SE4's Value

[Suicide Junkie]

How much have you paid for SE products, and how long have you been playing?

1) Tally up the purchase price of your SE stuff.
2) Tally up the approximate number of hours you've been playing. (x hours a week, y weeks a year, z years)
Note: Only include hours actually spent on SE4, not time spent sleeping, working or eating. (Unless you were actually playing SE4 in your cubicle or while you ate)
3) Divide (1) by (2), and vote for the matching price range.

[Captain Kwok]

I came in at just over 0.04$ per hour. I estimated approximately 2850 hours over nearly 5 years, with $125 invested.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Um...A little to lots?

[Suicide Junkie]

Beta testing copies, combined with playing during class at University really drove my total down to the penny-an-hour mark.

I didn't count the copies I bought for other people, though.

[El_Phil]

OK so I accidently hit the wrong entry and put in >$1 and not <$0.01. What can I say, the use of a strange green coloured currency put me off.

That and I've just stumbled back from the pub and have started drunken interneteeteting.

[Puke]

Suicide Junkie said:
I didn't count the copies I bought for other people, though.

i did. and factored in PBW donation. do you know how much i'll cry if PBW goes offline? we need to keep supporting Geo.

[Puke]

about 250 in, roughly 2400 hours. right in the 0.10 range. which suggests that its time for a donation to PBW.

[Will]

Well, IIRC it was $25 for SEIII, and $40 each for SEIV Gold and SE:SF (had beta copy of SEIV Classic). So that's $105...

Hours played, I couldn't really even begin to estimate. I've been playing for around 9 years now, but a lot of the time played is weighted to the earlier years. I guessed about 4000 hours total, so that puts me at about $0.026/hour. But if I broke it up into the games, then it would be:
SEII: 0/hour (never bought, only played shareware)
SEIII: $0.005/hour (played this a LOT)
SEIV Classic: 0/hour (see beta comment above)
SEIV Gold: $0.10/hour (only got it this past summer)
SE:SF: $0.75/hour (haven't really played it much...)

[Renegade 13]

I said somewhere aroud 5 cents, but it could very easily be lower than that. I can't even guess how many hours I've spent playing.

[Atrocities]

The value of the game far exceeds the purchase price. In fact I feel like I have robbed Shrapnel and Malfador.... man I only paid $40.00 bucks for this game and have gotten five years of play out of it...... Laughing all the way to the key board.