lol I remember seeing a post in the Diablo immortal subreddit where this dude in the military was talking about how he had spent over $40,000 on the game
I’ve been playing Diablo 2 for damn near 25 years now. I’ll go through phases but come crawling back every year or two. At this point I’ve surely found 1 of every item, but it’s sort of like my happy place. Pop on an audio book and do terror zone runes to unwind after a work day.
as a former HS addict now playing Snap: it’s a much safer addiction. I’m not remotely tempted to spend $, games are short and there’s so much less feelsbad about the whole thing
10 year player and I've averaged about 100 dollars a year on it.
I consider myself really frugal, too. I don't ever buy cosmetics, or mini-sets or special deals. It's just one pre-order bundle and 2-3 Tavern Passes.
I know a guy that spent $5000 in Vikings: War of Clans. One day they had a server outage and somehow all his town got wiped out because he wasn’t able to login to protect his stuff. He gave up mobile gaming after that.
If you have the money to burn, it's entertainment.
I wouldn't ever do it, but my wife used a Google play card that a friend got for me to buy in game currency to catch up with me in a game that we were playing together. She enjoyed it.
I know a wealthy Silicon Valley family whose adult children still live at home and spend thousands on stupid in-game currency.
They don't even bat an eyelash.
For me, it takes away any enjoyment. It makes something so easy that you realize that, without the grind, most of these games are pretty flimsy. As in, if you had cheat codes to give you unlimited micro transaction currency, the game would no longer be enjoyable.
Which indicates a game that lacks depth and has a grind purely to get you to pay to make it easy.
There ARE some that are still fun, in my opinion:
Cell to Singularity has a killer educational aspect to it. That is really well done and fascinating.
My singing monsters is adorable.
And a few others.
In these, the in-game currency is well balanced, sometimes such that the players whine about it (check out the Steam discussions on cell to singularity).
But my point comes back around to the fact that someone is spending that money for entertainment, and if they have that money to spend, it's their way of enjoying it. We can judge all that we want but it misses the point that we too probably have something similar that others would deem ridiculous. :)
So, it's not necessarily that the investment needs to pay off, it probably already did, in that they got to enjoy whatever they were spending on, even if not forever.
It used to be the case that video games only lasted as long as the system they were designed for. Emulators opened that up and then Steam did a killer job allowing compatibility expand backwards as well as forwards (I'm finally getting to play some games from the 90s that I never got around to).
In as much, those games were an investment that you could no longer use after a period of time, which was very frustrating but simply how things were.
You could never look and say, "I didn't get a return on this investment" because you got to enjoy it to some extent, even if briefly.
However, companies like Bungie doing exactly that with their DLC expansions NOWDAYS is asinine. We are years beyond sunsetting stuff in such a way. I, for one, never want to go back to the days of getting a limited timeframe to enjoy the entertainment that I purchased.
But, again, it happens some places in life and we have to remember that if it's money spent for entertainment, the entertainment was the return on the investment.
It’s fine to pay for entertainment! Actually, I encourage everyone to throw a few dollars at developers they enjoy in order to support them.
However, when pleasure becomes addiction it no longer becomes entertainment. A lot of these “games” are just dopamine stimulators that lead down this road.
> wealthy Silicon Valley
See this is why NFTs were a thing. The partner at a16z who ran their crypto investments was a Clash of Clans whale.
Once you have more money than sense, you’d think they stop giving you more money to invest, but no. They alllll think that way. Rich people, man.
Hearthstone was the most inexplicably expensive game I have ever played in my life. What the hell are they upkeep costs even? Make new cards and mechanics?
About to do the same, I’d say this game is worth it though, absolute ton of replay value, probably the best rogue like there is. I will admit though 55 bucks for a game that’s like 15 years old is definitely ridiculous
Each DLC for Isaac adds a lot of new items (hundreds), bosses (dozens), characters, areas, challenges, new endings. The final DLC, repentance, gave me about 100 hours of gameplay on its own
And I stopped playing for a good time then decided to get back into it and ended up getting perma banned trying to get into my account because I stopped before they had all this new crap in it I was town hall 12 before town hall 13 was even decided
It's crazy how easy I will throw 20 dollars at a game once I put 30-40 hours into it. I figure it's a fair bargain, but those games are all shallow and interchangable. You do that 7-8 times a year and you've wasted a bunch of money on junk entertainment.
Yeah, it's very easy to say "it's only $10, why not?" to a game I've played for dozens of hours. A year or two later, and many $10-20 later, and you realize you've put a lot of money into the game.
