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Reader Discussion – What Game Have You Spent The Most Money On?
Blizzard recently broke down the odds of getting rare items in Overwatch's loot boxes (not out of the kindess of their hearts, mind you: there's a legal reason for it). Will companies have to be more transparent with their in-game slot machines in the future? Will companies scale back how exploitative they are know that they may be forced to show these odds? Who knows! I have a better question: what's the most a game has managed to wring your wallet for?
My obvious answer is Dota 2, a game I've spent $700 on over the course of five years. That sounds pretty bad, until you consider I am currently sitting at 3084 hours, which averages to about 27 cents per hour played. That's not bad! Still, I could stand to spend less on all the items Valve adds to the game, especially since I'm running out of equippable slots to place all these doodads in.
What about you? What's the most you've ever spent on a game? Did you buy one of those $250 Destiny 2 special editions? Have you ever been one of those people that buys the $100 option in mobile games? Have you literally never spent a single dollar playing a video game? Sound off in the comments below.
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