Happy New Year! While writing yesterday’s post I noticed that it was the tenth of its kind, mostly focusing on expenses, so if you find that boring, I can’t help you.
Let’s start with the easy numbers:
Overall Expenses
- 2014: 450 EUR
- 2015: 355 EUR
- 2016: 374 EUR
- 2017: 298 EUR
- 2018: 176 EUR
- 2019: 467 EUR
- 2020: 976 EUR
- 2021: 916 EUR
- 2022: 535 EUR
- 2023: 400 EUR
- 2024: 236 EUR
So 2018 was an outlier due to unknown reasons and 2020+2021 were outliers due to Covid 19 and me not going outside a lot, but other than that it seems to be safe inside 300-550 EUR bracket, which means 25 to 45 EUR per month, so less than 1 AAA title per month. I can live with that.
MMOs I paid for:
- WoW:
- 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
- about 72 out of 96 months (not counting two years with zero game time)
- EVE:
- 2014, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
- as of 2020 it’s three accounts, only one before that – too hard to count I think, but I guess it’s between 105 and 120 months, (out of 120 months) so accounts number 2+3 for the last 3 years make up the time I was not subscribed
- WildStar:
- 2014, 2015
- less than 12 months of subs
- SW:TOR:
- 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
- about 21 months spread over 5 years
- FFXIV:
- 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023
- about 20 months spread over 4 years (only one free month in 2023)
- Marvel Heroes:
- 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
- no sub, bought some packs and ingame currency
- Guild Wars 2:
- 2015, 2017
- basically buying expansions with diamonds included
I suppose any statistics about other games are moot, there were some I played a lot, some I played from time to time, some were free and some were bought. Nothing spectacular in a 10 year review I guess.
Hardware
Hardware costs could be another interesting breakdown but I’m not sure I’ll manage to meaningfully break that down, but I’ll try. My gaming PC from 2019 was about 1500 EUR, then a monitor for 400, some more SSDs (let’s say 300), my old graphics card (maybe 300), another monitor (let’s say 300) and some peripherals. That would be about 3000 EUR in 10 years. Sounds low, but even with a bit of research I think I got most of the parts and might not be missing a lot. Taking notes helps.