Hi and welcome back to another random question.

Today's topic is quite simple: What was the most expensive purchase you've ever made? This could be a collection you've bought at a really pricy time because you couldn't contain yourself not to buy it or you could mention a game you've bought that maybe is no longer on Steam and had to buy it on a key-shop or something.

My personal one is The Sims 4 with all it's expansions. I've bought pretty much every major update until Cottage Living (which I didn't even play yet - lol).

Anyway, what was yours?

The price for ALL the expansions is £515.08, without the game, that costs £35. I didn't pay that much, but I've paid for sure £150. 😨

Update: I came to the realization that I've spent a lot more in League of Legends, which is no surprise. I have played that game for more than 4 seasons, that's about 4 years, every single day, if I could. Based on my calculations I've spent £231.55. 😳😅

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Do you regret paying so much

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Yes, it was a lot of money 😭
No, I've played this game a lot and was totally worth it 😄

I payed like 60$ for rocket league just to play on steam

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It has to be worth it! Right? 🤔 I can see how that may be a lot of money in INR. 4,559.73 INR, is a lot of money considering the situation in India.

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Not really i payed in tf2 keys which were probably more cost effective and yeah it was totally worth it i had 200+ hours on epic and if i could get that on steam it would be worth the price (rocket league is around 400-500$ for a steam key on grey market) so yeah it was well worth the money

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Oh, because it's not anymore on Steam Store. 😮 I had no idea, when it was taken down, as I've never played it.

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Yup hence the price and it was worth it i already have 22 hours on steam :D

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Yeah, but I'd never consider buying it on Steam for anything over $100, no matter if I badly want it, unless I don't like money and I just wanna throw them away. 🤣

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well anything over 100 is too much but since this was a like very much thing for me i didnt mind spending it :)

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Truth!

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Holy shit! It's worth that much nowadays?!
Man, I got it in a bundle for $12 back in the day, maybe I should have bought a second key and kept it for later.

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yeahh lmao worth too much i was lucky i got for 60

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I bought a used VR set to play Half-Life Alyx. I'd say it was worth it

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What type of VR headset was it?

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Acer WMR. I found it to be somewhat glitchy and my prescription glasses got in the way, so I didn't play other VR games much

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They look tat are capable of kinda giving you a good reading of your surrounding with the external cameras. I'm sorry to hear that it's somewhat difficult for you. I always wanted a VR headset, but I'd rather go with Valve Index or an Meta Quest.

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Spent the most on World of Warcraft over the years, been playing since mid-BC.
As a single purchase, I'd say BF3 or X-COM 2 they were in the 30-40$ range not sure exactly at the moment of buy.

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X-COM 2 keeps hitting now $10-15 discounts, but considering the time I've spent with it, I don't see why $30-40 wouldn't be worth it. It's a great game.

I'd say that an online game or something that keeps you for hours is worth the price. Because you spend a lot of time with it than a game you finish and put it aside and never play it again.

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I'd say all 3 are totally worth it, I spent a lot of time with them, and was a lot of fun
Sims is a great game too :)

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I totally agree! 👍🏻

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The yearly DOTA 2 The International Battle Pass.

Got 2 Roshan Statue and 3 Mini Aegis Trophy sent to my home for the battle pass level I got.
I don't dare to count how much I've spent on that :/

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A Trophy is awesome man! I mean look at it! If this isn't awesome, idk what it is. I wish League of Legends would have sent something like that to players.

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Yakuza: Like a Dragon, around £45, with Forza Horizon 4 Ultimate edition a close second. Didn't regret either.

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Forza Horizon really likes to keep it's prices solid. Has it had any good discounts?

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Yes, I would say so. https://steamdb.info/app/1293830/
I got it during last year's summer sale, around 60% off.

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It's hard for me to wrap my head around a game still being £30 after such a discount. I guess I'm trying to compare it with the complexity of Red Dead Redemption 2 or something similar. Not saying it isn't worth it, I'm just seeing how some games have a higher price than I would normally pay for that type of genre of game.

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NBA2k16 from a keyshop $27, I heard it's one of the best 2k games and I really wanted it. It's probably my 3rd most played game behind Skyrim or Witcher 3.