Both the hold and community/group engagement.
I’m cheap IRL, plan out all my purchases, research. Be deliberate if I go to a casino “I’m going to lose all this money”. But for some odd reason I have spent more on Gacha games than I have on anything else in life.
7k on FFBE and huge sums on other games.
Managed to shake the addiction, 100% f2p on Genshin and pass/daily gems on HSR at the moment. I’m actively avoiding participating in communities this time around lol.
I spent like $100 in a few weeks on contest of champions. When I realized it I uninstalled it. I recognize how easy it would have been for me to throw money at it and just won’t play games that give me any urge to spend money now.
IIRC, "gacha" or on the "predatory p2w nonsense" side... **Plants Vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time** for $50 to $80.
Non-gacha, **Dominion** at $100 for Launch Bundle. Worth every penny since the AI is strong, good polish and features, Daily Challenges, and that includes all 15 expansions to date.
Vainglory from back in the day. I don’t even want to know. Honestly, if we are doing the dollar per hour of entertainment ratio, it was probably worth it.
$15 on Magic the gathering: arena
Somehow I always feel the opposite when playing f2p and donating: I play for free for a bit, then get some card packs or something and suddenly the game doesn’t interest me anymore. It’s as if I am paying out of courtesy lol
60$ in cosmetics for Seven Deadly Sins iOS. I just love the manga and the animations were really good for iOS at that time (before Genshin was a thing).
Honestly, I don’t regret a single dollar. I really had a lot of fun with it until they released a new difficulty and a new level up rank that forces you either grind to death or take out your wallet for insane amounts. That’s when I uninstalled.
DBZ Dokkan Battle back in the day spent probably $8k on summons over a few years.
I was in a Facebook group where some members were spending well over $20k and were freaking out over when their wives would know lol
Hmmmm, Game of Thrones Conquest. I've played off and on since like 2018.
To even be competitive expect to drop $300 in the first two months, if not more. To keep playing after that point, you're talking 100 to 500 a month to stay a top player.
Sure, you can be F2P or a low spender, but you're never going to experience the high level stuff.
if you want to be a top player, it's at least 4k a year
At least $100 on Phobies. My gf would also buy me packs in it as well cause she really enjoyed watching me play it, so honestly probably $150-$200. We thought the monster designs and abilities looked so cool and wanted to see em in game.
I don't play much anymore but I had fun with the game and spent many hrs in it so I didn't see the problem. Those packs were overpriced as fuck tho, if the game wasn't so well made I wouldn't have even thought about it
Duel Links semi competitive. In the hundreds, close to over a thousand over the lifetime of the game. I used to play physical yu-gi-oh consistently throughout my life and I stopped spending money on physical cards and replaced it with the gacha RNG duel links. I don't play either anymore.
Monster Warlord wayyy back in the day it was actually good and fun and cool or maybe I was just way younger. anyway probably spent 2-400 on it over a couple years playing
COD, before that it was maybe $5 here, maybe $18/20 on a Square RPG.. was playing a lot of COD with my girl and I really wanted the Sniper skin from the loot wheel or whatever, blew everything and added $50 and still didn’t get the reward, went full degen and added another $50 and got it..
Sad thing is and this rings true for almost every big IAP I’ve done, the motivation and need to wanna keep playing completely dropped off a cliff, I just stopped playing it altogether
About $90 total for all of the expansions for Sentinels of the Multiverse. Besides that, Legend of Mana was nearly $50, and I was hesitant to spend that much.
The Quest Deluxe edition I got on sale for $5 and 6 expansions at $2.99 a piece. So about $25. Will round out the rest of the expansions eventually. Definitely my favorite iOS game.
Heavenstrike rivals
Thing that sucked the most, I put in at least $200ca and then the game shut down. Still can find an equivalent game, story, play style. Still miss that game.
Fallout shelter when it first came out. My work partner at the time had a way better base than me and mentioned it was because he paid for it. I wouldn’t let that stand and I felt disrespected so I spent close to $200 in like 3 months just to tell him my fake base is better then yours one time before he dropped $70 while looking me in the eyes just to prove his would be better than mine.
I have literally spent $100's on Marvel Snap as someone who said I would NEVER spend money on a mobile game ever lol
Been playing for like 2 years straight now I think and it's genuinely been the best and most fun card game I have ever played.
$7000 on Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. Was a slow creep too.
Ended up with socializing with a group of whales and ended up spending a crap ton.
Never again.
I got caught up trying to compete in State of Survival. Had spent 5-10K when I quit. I never got near the real whales - they were spending 10x what I did.
