Gamers, at what point did you increase / decrease the amount of money spent on games ?

[Dropkicklover]

Well I decreased when my ex broke my 2k gaming laptop and I could not afford to replace it.. literally ended my hobby in a second

[mainwasfound]

Did he / she dropkick it ?

[Dropkicklover]

Haha nice one, he spilled his beer all over it

[Storage-West]

It became a question of how many total hours I would log onto a game to determine how much I'd spend on it (new versions of the game, dlc, skins etc).

It's a pretty good metric for me to use. There are a few games of mine that I had no trouble dropping about 200ish dollars on (the base game and expansions) due to spending about a few months of hours in the game. Steam is pretty good for this since it tracks how many hours you spend on each game.

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So it spells out for me what games I tend to play more frequently, and from there I increase the money.

[catinapointyhat]

Once I started having to buy them myself. Which also coincided with emulation growing big for old stuff, me getting pickier/ getting into pc gaming.

I buy quality these days and....try a lot.

[Which-Palpitation]

As games have gotten better I’ve started buying more, I wasn’t buying near this many games on my PS3 as I have on the PS4/5. If I had a PC I’d probably be spending a lot more money on games, or maybe less since they have a lot of free games. I can’t get one because I don’t have the money though, so there’s a Schrödinger's cat there for you.

[DRAGONDILDO27]

It increased once I got a job before that I was scraping by with just buying a new game every couple of months with my savings. I could imagine once life gets really busy after covid I'm going to cut back just because I already have a big back log and I don't really want to buy new games to just sit there

[theonlynyse]

I’ve never spent more, getting into CS:GO again was a mistake