SE4's Value

[Renegade 13]

In my opinion, you can't put a value on SEIV, since the enjoyment I've received and continue to receive is worth a lot more than money to me.

[Kamog]

It's hard to estimate how many hours I've spent playing. I just know it's many many hours. I know I've started hundreds of games, almost all of which I've never finished but usually I spend at least a week playing, most of them more than that. Usually there's the 8-hour or longer continuous sessions over the weekend and somewhat shorter evening sessions every day while I'm playing. But there's also periods of time in the last few years that I didn't touch SEIV for weeks. That's when I'm either busy with work or I was playing some other game.

[Captain Kwok]

I think some people are over estimating their hours played... I mean so many have choosen 1 cent or less, I wonder if they realize that's an average of 2-3 hours per day over the last 4-5 years based on just spending $40 for the game alone...?

[Fyron]

I am not sure how that is over-estimation?

[NullAshton]

I got it free, for christmas, so I'm already paid for it 100%.

[Captain Kwok]

Imperator Fyron said:I am not sure how that is over-estimation?

I didn't think the results were realistic and that people had overestimated their hours playing. And if you've been around 4-5 years playing SE:IV you've likely bought both classic and gold - at least 65$. So that means you'd need 6500 hours in that same time frame which is an average of 3-4 hr/day.

[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.

[PvK]

I suspect people are challenged by the math, estimation, lack of data and/or willpower involved in seriously trying to estimate this.

[Blueentity]

For myself, compare the purchase price of SEIII and SEIV vs years of enjoyment? Don’t even have to do the math to figure out this equation; but I will add two more:

For the years that the SEIII kept me sane at work-priceless

Two summers ago, my son, who was 8 at the time, was enjoying my SEIV demo. “Dad, I want to get the full version”. Mostly, he wanted to be able to open and close warp points like we could on SEIII. “Alright,” I replied, “Figure out a way to earn some money and I’ll split the cost with you.” That summer, mostly by pulling weeds, he earned his money a little bit at a time by doing odd jobs. Even if we never touch the game again, the lesson he learned that summer in planning and working for what he wanted will be worth far more than any monetary “value” assigned to a game.

[Intimidator]

Captain Kwok said:
Imperator Fyron said:I am not sure how that is over-estimation?

I didn't think the results were realistic and that people had overestimated their hours playing. And if you've been around 4-5 years playing SE:IV you've likely bought both classic and gold - at least 65$. So that means you'd need 6500 hours in that same time frame which is an average of 3-4 hr/day.

I took an average of 1 hour an day, and I think that's realistic. Because there are also days (that extremly pathetic days) that I played for 8 to 10 hours straight (And I know that I'm not the only one)

And now I'm still only counted playing time, didn't even involve the time I ussed on: modding, searching/downloading mods and shipsets , created/hosted PBW games and offcourse all the hours spend on this forum !!!!!


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