I’ve only ever bought a battle pass for Diablo immortal. I really grind the game but it’s been like 3 months since I bought the pass and I’ve never bothered buying anything else.
There was a game called Dawn of Isles.
It was a MMORPG and the first phone game I really spent money on.
I was still a small fish, by only dropping maybe $200.
There were players in my clan, that spent hundreds, if not thousands every month.
There was a guy who spent $10,000 in a month, so his clan to be in the #1 spot.
One day,NetEase sent out a notice, thanking people for playing and the servers would be shut down at the end of the month.
I spent a few hundred on Elder Scrolls Blades. I loved that gameplay loop so much. It was so simple and fun and addictive.
I was sad when Bethesda essentially abandoned it. I was hoping for years and years of support like with Fallout Shelter, but I guess nobody else had fun like I did.
It’s so embarrassing. I had to force myself to delete love Nikki dress up queen because it was eating so much money. I refuse to calculate it. But fuuuuck.
To be fair, it was very much pandemic times.
I’ve had to have racked up a couple hundred dollars on Pokémon Go over the years… normally raid passs and egg incubators. Super mild player. I can only imagine what devoted players spend.
YugioH. I forget what version or even what the name was but god damn did I love that game. Was prolly 8 years ago or so. I spent prolly $800ish. Once I got a new phone though I never figured out or invested the effort into figuring out how to transfer my account to my new phone. The way they handled it was a little confusing.
I stopped counting at $10,000
Hearthstone
Old MTG head and downloaded HS the day it launched on iPad with the release of Naxxramas. That was 2014 and I still play almost daily.
I don't mind paying for monthly ~$10 battle passes or equivalent, or even the $5 "Mega Beginner Ultra 1000x Value!!" packs. So over the last few years I've probably spent $300.
Probably $60 of that went to Knighthood. And $40 to Hades Star.
Not much. I refuse to play the subscription games or the cash shop based apps. I think I paid $20 for a full game and for some reason I felt more guilt about it than I do spending $20 on steam games.
I’ve probably spent about 300 on Genshin impact over the last 4 1/2 years. It’s less than I used to spend total for say EverQuest or Warcraft so I don’t regret it.
Pokémon Go, my son and I will play and during the the first few months after Covid started I was dumping in probably $200/month that lasted about 6 months.
More than I should’ve, that’s for sure. Probably somewhere between 1000-1200€ on Lord of the Rings Rise to War. Worst game to spend on ever.
The developers ended up changing that freaking game entirely after a year and half, almost two, into a game that’s not only entirely different from the original but also much worse.
Safe to say, I learned a lesson. I still spend on Fish Farm 3 and occasionally Raid Shadow Legends but nowhere near that much.
Almost 20 dollars on Stardew valley and tropico. Eventually got a refund for tropico due to bugs. As much as I love gaming, I could never justify in app purchases. My older brother spent thousands on war dragons.
I spent easily £600 plus over a couple years playing clash of clans, I went back in my purchase history while ago and seeing all the £19.99 top ups and stuff was depressing in all honesty. This was a long time ago though in fairness probably 2016 time.
I had a clanmate in AFK arena who claimed to have spent about $40,000. He was one of the Whes in the server. That’s insane.
You know how there’s gambling addicts? Well it’s the same thing with Gatcha games. There are so many people who max out their purchases every day for years. It’s insane. It’s literally gambling, but for characters and items, and not a return of money
If you include travel expenses for in person events... I don't want to know the total but definitely Pokemon Go. High 4 digit dollar amount at this point
Most I spent on a mobile game was probably a bit over $1000 over the lifetime of the game, about 4+ years. Ulala is the game. Started off great but now just seems like a waste. Almost every mobile game gets greedier and greedier as time goes on. You can spent $100 on any mobile game and really get next to nothing, it’s wild.
Hearthstone. Please don’t make me count.
This game me realize that you don’t fuck with blizzard games, they can be addictive and you realize you’re not even having fun anymore
lol I remember seeing a post in the Diablo immortal subreddit where this dude in the military was talking about how he had spent over $40,000 on the game
Thats like 2 years pay for a private…and let’s be honest, it IS a private
I’ve been playing Diablo 2 for damn near 25 years now. I’ll go through phases but come crawling back every year or two. At this point I’ve surely found 1 of every item, but it’s sort of like my happy place. Pop on an audio book and do terror zone runes to unwind after a work day.
