What's the most money you've ever spent on a game?

some random drunk · 11-08-2012 1:00am #1

Just looking at some of my old PS2 games there and found a few price labels still on the cases. A couple of them like Medal of Honor Frontline and Final Fantasy X I'd bought for €69.99 at their time of release in 2002 or so. Adjusted for inflation that's the equivalent of €87.45 in today's money.

Got me thinking what was the most expensive game I'd ever bought. I reckon some of the earlier N64 games were the dearest. Mario Kart 64 cost me £64.99 back in the summer of 1997. That's the same as €120.60 today.

Anyone spent more?

There's an Irish inflation calculator here, for working out the cost in today's money: http://www.anthonykelly.com/inflation.html

Headshot · 11-08-2012 1:02am

How much was Gran turismo 5 Signature Edition again? I think was around 150?

unkymo · 11-08-2012 1:08am

Headshot wrote: »

How much was Gran turismo 5 Signature Edition again? I think was around 150?

I paid E180 for my one plus all the DLC so far so its well over E200 i've spent on GT5!

cherryghost · 11-08-2012 2:30am

80 pounds for Sonic 3D back in the days AFAIK. Waste of money too

johnny_ultimate · 11-08-2012 2:38am

Rock Band when someone was doing a bundle deal just after release. I forget what shop it was, but they probably don't exist anymore. Virgin? Zavvi? Hell if I know. Oh the transience of modern entertainment retailing!

GTR63 · 11-08-2012 2:54am

Think WWF No Mercy cost me 65 quid at the time, but it wasn't the buggy 1st batch thankfully.
Spent €55 on Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow for the DS(thats a LOT for a Ds game for me anyway), left it on a train then a few months later....moron.

EoghanIRL · 11-08-2012 2:55am

Halo reach legendary edition cost approx 120. Plus all dlcs I bought

Overheal · 11-08-2012 5:57am

I would think World of Warcraft wins that honor.

$40 for Vanilla and TBC Licenses
$40 for WotLK
$40 for Cata
Countless months of subscription. But minus the free time from license boxes? Eh, lets call it 16 months. Ish. At $15 a piece thats $240.

In all, $360. Do I count that pandaren monk pet? And that other charity pet that helped fight cancer or something? Oh hell, call it $380. Well, and sales tax on the battle chest, and the authenticator, so $390.

RobbingBandit · 11-08-2012 6:37am

Modern Warfare 2 Night Vision Set day one, €169.99.

Pokemon White and Black 15 times each over the course of the last 2 years have cost me €400. Each time I trade them in I rebuy them a few weeks later.

ShadowHearth · 11-08-2012 8:17am

I dunno if mmorpg count as one game. If yes, then that would have been bogged money sink for me too.

Vanilla wow normal 40eu
The burning crusade normal 40eu
Wrath of the lick king collectors edition 85eu
Cataclysm collectors edition 85eu

Subscription for 5 years at least. 700eu

Gunmonkey · 11-08-2012 8:23am

Asassins Creed: Revelations Animus Edt for round €100 last year. Kinda not worth it, encyclopedia was good but just retreaded the games stories rather than flesh out the whole AC universe more.

Sephiroth_dude · 11-08-2012 1:43pm

150euro for the skyrim collectors edition,wasn't worth it,dragon is a plastic piece of crap

Ape X · 11-08-2012 2:29pm

I'll count myself lucky - think the most expensive game for me was SFII special edition on the SNES at £60 (although with inflation, that's probably actually a lot of money for the early 90s). It was the first game I ever bought that came in a tin

Edit: Just noticed the inflation calculator in the OP.... and wish I hadn't

Big Knox · 11-08-2012 2:35pm

ShadowHearth wrote: »

I dunno if mmorpg count as one game. If yes, then that would have been bogged money sink for me too.

Vanilla wow normal 40eu
The burning crusade normal 40eu
Wrath of the lick king collectors edition 85eu
Cataclysm collectors edition 85eu

Subscription for 5 years at least. 700eu

Why in gods name would you subscribe to WoW for 5 years? A year or two is generally accepted until you realise it's the same **** with every expansion and quit! :pac:

5 years shadow, that's just... wrong!!

ShadowHearth · 11-08-2012 3:04pm

Big Knox wrote: »

Why in gods name would you subscribe to WoW for 5 years? A year or two is generally accepted until you realise it's the same **** with every expansion and quit! :pac:

5 years shadow, that's just... wrong!!