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I've not played any NBA games since 2006. The most recent ones aren't worth it for new players?

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I've spent a little over $200 on Another Eden.....but not a cent of it was my own money, it was all from google play giftcards that I won.

Then I found out what utter shit WFS support is, and I regret spending anything even if it wasn't out of my pocket.

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Where did you win that gift card from?

Another Eden is inspired by Crono Cross? Got mixed reviews due to the fact that it "forces" people to play on mobile instead?

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Multiple $5-$20 gift cards, from bluestacks 2 hour things.

Many of the Chrono Trigger devs also worked on AE so there are a lot of similarities between it and CT/CC. There's also a CC collab with a pretty good story arc that gives you Serge, Kid, and Harle as playable characters.

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Multiple $5-$20 gift cards, from bluestacks 2 hour things.

Oh, is it still possible to make that amount now? Or it was a temporary thing?

Many of the Chrono Trigger devs also worked on AE so there are a lot of similarities between it and CT/CC. There's also a CC collab with a pretty good story arc that gives you Serge, Kid, and Harle as playable characters.

I see, I've not played any of them. But I can see the similarities.

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If you can spare 10 minutes every 2 hours to play whatever random game, and don't mind going days or even weeks without winning anything, yes. That ~$200 was won $5 at a time over the course of a couple years, I had nothing else to spend google play credit on so I said why not?

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Absolutely! I'm trying to use Mistplay and play the heck out of Raid: Shadow Legends, because it earns me good amount of points. I'm capable of withdrawing £10 already, but I wanna make it to £15 before I withdraw.

The problem is, the game started hooking me and now I actually enjoy it.

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well, 6-7 years long wow subscription? but all those were done monthly...

Games gets sales sooooo fast nowadays, so I literally never buy full priced games, there were some exception for games when i had a lot of fun with the previous titles of a company. Most expensive perhaps was:
Stellaris 39,99€

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It's never worth getting a game at full price unless you're going to play it straight away or you're building content off of it.

I got Stellaris recently too, but I've not paid the full price. Paradox always charges so much for DLC's that I don't see buying the base game at full price worth it.

Speaking of the game, how do you find it?

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It is total different now as it was at the release. Most of paradox DLCs changing the game a lot and that is what it keeps the game fresh. Additionally, most of the changes comes in the free patches at the DLC release.

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I see. The game still looks quite good for it's age, and I plan on playing it soon. I felt the need for a space game/adventure.

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Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Digital Deluxe Edition Pre-Order 99.99 EUR
5.8 hrs on record

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Oh, this was the only CoD with futuristic combat as I remember. At the time when I saw it, I can honestly say I've not liked it. After playing Titanfall 2 I've reconsidered trying it at some point.

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The most I've ever spent on League of Legends is $450 over 9 years.
As a single purchase, Assassin Creed Odyssey - Gold Edition $59.99

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The most I've ever spent on League of Legends is $450 over 9 years.

That's a lot, but still expected for that game. Which is your main champion and role? And what's the character that you've bought the most skins for?

As a single purchase, Assassin Creed Odyssey - Gold Edition $59.99

I've finished the game not too long ago. It took a while to get used to it as a fan of the franchise, but the game grew on me as time passed.

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That's a lot, but still expected for that game. Which is your main champion and role? And what's the character that you've bought the most skins for?

Since season 5, my main role has been support and my current main champion is Nami. Umm.. maybe Volibear?

I've finished the game not too long ago. It took a while to get used to it as a fan of the franchise, but the game grew on me as time passed.

So do I. I played that game after Assassin's Creed Unity and it took me a while to get used to it.

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Since season 5, my main role has been support and my current main champion is Nami. Umm.. maybe Volibear?

Nami? My wife loved playing Nami. We've started since Season 4 playing. I have been an ADC main all that time. Started as Varus main, ended as Jhin main.

So do I. I played that game after Assassin's Creed Unity and it took me a while to get used to it.

Unitity clicked with me surprisingly very well. I've hoped it would be the mess and trash people kept talking about, but I honestly enjoyed it a lot more than I hoped for. It ended up reaching my top 5 list of best AC games.

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Age of empires 4 pre order, around 30$

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It's on my wishlist, how's the game. Is it the best of the series or it has a long way to go to beat Age of Empires 2?