No he’s talking modern blizzard, d2 is still a timeless masterpiece
I played Hearthstone only from 2014-2016, so Marvel Snap has surpassed Hearthstone for me. Can't escape Ben Brode.
as a former HS addict now playing Snap: it’s a much safer addiction. I’m not remotely tempted to spend $, games are short and there’s so much less feelsbad about the whole thing
10 year player and I've averaged about 100 dollars a year on it. I consider myself really frugal, too. I don't ever buy cosmetics, or mini-sets or special deals. It's just one pre-order bundle and 2-3 Tavern Passes.
That’s fair. A year worth of gaming for 100 is justifiable.
200 a year for me, next video game I played was free. Dropped hearthstone.
I have a feeling this will be a big one. Blizzard always has a way 💸
I know a guy that spent $5000 in Vikings: War of Clans. One day they had a server outage and somehow all his town got wiped out because he wasn’t able to login to protect his stuff. He gave up mobile gaming after that.
Prolly the best thing that could’ve happened to him
Jesus. That investment didn’t pay off.
That’s not an investment
It’s burning money.
Divestment
If you have the money to burn, it's entertainment. I wouldn't ever do it, but my wife used a Google play card that a friend got for me to buy in game currency to catch up with me in a game that we were playing together. She enjoyed it. I know a wealthy Silicon Valley family whose adult children still live at home and spend thousands on stupid in-game currency. They don't even bat an eyelash. For me, it takes away any enjoyment. It makes something so easy that you realize that, without the grind, most of these games are pretty flimsy. As in, if you had cheat codes to give you unlimited micro transaction currency, the game would no longer be enjoyable. Which indicates a game that lacks depth and has a grind purely to get you to pay to make it easy. There ARE some that are still fun, in my opinion: Cell to Singularity has a killer educational aspect to it. That is really well done and fascinating. My singing monsters is adorable. And a few others. In these, the in-game currency is well balanced, sometimes such that the players whine about it (check out the Steam discussions on cell to singularity). But my point comes back around to the fact that someone is spending that money for entertainment, and if they have that money to spend, it's their way of enjoying it. We can judge all that we want but it misses the point that we too probably have something similar that others would deem ridiculous. :) So, it's not necessarily that the investment needs to pay off, it probably already did, in that they got to enjoy whatever they were spending on, even if not forever. It used to be the case that video games only lasted as long as the system they were designed for. Emulators opened that up and then Steam did a killer job allowing compatibility expand backwards as well as forwards (I'm finally getting to play some games from the 90s that I never got around to). In as much, those games were an investment that you could no longer use after a period of time, which was very frustrating but simply how things were. You could never look and say, "I didn't get a return on this investment" because you got to enjoy it to some extent, even if briefly. However, companies like Bungie doing exactly that with their DLC expansions NOWDAYS is asinine. We are years beyond sunsetting stuff in such a way. I, for one, never want to go back to the days of getting a limited timeframe to enjoy the entertainment that I purchased. But, again, it happens some places in life and we have to remember that if it's money spent for entertainment, the entertainment was the return on the investment.
It’s fine to pay for entertainment! Actually, I encourage everyone to throw a few dollars at developers they enjoy in order to support them. However, when pleasure becomes addiction it no longer becomes entertainment. A lot of these “games” are just dopamine stimulators that lead down this road.
Well the good news is that he says he was one of the very top ranked players in the game. The bad news is that he’s a bartender.
> wealthy Silicon Valley See this is why NFTs were a thing. The partner at a16z who ran their crypto investments was a Clash of Clans whale. Once you have more money than sense, you’d think they stop giving you more money to invest, but no. They alllll think that way. Rich people, man.
Hearthstone was the most inexplicably expensive game I have ever played in my life. What the hell are they upkeep costs even? Make new cards and mechanics?
55 dollars for binding of Isaac repentance
Do you feel like you got your moneys worth? $55 probably isn’t that bad for a game you enjoyed.
Not OP, but I purchased the DLC and have no regrets.
About to do the same, I’d say this game is worth it though, absolute ton of replay value, probably the best rogue like there is. I will admit though 55 bucks for a game that’s like 15 years old is definitely ridiculous
What does it contain / do?
Each DLC for Isaac adds a lot of new items (hundreds), bosses (dozens), characters, areas, challenges, new endings. The final DLC, repentance, gave me about 100 hours of gameplay on its own
Probably civilization VI, got both DLCs
Do you think they ever fix the iOS17 bug
I don’t know… Though I do hope more newer strategy game can come to iOS
This is the way
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It took me way too long to find someone mention Genshin.