I had sub up and going. At some stage I would not log in for more then a month, then play again, then quit, then sub again. I met a lot of people in there, which are my real life buddies and even if we haven't played regularly wow for a year at least we always play other stuff.
I have already preordered expansion. I guess we will go again t play for a few months and them see where it will get us.

Magill · 11-08-2012 3:08pm

Big Knox wrote: »

Why in gods name would you subscribe to WoW for 5 years? A year or two is generally accepted until you realise it's the same **** with every expansion and quit! :pac:

5 years shadow, that's just... wrong!!

Vanilla/TBC and WotLK were all pretty damn good overall imo... thats like... 4/5 years. Im not sure what the general opinions of cataclysm are tho..

ShadowHearth · 11-08-2012 3:15pm

Magill wrote: »

Vanilla/TBC and WotLK were all pretty damn good overall imo... thats like... 4/5 years. Im not sure what the general opinions of cataclysm are tho..

To be honest cataclysm was my least played and enjoyed expansion. That's when downfall in wow came on me. I had a chance to be in good raiding guilds which were just gearing me up from greens in fireland. ( loved to have connections in wow lol ). After few raids I just could not be ****ed raiding anymore. I watched my friends playing something else and I felt like in prison or work at those raids. I just started skipping raids etc, I felt like an asshole as they did pumped some amount of gear and gold I to my character, but I just could not play damn game anymore.

o1s1n · 11-08-2012 4:08pm

€300 for a Sonic Crackers Megadrive prototype! Couldn't pass it up.

hal9000 · 11-08-2012 5:12pm

think it was 70-80punt on virtua racing for the megadrive which is prob about a billion euros in todays money! :P

richymcdermott · 11-08-2012 5:20pm

o1s1n wrote: »

€300 for a Sonic Crackers Megadrive prototype! Couldn't pass it up.

you are my hero

11-08-2012 5:24pm

GTR63 wrote: »

Think WWF No Mercy cost me 65 quid at the time, but it wasn't the buggy 1st batch thankfully.

Same as myself.

Got it for £65 in Game back in 2000.

YouSavedMyLife · 11-08-2012 9:36pm

Wow Vanilla - WotLK + Sub
SWTOR + Sub for the 2-3 months (lol) i played of it
Black Ops + DLC Map Packs

Been tempted by collector's editions so many times, but I just come to the realisation that most of them are ****e

saiint · 11-08-2012 10:52pm

age of empires the collection
cost me 120
even though i already had half of the games :P

the big box you get with the games inside just had that look saying (buy me)

calex71 · 12-08-2012 12:44am

Yeah likely rock band/guitar hero franchise as a whole for me was a massive money pit, if you include kits and games, but to be honest I'd say I spent more on DLC than the rest combined, In RB 3 including imports of other games, my library stood at over 600 songs

SpannerMonkey · 12-08-2012 8:50am

battlefield 3 , bought the game , then bought the premium over 100 in total

ancapailldorcha · 12-08-2012 9:38am

£60 for the Final Fantasy XIII-2 crystal edition or something like that. I could have sold it for over triple that but some filthbag robbed my house.

ShadowHearth · 12-08-2012 9:49am

heres the tip of the iceberg. Blizzard have robbed me blind

That_Guy · 13-08-2012 4:28pm

I think I spent €60 on the Alan Wake collectors edition when it came out and another €30-€40 on extra content.

RedXIV · 13-08-2012 4:36pm

I've been thinking about this for a while but I don't actually buy that many expensive games. I've always been about 2 years behind everyone else. I think the last day one release I bought was FFXIII collector's Edition for €69.99

I'm actually kinda proud of myself

Kinski · 13-08-2012 4:38pm

Didn't Street Fighter II launch at something like £60 when released on SNES?

Checking Wiki, £65sterling apparently, due to inadequate supply pushing the price up. So if that was the punt price (was probably more though), that puts it at over 130euro in today's money. **** me, I'd never pay that for a game.

chopperbyrne · 13-08-2012 4:41pm

I bought a PS3 just so I could play Street Fighter IV.

I've also spent hundreds on arcade sticks and components.

C14N · 14-08-2012 10:51am

I think I spent €180 on Guitar Hero World Tour. Not sure if that counts though because it's not the game that costs most of the money.

Probably €60 on FIFA back in the day. It's been a long time since I've spent that much money on a game.

