My 80 hours a month of WoW are still more cost effective in terms of hours vs cost. In fact, I put 250 hours into Skyrim, which cost $60. Most of us play much more than 5 hours a month. Since I average 20 hours a week in WoW, and there are four weeks in a month, I normally pay $0.18 per hour.īasically, you’d have to play WoW for just 5 hours a month (15/5=$3 per hour) for it to have the same value as a $60 game with 20 hours of content (60/20=$3 per hour). Since I played WoW for 20 hours just last week, and I pay monthly at $15, I only paid $0.75 per hour just for that week. If I think of paying $60 for a game that has 20 hours of content, I’m paying $3 an hour to play that game. The average game I’m typically seeing or interested in has 20 hours of content, if you discount multiplayer modes. That’s not to say that games like Skyrim or Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines don’t exist, but they’re few and far between. Most games don’t have a lot of hours in them. Nowadays, I can just play many other singleplayer RPGs and free MMOs.īut I'm just curious, how do you guys do it? Do you guys spend most of your gaming time playing WoW? Do you dedicate each paid month to trying to cram in as much playtime as you can? Do you just pay the subscription and let Blizzard take money from your bank account without a care in the world of much/little you actually end up playing? Not that I don't like WoW, I'm really interested in delving into it, it's just that there are a million other games/things to do. It's hard to sit-down and dedicate a whole month to playing just WoW.

When I initially got WoW, I played maybe a few hours that month and just got distracted by other things in life.

I'm also only home less than 3 days a week because I have to travel really far to get to work. Even back in the day when I used to play video games often, I had so many games to play, that paying monthly for one of them would be crazy when there are a ton I have that wouldn't cost me any extra to play. I've never made much money, have a college degree with a cert, and still make very little money. I rarely get to play video games and the thought of paying $15 for one of my games to be playable seems absurd.

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