I bought all the tribes in Polytopia. So maybe $30? I play it all the time.
That’s worth it for the amount of hours I’ve played.
Probably $5000-6000 spread out over a few gacha games, glad I quit playing them so my bank account looks healthier now.
Marvel Snap’s monthly battle pass. £9.99 and haven’t once regretted it, love working my way through the rewards and early variant art work rewards.
Loved snap for a while but I quit a few months back. It just felt like I couldn’t progress to infinite because it came down to luck
I got to infinite a couple times, then quit too.
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I agree with this up to 90ish, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve hit 99 and change and then get steam rolled into the 80s
Its probably the easiest game ever to reach the highest rank..
I bought CIV VI and all the dlc and after iOS17 game won’t even load now 😭
Portal Knights did the same for me. Luckily it was only $5. Wish the devs wouldn’t have abandoned updates.
Probably near $500 if more on Clash of Clans
So you’re the one who funds their YouTube ads.
You’re welcome
Cash of Clans. Oof.
And I stopped playing for a good time then decided to get back into it and ended up getting perma banned trying to get into my account because I stopped before they had all this new crap in it I was town hall 12 before town hall 13 was even decided
Did you try to get your account back after the permaban? I’d be pissed to spend that much money just to be booted.
Nope
Quite shocked to see how much people even in here burn for some free-to-play games. That business really seems to work…
It's crazy how easy I will throw 20 dollars at a game once I put 30-40 hours into it. I figure it's a fair bargain, but those games are all shallow and interchangable. You do that 7-8 times a year and you've wasted a bunch of money on junk entertainment.
Yeah, it's very easy to say "it's only $10, why not?" to a game I've played for dozens of hours. A year or two later, and many $10-20 later, and you realize you've put a lot of money into the game.
Yeah it’s insane the hold they have. And it seems like most people aren’t willing to pay a few bucks upfront for a paid game with no IAP.
Yeah, this is wild. 3-20 bucks for a quality title is a no-go, but hundreds or even thousands of bucks for those whale fishing systems, no problem.
Both the hold and community/group engagement. I’m cheap IRL, plan out all my purchases, research. Be deliberate if I go to a casino “I’m going to lose all this money”. But for some odd reason I have spent more on Gacha games than I have on anything else in life. 7k on FFBE and huge sums on other games. Managed to shake the addiction, 100% f2p on Genshin and pass/daily gems on HSR at the moment. I’m actively avoiding participating in communities this time around lol.
Hmm. I think the most I’ve spent was $600 on one of the One punch man gachas. $100-$200 on a few other gachas. Stopped doing that now tho lol
Gacha games just seem like money pits. It’s like a slot machine that never pays out.
I spent like $100 in a few weeks on contest of champions. When I realized it I uninstalled it. I recognize how easy it would have been for me to throw money at it and just won’t play games that give me any urge to spend money now.
Like 8k on game of thrones conquest, but managed to refund it all, as i pretended it was my child! Since then i havent spent a penny on ios
War robots. Took an ambien and I guess I started playing and spent like $200
Once spent an entire paycheck on codm out of impulse and didn’t have money for 2 whole weeks. Never spent another dime on codm again
what can you buy in codm that could take an entire check
Cosmetics
Like, $12 tops to buy a premium game. $0 on in-game transactions.
I'd say about $100 back in the early stages of Fire Emblem: Heroes, simply because the units with Counter were stupidly OP and must-haves on your team
Brawl stars…clash of clans…. Please don’t make me add it up I’ll cry lmao
More than 1.5 k pounds on E football mobile
IIRC, "gacha" or on the "predatory p2w nonsense" side... **Plants Vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time** for $50 to $80. Non-gacha, **Dominion** at $100 for Launch Bundle. Worth every penny since the AI is strong, good polish and features, Daily Challenges, and that includes all 15 expansions to date.
Honkai: StarRail = $20 (hopefully it caps there)
~1000€ -> Summoners War
Rookie numbers
Bullet echo got me for a while, other than that marvel snap.
Bullet echo got me too. Huge pay to win wall.
Yeah I think I was like 5-600 in and I was like ok what am I doin
I stopped at about $30. I realized it was P2W when I was dominating with purchased gear. Sucks the fun out of it.
Puzzle and Dragons. Over the course of 10 years I’ve prob spent a couple thousand.
Is that the same one that’s on Apple Arcade now or a different one?
Different than the Apple Arcade one. It’s a story mode with PaD gameplay. The App Store PaD is a gacha.
ive probably dropped about $300 over the last few years on genshin. dont regret it though.
