3500 bucks over 14 years lol I think that counts only steam related sales, so that could be abit more in general as I've bought physical PC games for awhile and at a certain point, they were mostly just steam codes with unnecessary disks in them. It comes down to roughly 250 bucks a year though, which isn't really to bad as a hobby. Honestly thought it would be worse, but I've bought a lot of games on Steam on sale and getting stuff through humble bundles.
I'm quite certain I was more of a console gamer for the time I've had Steam so probably spent more on XB360, XB1, PS4, Switch games.
Not to mention the cost of my PC (£1000), XB1 (£430), PS4 (£350), Switch (£310) totaling £2,090 in hardware alone.
£2090 on gaming hardware, £1149 on Steam games, plus whatever I've spent on console games over the years (which will be a lot I bought many RPGs day one like Dragon Age Inqusition, Mass Effect Andromeda, Witcher 3, Fallout 4 which are £200 themselves), my switch games were probably another £200 (Zelda, Mario, Mario Kart, Skyrim) because they don't drop in value much and I got them close to launch.
All in I must have spent something like £5000 - £7000 on gaming the last few years and that may be a conservative estimate. Don't really think about it buying here and there. I once added up my ebay spend and saw I'd spent £700 or £800 over the course of a year primarily on video games. Most of which I just traded back in while they had value and now I have very little to show for the money.
I figured I got my money worth by playing a game to completion and playing more than an hour per £1 spent so can let go of the games.
I don't think I really regret anything. What else is there to spend money on? What better thing than entertainment? Is it really such a bad thing to spend a good whack of your earnings on games?