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for me its the best even though its still not perfectly balanced, but its getting updates frequently

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That's excellent news because I've not played a classic RTS in years like Age of Empires. They were all a spin-off of RTS, with twists and stuff.

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red dead redemption 2

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Did you get it full price?

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Resident Evil Village,full price. To me it lived up to the hype.

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Very happy to hear you liked it. There's not many disappointing Resident Evil games to be honest.

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reisident evil 3 remake full price totally not worth it

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I've heard it was a lot shorter than the original one. People did mention that the only reason it was all over the place was because of the multiplayer part? Which isn't the best Resident Evil multiplayer game people really want?

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Funny enough, the most expensive game I have purchased is actually the only game I have paid real money to own and play.
It is Wazhack
The rest of the games on my account of which many are more expensive than Wazhack, are from won giftcards, giveaways, skins, freebies, actual gifts...

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You've managed your games really well then. Very impressive!

354 Games is an impressive thing to say the least.

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Chip N' Dale, NES. 1990
Converted price : 67€50 (115€ today with inflation / 125$)

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Old console games were so expensive! Remember being wowed by the graphics of Chip n' dale back in the days and wanting it. My neighbour got it though so I did not have to! (While a good game, i'm glad I did not get it. It was too easy. Even as a 5-6 year old I was able to breeze through it)

Although I did not pay for it, if we count gifts Donke Kong Country was my most expensive game. Darn thing was 800 SEK (about 80€) at launch. Beat it in three days :(

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That's a lot if you think about it. Did you enjoy it at the time?

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Yes but I should study more better than play all of those video games when I was young! :D

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You'll be studying/learning all your life. Don't bump yourself too much. 😋

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The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt Collector's Edition - £150, Gryphon is whole (many have damaged tail attachment).
But I bought for £1 Heroes of Might and Magic Complete Edition, accidentally saw in the store, 99% discount, apparently no one wanted to buy such beauty.

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The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt Collector's Edition - £150, Gryphon is whole (many have damaged tail attachment).

That looks like a really cool pack!

But I bought for £1 Heroes of Might and Magic Complete Edition, accidentally saw in the store, 99% discount, apparently no one wanted to buy such beauty.

And what a game that was. 🥰

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By far, the largest is the ~$120 I have spent on Beat Saber and DLCs over the last month. I don't regret it as I am having lots of fun competing with my mom (she has the Oculus Quest 2, I have the HP Reverb G2). None of my other game purchases come close to that spending.

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That's probably the most wholesome thing I've read today. May you both enjoy your time together with the same enthusiasm and fun as you first started.

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Depends on if you mean one-time purchase or over the lifetime of a game. I did buy the Guild Wars 1 CE for about 60-70€. Over the lifetime of a game probably Ultima Online which I played for about 4 years. Not counting subscriptions, well, I do own all but one expansion for Europa Universalis 4....

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Depends on if you mean one-time purchase or over the lifetime of a game.

It's more of a over the lifetime purchase for a game, be it containing subscription or DLC or maybe it was a special edition kind of package.

Not counting subscriptions, well, I do own all but one expansion for Europa Universalis 4....

I just bought the collection recently from Humble, but haven't yet played it. I'm curious if it's closely similar to Crusader Kinds.

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Forza Horizon 4 & 5. Pre-ordered ultimate edition, no regrets.

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Do you play other racing games or just this particularly?

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Nothing hardcore. I also have Forza Horizon 3 and Forza Autosports 7. Other than that, I have played few NFS titles and a bit of Crew and GRID. No sims though.

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How is Forza Horizon 3? Worth going back to play that one first?

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I would put it in first place, loved that game.

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I wish it was on Steam. 😥

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It is removed from windows store too. Only ways to play - hard copy, grey market or pirate.

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Yeah, well idk why it got removed. I wonder if on the XBox, the console you can still get it.

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Probably licensing. You can try to get hard copy of game for console.

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Yeah, you're probably right.

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I spent a grand today to be able to play Black Mesa. Background: I went through some dire straits the last year and didn't want to buy overpriced components to enrich scalpers.
I decided to re-visit Black Mesa to experience the Xen chapter. Alas my humble business laptop didn't cut it and I uninstalled the game. A friend noticed and asked me and I told him why.
So in frustration I checked the market and settled for an entry level gaming laptop(MSI GF65 Thin 10UE-273) which I bought today.