Notorioux · 14-08-2012 11:12am

DJ Hero renegade edition it was around 180 euros when it came out, absolutely disgusted of myself everytime I'm seeing the 20 euros price tag of it now.

martingriff · 14-08-2012 11:24am

The new Assassins creed is €100 as was the last one but due to credit on old and unused games/movies I will cost be €7. I paid €100 on the last assassins creed and yes I agree was not much in it hopefully as it is the last one (YA RIGHT) they will have something cool

C14N · 14-08-2012 11:59am

martingriff wrote: »

The new Assassins creed is €100 as was the last one but due to credit on old and unused games/movies I will cost be €7. I paid €100 on the last assassins creed and yes I agree was not much in it hopefully as it is the last one (YA RIGHT) they will have something cool

Would you not just check the details of the special edition package online before paying double the price of the standard game?

martingriff · 14-08-2012 12:30pm

C14N wrote: »

Would you not just check the details of the special edition package online before paying double the price of the standard game?

I have and it looks cool just hope it is especially the statue bit. The previous one looked cool also just left me a bit disapointed

K.O.Kiki · 14-08-2012 2:25pm

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Modern Warfare 2 Night Vision Set day one, €169.99.

Pokemon White and Black 15 times each over the course of the last 2 years have cost me €400. Each time I trade them in I rebuy them a few weeks later.

You'd think you'd learn after the first time...

Oat23 · 14-08-2012 3:54pm

Most I spent was €95 on the Japanese version of Initial

Extreme Stage when it first came out. The Japanese version was more expensive, but the only one with online so I wanted that

.

I still play it now sometimes, so i guess it was worth it.

B.A._Baracus · 14-08-2012 3:57pm

I guess the most money I paid for a game has to be Battlefield 3.

- Bought full price at release day (50 euro)
- Bought 'premium' (which is just under 50 euro)

So the guts of 100 euro for one game.

Kiith · 14-08-2012 6:10pm

In the last few years, i've bought a few collectors editions, but for the bog standard game, it would have to be Shenmue 2 on the Dreamcast. Paid €80 (ish) for it on ebay.

Totally worth it.

jayteecork · 14-08-2012 6:18pm

Yeah probably WoW for me too.

A single released game? I suppose when I saved up all summer to buy Alien 3 on the SNES. Think it cost £60-65 irish punts in Smyth's.

Biggest waste of money ever. I felt sick as a dog when I realised how **** and repetitive it was. All the reviews were 90 percent plus. Definite case of Acclaim paying off the mags. Glad they went bust.

Converting to euro and adjusting for inflation that must have been well over €100 in today's money. Absolute garbage it was.

The SCII collector's edition cost me about 80e but it was worth it. Beautiful box, Jim Raynor dogtag usb drive with the original SC on it. in game WoW pet, artbook.

RarestSolanum · 14-08-2012 7:26pm

I've spent about €150 on League of Legends.

Who knew free to play was so expensive.

TomCo · 15-08-2012 11:31am

Worst waste of money was £50 for Die Hard Trilogy on the PC.

God it was awful. Terrible terrible game.

Blazer · 15-08-2012 3:06pm

Fifa 11 and Fifa 12..
Spent about another €150 on the bloody gold packs for Ultimate Team addon

Prob do the same again for Fifa 13

kingtiger · 15-08-2012 3:26pm

RarestSolanum wrote: »

I've spent about €150 on League of Legends.

Who knew free to play was so expensive.

yep spent about the same on World Of Tanks

FTP me hole

st3veebee · 15-08-2012 3:55pm

I thought I was doing really well until I remembered TF2.

Must have spent 80-100 euro on that game easily.

gizmo · 15-08-2012 4:12pm

jayteecork wrote: »

Yeah probably WoW for me too.

A single released game? I suppose when I saved up all summer to buy Alien 3 on the SNES. Think it cost £60-65 irish punts in Smyth's.

Biggest waste of money ever. I felt sick as a dog when I realised how **** and repetitive it was. All the reviews were 90 percent plus. Definite case of Acclaim paying off the mags. Glad they went bust.

Converting to euro and adjusting for inflation that must have been well over €100 in today's money. Absolute garbage it was.

Or maybe, I duno, you were wrong about it?

Most expensive CE for me was probably the God of War: Ultimate Edition for the PS3. That being said, I did get three games in that one so it worked out pretty well overall.

Most on a single game was probably back in the SNES days too. I seem to remember Buster Busts Loose being pretty expensive, as was Super Mario Kart, although that could be because they were some of the first games I ever bought with my own money.

What's the most money you've ever spent on a game?

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