{"id":2156,"date":"2013-01-13T19:38:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T19:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2013-01-13T19:38:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T19:38:19","slug":"gaming-cost-per-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2013\/01\/13\/gaming-cost-per-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaming cost per hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was curious, and none of the sites tracking this sort of thing could easily provide me with the stats per game, so I looked up what I&#8217;d paid for a few steam games and how much effectively I&#8217;d paid &#8216;per hour&#8217; to enjoy them. here are some I checked&#8230;<\/p>\n<table width=\"400px\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Battlefield Bad Company 2 &amp; vietnam add on<\/td>\n<td>\u00a30.15 \/ hour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dishonored<\/td>\n<td>\u00a32.30 \/ hour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Hearts of iron 3<\/td>\n<td>\u00a31.87 \/ hour.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sim City 4 Deluxe<\/td>\n<td>\u00a30.14 \/ hour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Defense grid<\/td>\n<td>\u00a30.43 \/ hour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Skyrim<\/td>\n<td>\u00a35.86 \/ hour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Tropico 4<\/td>\n<td>\u00a30.62 \/ hour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Wargame:European Escalation<\/td>\n<td>\u00a330.00 \/ hour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>#It;s very interesting doing this, as it immediately shows me how impulse purchases at full price with no demo, based on a video are always my nemesis. Wargame:EE was a nightmare for me, whereas Battlefield BC2 is a huge gain. In fact, that figure is way lower if you discount the vietnam DLC. In that case, it&#8217;s a clear example of the company getting more from me in DLC (at full price) than the base game, something the stats show I&#8217;m clearly very happy to do (they clearly earned it). Something else that becomes clear is that this doesn&#8217;t really match my enjoyment of the game that much. Hearts of iron 3 clocked up a fair few hours, but did I really enjoy it as much as dishonored? I&#8217;d say definitely not. Another way to look at this is to say that, for example I&#8217;m happy to in general pay \u00a31 an hour for quality gaming entertainment. By that measure the costs should have been:<\/p>\n<table width=\"400px\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Battlefield Bad Company 2 &amp; vietnam add on<\/td>\n<td>worth \u00a3107<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dishonored<\/td>\n<td>worth \u00a313<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Hearts of iron 3<\/td>\n<td>worth \u00a38<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sim City 4 Deluxe<\/td>\n<td>worth \u00a317<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Defense grid<\/td>\n<td>Worth \u00a34<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Skyrim<\/td>\n<td>worth \u00a34<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Tropico 4<\/td>\n<td>worth \u00a310<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Wargame:European Escalation<\/td>\n<td>worth \u00a31<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>of course this assumes I have as much fun with each game, which isn&#8217;t entirely true.\u00a0 Even so, who would have thought I could justify spending 100 times as much on one game as I did on another, but that has to be the rational conclusion. Maybe those F2P whales are more rational than I assume?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was curious, and none of the sites tracking this sort of thing could easily provide me with the stats per game, so I looked up what I&#8217;d paid for a few steam games and how much effectively I&#8217;d paid &#8216;per hour&#8217; to enjoy them. here are some I checked&#8230; Battlefield Bad Company 2 &amp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Gaming cost per hour<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2013\/01\/13\/gaming-cost-per-hour\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2159,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions\/2159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}