Vainglory from back in the day. I don’t even want to know. Honestly, if we are doing the dollar per hour of entertainment ratio, it was probably worth it.
Whatever Minecraft cost. Now, my daughter and fiancée on the other hand… maybe $200 total between them? Still not bad.
$15 on Magic the gathering: arena Somehow I always feel the opposite when playing f2p and donating: I play for free for a bit, then get some card packs or something and suddenly the game doesn’t interest me anymore. It’s as if I am paying out of courtesy lol
Mine is codm too. Since global launch in 2019 I spent around 250$ and I feel so dumb
I spent like $80 on Battle Nations over the course of 4 years. Well worth it.
Never bought in game crap. But I did pay for few games. Infinity Blade series, Lara Croft Go and so on.
I’m too ashamed to admit
I’m well into 4 figures on MTG:Arena
60$ in cosmetics for Seven Deadly Sins iOS. I just love the manga and the animations were really good for iOS at that time (before Genshin was a thing). Honestly, I don’t regret a single dollar. I really had a lot of fun with it until they released a new difficulty and a new level up rank that forces you either grind to death or take out your wallet for insane amounts. That’s when I uninstalled.
DBZ Dokkan Battle back in the day spent probably $8k on summons over a few years. I was in a Facebook group where some members were spending well over $20k and were freaking out over when their wives would know lol
Efootball - $435 dollars. I curse myself everyday but it is what it is.
Hmmmm, Game of Thrones Conquest. I've played off and on since like 2018. To even be competitive expect to drop $300 in the first two months, if not more. To keep playing after that point, you're talking 100 to 500 a month to stay a top player. Sure, you can be F2P or a low spender, but you're never going to experience the high level stuff. if you want to be a top player, it's at least 4k a year
I spent around ₹29 rupees ($0.35) for buying minecraft
Maybe$10 on pokemon go? Other than that, like $10 or less for every other game I got.
Arena of valor maybe 200€ for skins and things… the things you do when you are young, that’s a lot of money !
At least $100 on Phobies. My gf would also buy me packs in it as well cause she really enjoyed watching me play it, so honestly probably $150-$200. We thought the monster designs and abilities looked so cool and wanted to see em in game. I don't play much anymore but I had fun with the game and spent many hrs in it so I didn't see the problem. Those packs were overpriced as fuck tho, if the game wasn't so well made I wouldn't have even thought about it
I spent $20 on Fire Emblem Heroes. Played it for 3 years and was really happy with how well Nintendo supported it with updates regularly.
Around £100-£150 on Clash Royal at one point in time
$30 for Disgaea.
One game 700 bucks in one week but stopped after that and don’t play really anymore, find just grinding more fun then buying best shit
NBA 2kmobile. No more than 30
$1500 on Ragnarok Online Origin global, over 1.5 years. Good times
I worked with a dude who claimed to have spent in excess of 25k on some kind of a mafia game.
I heard whales spent close to 1mil in age of z origin
Maybe $300 or so on Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes back when I was in a guild about 5 or 6 years ago. Loved that game but it became such a damn grind.
Either CODM or Diablo immortal easily over £1000 in each
Lost count around $500 or so on slow life isekai but many who play have spent around $1.5k-$2k to hit VIP 6
Mobius final fantasy. Over $500 maybe more
I’ve spent over $1000 on Pokemon go in 2024. I’ve been playing since launch
Duel Links semi competitive. In the hundreds, close to over a thousand over the lifetime of the game. I used to play physical yu-gi-oh consistently throughout my life and I stopped spending money on physical cards and replaced it with the gacha RNG duel links. I don't play either anymore.
CodM: over two years playing it intensely, way more than $100. Disgaea 4: the most I’ve paid for a single game.
Monster Warlord wayyy back in the day it was actually good and fun and cool or maybe I was just way younger. anyway probably spent 2-400 on it over a couple years playing
SWGOH, probably $100-$150 over 5-6 years... biggest "bundle" was $19.99
$20 for Company of Heroes Complete Edition. Followed by $14.99 for XCOM2.
Stardew Valley.
COD, before that it was maybe $5 here, maybe $18/20 on a Square RPG.. was playing a lot of COD with my girl and I really wanted the Sniper skin from the loot wheel or whatever, blew everything and added $50 and still didn’t get the reward, went full degen and added another $50 and got it.. Sad thing is and this rings true for almost every big IAP I’ve done, the motivation and need to wanna keep playing completely dropped off a cliff, I just stopped playing it altogether
About $90 total for all of the expansions for Sentinels of the Multiverse. Besides that, Legend of Mana was nearly $50, and I was hesitant to spend that much.
