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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I like to do things cost per hour. A $60 dollar video game that gives me 120 hours of content is $0.50 an hour. Pretty good if you ask me.

Going to the movies is $20 for 2 hours. $10 an hour. Pretty high, sometimes worth it. That's about my gauge.

This is $21 an hour. For that I better be having just an amazing time, I better be at Disneyland or something.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Heck even Disneyland is cheaper per hour.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Probably still much more expensive per hour not spent standing in line, though..

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I've spent $160 on Elden Ring (base game on PC and PS5 and I have the DLC on PC), and have spent 638.5 hours in it just on Steam. That's about $0.25/hour. Even arcade games aren't that cheap anymore!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I’ve got >1000 hours in Microsoft Flight Simulator and I paid $100 for the deluxe edition. 10 cents an hour, at most.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

When I bought my buddy’s used GameCube for like $50 back in 2005, he gave me an extra controller and Smash Bros. Melee with it.

Just on that game alone I logged more than 2,000 hours playing almost literally every day for 4 years alongside my dorm-mates and buddies.

That’s like… $0.02 and a half cents per hour… for a whole ass GameCube and a game.

…Best purchase I ever made.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

What a surprise.