Alpha Protocol are 2 games I want to get my hands on.

Ps. I love how balanced the poll is! Don't see a lot of that. :D

You're right. 🤣

My vote for "No, I've played this game a lot and was totally worth it 😄" just balanced the poll out at exactly 50/50

I didn't realized how that ended up like that, but it makes sense lol. There's a mix feeling there.

The most I ever spent on a single game was for DDO (Dungeons and Dragons Online). I think in total I spent around £120 on that game over the course of maybe 3 or 4 years. I played it in the late 00's and early 10's until one random day I just stopped playing, uninstalled it, and I never played it again since. I decided at the time not to ever play an MMO again, then about a year later I got Guild Wars 2 as an early xmas present and ended up sinking thousands of hours into that over the course of about 5 years before it got a little stale and I spent less time playing it. After expansion 2 came out I decided not to buy it and have never really played it much since. Crazy to think that 2nd expansion was 5 years ago now and it just got a new 3rd expansion finally. I watched a Live Let's Play for it instead of buying it, much cheaper.

I'm surprised there's a lot of people who played Guild Wars 2 and are part of this community. I did expect more ESO and WOW players, but there's a lot of GW2 players here. 🙌🏻

I think they took too much time to release major content, that kinda made me stop playing, because I got the game on release date and I managed to get quickly to highest level and just did events and PVP.

I think the most I spent on a non-MMO game in recent years was in 2020 at the start of the pandemic when I decided it was time to buy the latest copy of Football Manager for around £25 and I spent a few months really into that. I am also quite addicted to playing Asphalt 9 on my mobile for the past year or so and started to buy the Legend Pass for it and have spent roughly £60 on it so far. I don't think I will spend much more on it though as it is starting to bore me a little finally and I have way too many games in my Steam backlog that I should really start to play. I started Max Payne 3 finally a couple months ago, got about half way then stopped and haven't played it since due to being busy. I really want to complete it before playing anything else. Too many games, too little time.

I know the feeling, my backlog is just as big and I feel there's little time, not because I couldn't play them, but because I'm starting to become an perfectionist and try to complete the games to 100%. I'm currently playing Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair as I won it on the giveaways here, and the title is not misleading, to get the game to 100% you have to go in the end mission in a suicidal run for 30 minutes to fight the boss 4 times and through some brutal . Yesterday I wasted 4-5 hours doing the run and could only managed to complete 67% of it. I'm about to reach the 100 attempt lol. It's the hardest game I've ever played of this type. Even Super Meat Boy was more possible when I first played it and because of my stupid will to get it to 100%, I spend too much time with some games that aren't really worth my time.

This one?

You became more careful of your spending's in digital format as I can see.