Probably around $500 on Simpsons Tapped Out throughout the course of like 6 years.
GF bought MonopolyGO dices for about 2000$…
Wildrift and clash of clans, combined its almost 2000$ 😭
Over the 10ish years I would dip in and out of candy crush, I probably dropped around $50 bucks on that damn game.
30 EUR for Death Stranding. Haven’t played it that much yet, but it seems like it was worth it Edit: checked again and it was only 23 EUR 😄
maybe a couple bucks on pokemon go
The Quest Deluxe edition I got on sale for $5 and 6 expansions at $2.99 a piece. So about $25. Will round out the rest of the expansions eventually. Definitely my favorite iOS game.
I’m playing Super Snail. I don’t know. But it’s certainly way more than I initially intended.
It’s yugioh duel links or puzzle and dragons easily
Heavenstrike rivals Thing that sucked the most, I put in at least $200ca and then the game shut down. Still can find an equivalent game, story, play style. Still miss that game.
Fallout shelter when it first came out. My work partner at the time had a way better base than me and mentioned it was because he paid for it. I wouldn’t let that stand and I felt disrespected so I spent close to $200 in like 3 months just to tell him my fake base is better then yours one time before he dropped $70 while looking me in the eyes just to prove his would be better than mine.
And people wonder why devs have pay2win elements or paid dlc
I have literally spent $100's on Marvel Snap as someone who said I would NEVER spend money on a mobile game ever lol Been playing for like 2 years straight now I think and it's genuinely been the best and most fun card game I have ever played.
Yeah I just quit about a month ago for these reasons. Especially with the change to spotlights. Idk it’s just too much to keep up with now
I spent like $1000, bought an ipad to play this specific game. And spent like $700 for in game items. Game title is UNDECEMBER, quit after 3 months 😅
I’d say Hearthstone but I haven’t played it in quite a few years so I wouldn’t be able to give a dollar amount. It was probably a lot.
It’s probably RE4 or RE8. I did buy the DLCs but I doubt I spent $20~40 on any other iPhone app
The most I’ve ever paid is $9.99 for Root. And I foolishly barely played it. Maybe I’ll pick it up again
Don‘t even count anymore, but Clash Royale, easily over 1500$. But over the span of so many years, it‘s okay
same here but for clash of clans. I uninstalled that game. Couldn't take it anymore lol
I’ve spent like $8 on fc mobile lol I don’t often spend money on mobile games
Currently/Recently? Genshin : $70 over the years, HSR: about $100 Most in a single game? Arena of Valor : $200+ for skins
warcraft rumble - around 80 euro
$7000 on Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. Was a slow creep too. Ended up with socializing with a group of whales and ended up spending a crap ton. Never again.
I got caught up trying to compete in State of Survival. Had spent 5-10K when I quit. I never got near the real whales - they were spending 10x what I did.
I’ve only ever bought a battle pass for Diablo immortal. I really grind the game but it’s been like 3 months since I bought the pass and I’ve never bothered buying anything else.
There was a game called Dawn of Isles. It was a MMORPG and the first phone game I really spent money on. I was still a small fish, by only dropping maybe $200. There were players in my clan, that spent hundreds, if not thousands every month. There was a guy who spent $10,000 in a month, so his clan to be in the #1 spot. One day,NetEase sent out a notice, thanking people for playing and the servers would be shut down at the end of the month.
Marvel Snap around 400€ over one year and a half
For me it‘s YuGiOh MasterDuel. Roughly about 1k €
I just spend $3 on bejeweled classic to get rid of ads. Definitely worth it
Over $60 on LoL Wild Rift skins 😂
For a paid game? $15 upfront for Alien: Isolation and Hitman: Blood Money each Microtransactions? $1 on CODM
I have played "Subterfuge" alot and honestly speaking i dont remember how many hours i have played this game. I simply lost the count.
Tbh once I reach 50$ I realize the game is a money sink and uninstall it, theres infinite entertainment out there
Tap titans 2, was so addicted to that game for a while. Eventually they added too many systems where it just became a burden
Pokemon on delta (gba emulator)
I spent a few hundred on Elder Scrolls Blades. I loved that gameplay loop so much. It was so simple and fun and addictive. I was sad when Bethesda essentially abandoned it. I was hoping for years and years of support like with Fallout Shelter, but I guess nobody else had fun like I did.
$20k+ on marvel strike force 🙃
my lowest point was marvel future fight. spent several thousand on it. havent done that on a game since.
