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This is not okay.

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He said if a gamer spent $60 for the game, an additional $20 per month for loot micro-transaction boxes and played around 2.5 hours a day for one year, it comes out to roughly 40 cents per hour of entertainment.

lol, what? 2.5 hours every day? Whoever conducted this study is delusional. xD

 

I really hope that game companies don't raise prices because of this "study" -_-

 

  1. Zando_

    Zando_

    Erhm, yeah. I play a lot, but not 2.5 hours every day. I have to eat, work, and sleep unfortunately. And next is he going to say cars are too cheap because you can buy a new one for a few thousand and then drive it 100,000 miles or more?

  2. WereCat

    WereCat

    Damn, I have played over 6000 matches in LoL ... I am lucky that RIOT was not avare of this study back then, otherwise that game would cost a whole fortune.

  3. Zando_

    Zando_

    @WereCat so you owe them $3000 or something? How long does a match take?

  4. PCGuy_5960

    PCGuy_5960

    The funny thing is that people play cheaper games way more than more expensive ones. I mean, CS:GO and LoL are two of the most popular games out there. CS:GO costs $10 and LoL costs $0. xD

  5. Zando_

    Zando_

    Yep. Like tons of people said, the whole appeal of gaming is that it's cheap. Like I play a lot of SWTOR (free) Battlefront (got that for $5), and the only game I payed full price for is ARMA 3, at $40 + $20 for DLCs. But I'm loath to buy Battlefront II, since it's $60-80. 

  6. WereCat

    WereCat

    @Zando Bob About 30min on avg

  7. Princess Luna

    Princess Luna

    The only game I have played for more tan 2hours straight in a very long time, like years time, was The Witcher 3 which hasn't any of the micro-transactions involved :P

  8. Zando_

    Zando_

    @WereCat so yeh, if you payed $1 per hour, then that's $3000 for 6000 matches. So the price of a decent used car. 

  9. XenosTech

    XenosTech

    2.5 hours US ? CAD ? Yen ? What conversions are they using ????

  10. MEC-777

    MEC-777

    And yet again, the people doing these "studies" are completely detached and clueless with regards to the actual gaming community, making their findings completely and utterly irrelevant. *slow clap* 

  11. XenosTech

    XenosTech

    They only seeing the $$

  12. imreloadin

    imreloadin

    In the thread someone noted that one of the people who was a big part of the study is directly involved with EA in a business sense soooo yeah what did you really expect xD

  13. PCGuy_5960

    PCGuy_5960

    Well, I guess that this "study" isn't very unbiased. xD

  14. XenosTech

    XenosTech

    And salt free too

  15. MEC-777

    MEC-777

    Gaming used to be about the games and the experience those games brought you. Now it's all about the $$$ and it's just not the same. You cannot put a dollar value on gaming since everyone perceives that value differently. This article is just beyond stupid. 

  16. Mr.Meerkat

    Mr.Meerkat

    To me, I cannot give half a shit about $/hour. As long as I enjoyed playing the game, even if it was £60 for 20 hours or £20 for 2000hours+, I'd be happy. 

     

    @Abyss Gaming Is that me? The most I've ever played was 128 hours in 2 weeks for CSGO :P (and 112 hours/2W for R6S). 

  17. XenosTech

    XenosTech

    @Mr.Meerkat I used to rack up 182 hours every 2 weeks on warframe back when I was in college.

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