A welcome side effect will be that no one can blame me to not appreciate the Halflife franchise ;)

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I''ve never played the game yet. I want to, but I've constantly delayed it. I'm glad there's a fan-made remake for it. I do wanna play it because of it even more.

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Software wise I don't think I've ever spent over 15 USD in any individual game. Now, if you add up all the games I bought through the years and the hardware I bought in order to play them it's likely a hefty sum, a sum I'd rather not calculate for the sake of my mental health.

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If it made you happy and enriched your childhood/adulthood I think it's worth it!

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As far as I'm concerned it was worth it for sure, I just don't wanna do the numbers because it would take a decent amount of effort to track down all the different purchases and then try to convert them into a single currency and adjust for inflation and just thinking about that sounds like too much of a hassle.
Also it was mostly adulthood, up until my early twenties I was a full time pirate when it came to gaming, then I made a 180 and I now probably have one the largest Steam libraries in my country (I was in the top 20 at one point according to astats).

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As far as I'm concerned it was worth it for sure, I just don't wanna do the numbers because it would take a decent amount of effort to track down all the different purchases and then try to convert them into a single currency and adjust for inflation and just thinking about that sounds like too much of a hassle.

And to be fair, you'd have to recall many years back and prices changes, I'd never ask you to do that kind of work. 😄

Also it was mostly adulthood, up until my early twenties I was a full time pirate when it came to gaming, then I made a 180 and I now probably have one the largest Steam libraries in my country (I was in the top 20 at one point according to astats).

I can understand that, I've done that too, but now I am buying the games I've once pirated and if they are part of bundles I'm even happier.

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Oh yeah, I've also done that for most titles, tho I've never been able to find a (reasonably priced) copy of Outrun 2006 C2C, still hoping to come across a physical copy someday.
I also decided to not bother with any Nintendo game, f*ck 'em and their weird practices when it comes to selling stuff, I'll keep emulating their things without paying a cent.

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Oh lol 🤣 I've emulated a 3DS once when I was back in Romania. I think it was to play Harvest Moon with my girlfriend (wife now). 😃

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Star Trek generation on PC but it was end of the 90's when games were in big boxes, i last couple of years and on steam C&C remastered collection. if we on console's then i could say Astros playroom

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Have you've played the most recent Star Trek games?

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no, skipped ST online and bridge command since im not much unto mmo and mp games

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usually they have the most developed lore, as there's a lot of stuff they can introduce. But I can understand that an MMO draws too much of someone's time. I don't have the time to play and grind one myself.

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i usually play for the story. since i no longer have time to game as much as when i was younger i focus on games with story thats interesting to me and that i can save almost anywhere so i can play in chunks of 15 do 30 minutes.

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Yeah, I prefer to do that too and besides, if the game doesn't click right away in the first hours, I drag it longer. I can spend a lot more time with a game, because I'm obsessing to getting all quests, collectables and discover all parts of the game better. So a game that generally is a 15 hours length, turns into 25-40 hours, if I enjoy it.

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Idk if this counts but for me it would be CS:GO because of skins, more particularly skins for gambling when that was huge.
Altogether I believe I spent about $3.5k out of pocket...
I honestly think about it alot still, I sincerely believe certain aspects of my life would be different if I hadn't gambled all that money considering I was fairly young.

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It does count. I hope you enjoyed the game to the fullest. 😃

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Across all accounts i played around 5.7k hours total. Wasn't always enjoyable per she but nonetheless I will always have a lot of memories with it

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That's a lot of hours. I think I've only spent in League of Legends although to backtrack is impossible as they didn't have such a system, I remember playing. I could say I'd be spending 4 hours a day, approx 5 days a week. Constantly playing for that amount, gets me to about 600 hours in a month.

In an year I would play 7,200 Hours? 🤔 If that's the case, I've spent over 28,800 Hours in the game for the course of 4.5 seasons. I don't know if this is possible, but even half, like 2 hours/5 days, get's me to 14,400 Hours in the course of 4 years. 😱

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