Skyrim price per hour?

[scegielski]

I can't think of a game that I have gotten more value out of than Skyrim. Compared to the standard 10 to 20 hours of game play that can be expected from most single player games on the market, the Bethesda games stand far above the rest in terms of value. So just for fun, I wanted to know how much I am paying per hour of game play. I calculate this by simply dividing the purchase price which I estimated at $60 by the number of hours I have played, 1324 :ohmy: . In my case it works out to $0.04 which is 4 cents per hour. Compare this to the above example of 20 hours and it's $3.00 per hour. Or going to the movies for 2 hours at around $7 per hour. I am curious how much value other people are getting from Skyrim? :laugh:

[Hyacathusarullistad]

I bought the game when it was brand new, for $59.99, before I even had a computer to run it. I then paid full price for each of the DLCs, which as I recall was $5 for HF and $15 for each DG and DB. That was over Steam, so it was in USD. Convert that to CAD, and it becomes more or less $49. That brings my total to $108.99. Which seems like a lot. :blink:

 

I have 3112 hours logged as of this evening. So that means I've paid about ~$0.035 an hour.

 

But if you add to that the fact that I bought both the standard and later the Legendary version of the official game guides, that's another ~$100 ($40 for the standard, $60 for the hardcover Legendary). So that brings my total to $208.99. And then we could count the Elder Scrolls Anthology, which was $90 itself. Let's say that the first two games came free, because they can be downloaded free and legally from UESP; so Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim were $30 each. That would bring my total to $238.99.

 

If you divide that by my playtime I've spent a total of ~$0.07/hour for what can only be adequately described as my Skyrim habit. Still better than a lot of other habits though, I'd say.

Edited August 16, 2014 by Hyacathusarullistad

[ambria]

Bought skyrim when it was new & all dlc's

I did also upgrade my PC for playing games, mostly skyrim

 

But I've spent 1000+ hours and around 500 in creationkit too

No regrets

[yudhi108]

I've spent a few hundred bucks on Skyrim over the years (have played it on ps3, 360, and a few pc's). Worth every penny. It's probably the only game as old as it is that's still selling so much. Except maybe some MMO games like WoW or something.

[deRusett]

The only 2 games I would say I have gotten more out of over the years and will continue to get more out of over Skyrim are Age of Empires 2, and Stronghold Crusader.

 

Age of Empires 2 has been installed on every personal PC I've had since the end of 1999. My father still plays it on his desktop, and it was on 2 of the last 3 of my wifes laptops. We played many games together before the kids were born. The revisions and additions to the game only made it better and now being on steam I've rid myself of carrying a CD around. I play at least 200 hours every year about 75/25 single player vs Multiplayer.

 

Stronghold Crusader was a follow up to Stronghold which I lived for in Second year University playing anyone and everyone I could find. When crusader hit I spent a solid month 10 hours a day playing the game or talking about the game on a crusader website, I became part of a website and build guides and walk throughs people actually purchased the PDF's of, It was a life consuming game, I occasionally played AOE2 or Battlefield 1942 during those first 3 months of Stronghold Crusader being out, but my love of that game always made me go back. As the game gets older and the online community faded off I played less and less because the AI was just to simple. a second version is coming out this September and I'm giddy to buy it and play

[zanshibumi]

For me, the only non free game that can compare in price per hour in the recent years is TF2.

 

A few years ago I wouldn't have believed one could spend so much time on a single player game.

[notmyhome]

I got Empire Earth for free from a friend who didn't like it...

Played it for years...

But apart from that, Skyrim should actually have the highest value.

[Jeir]

£30/320 hours = 93p/hr. Give or take. Got DLC as gifts.

 

I spent more on Oblivion and played a lot more. Spent less on Morrowind and played more than both Skyrim/Oblivion together. At least, in my guestimation, as neither MW or OB are Steam ones.

[Shubal]

I'm probably into negative numbers and owe Beth an additional payment or something.

[oranges4ever]

I got Skyrim (Legendary Edition) in April for 49 dollars. I've racked up nearly 700 hours, probably now finished with it for a while.

Cost per hour: 7 cents plus occasional complaints from wife.