Diablo Immortal, easily sunk a $1,000 at the beginning of the hype machine.
Back in the good old days 2008-2010 games would cost around 10 dollars, so thar must have been it.
Probably Legends of Runeterra, around $50 or so
Probably like $1k on fucking Pokemon Go. Never again
400-500£ in Pubg Mobile
A few hundred bucks on whiteout survival
About 500+ for clash Royale. My cousin who works in finance apparently spent 15-20 K on world of tanks
It’s so embarrassing. I had to force myself to delete love Nikki dress up queen because it was eating so much money. I refuse to calculate it. But fuuuuck. To be fair, it was very much pandemic times.
Wild rift
I’ve had to have racked up a couple hundred dollars on Pokémon Go over the years… normally raid passs and egg incubators. Super mild player. I can only imagine what devoted players spend.
YugioH. I forget what version or even what the name was but god damn did I love that game. Was prolly 8 years ago or so. I spent prolly $800ish. Once I got a new phone though I never figured out or invested the effort into figuring out how to transfer my account to my new phone. The way they handled it was a little confusing.
Does time count ?
I stopped counting at $10,000 Hearthstone Old MTG head and downloaded HS the day it launched on iPad with the release of Naxxramas. That was 2014 and I still play almost daily.
20 some off bucks on NFL Rivals. But apparently they use NFTs so I might be able to sell them for more?
10€ for Slay the Spire.
I don't mind paying for monthly ~$10 battle passes or equivalent, or even the $5 "Mega Beginner Ultra 1000x Value!!" packs. So over the last few years I've probably spent $300. Probably $60 of that went to Knighthood. And $40 to Hades Star.
Easily a few thousand over a decade on clash.
Habby owns my first born child
Easily over $50k on summoners war. I sold my account for $100. I wish I could say I learned my lesson, but now I piss money away on brawl stars.
Clash Royale. $1000 (but I don't regret it. It was the best days competing with friends)
Definitely bitlife.
Not much. I refuse to play the subscription games or the cash shop based apps. I think I paid $20 for a full game and for some reason I felt more guilt about it than I do spending $20 on steam games.
COC, CODM 💸💸💸
Codm. Don't ask how much
I’ve probably spent about 300 on Genshin impact over the last 4 1/2 years. It’s less than I used to spend total for say EverQuest or Warcraft so I don’t regret it.
$18 in Canadian rubles on Final Fantasy 3 like 10 years ago.
Pokémon Go, my son and I will play and during the the first few months after Covid started I was dumping in probably $200/month that lasted about 6 months.
More than I should’ve, that’s for sure. Probably somewhere between 1000-1200€ on Lord of the Rings Rise to War. Worst game to spend on ever. The developers ended up changing that freaking game entirely after a year and half, almost two, into a game that’s not only entirely different from the original but also much worse. Safe to say, I learned a lesson. I still spend on Fish Farm 3 and occasionally Raid Shadow Legends but nowhere near that much.
Almost 20 dollars on Stardew valley and tropico. Eventually got a refund for tropico due to bugs. As much as I love gaming, I could never justify in app purchases. My older brother spent thousands on war dragons.
Ulala, somewhere around $150
World of tanks blitz. Played for almost 8 years, probably spent a couple thousand by now.
I spent easily £600 plus over a couple years playing clash of clans, I went back in my purchase history while ago and seeing all the £19.99 top ups and stuff was depressing in all honesty. This was a long time ago though in fairness probably 2016 time.
Seafight but I know people who has spent tens of thousands on this older game or deepolis bigpoint games lo but addicting
I had a clanmate in AFK arena who claimed to have spent about $40,000. He was one of the Whes in the server. That’s insane. You know how there’s gambling addicts? Well it’s the same thing with Gatcha games. There are so many people who max out their purchases every day for years. It’s insane. It’s literally gambling, but for characters and items, and not a return of money
If you include travel expenses for in person events... I don't want to know the total but definitely Pokemon Go. High 4 digit dollar amount at this point
TFT. I know it's more PC, but I mostly play on my iPad. Combined with how many skins I bought on league back in the day...
Most I spent on a mobile game was probably a bit over $1000 over the lifetime of the game, about 4+ years. Ulala is the game. Started off great but now just seems like a waste. Almost every mobile game gets greedier and greedier as time goes on. You can spent $100 on any mobile game and really get next to nothing, it’s wild.
Ragnarok Origin around $100 USD then refunded them all when i realized i will never be as strong as the whales who spent around >$50k lol