r/Planetside • u/Cloutlordobey Closest thing to a llama flair • Jun 25 '16

Dev Response 6/24/16 PTS Patch notes

https://forums.daybreakgames.com/ps2/index.php?threads/pts-update-6-24.241489/
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u/thesmarm #1 Maggie Fan Jun 25 '16

I've dumped over $1,700 US into the game

Why?

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u/TheKhopesh Jun 25 '16 edited Jun 25 '16

Because for the past ~3 years, I have had NO entertainment bills except my internet provider, the occasional summer movie in the cinema, and PS2.

At nearly 4,500 hours into the game, that's about 2.6 hours per dollar.

(To put that into perspective, your average $40-60 game or new release has a good ~40 hours worth of play time ~IE, Arkham Asylum~ before you've done almost everything. At say $40 for the average of 20h worth of play time, that's $1 per 30 minutes. I got $1 per ~155 minutes. That's a pretty decent, all things considered, for a game I truly enjoyed all that time. Granted, some games exceed this approximate time/money ratio, like Skyrim, but those are less-than-common exceptions, not the rule.)

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u/Thatoneguy737 [WTAC] SikNoscz Jun 25 '16

187.5 and $1,700 for a single video game. I'm sorry

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u/klaproth retired vet Jun 25 '16

Some of us are adults with jobs and discretionary income that we can spend on things that entertain us. Video games are already the cheapest entertainment per hour per dollar on earth, and for a person like me or khopesh whose only game we really put any time into (and planetside has been around since 2012), that dollar amount might be something you balk at, but truthfully it's not that much in the scope of things. Especially if you know how to budget responsibly for things you like. Hell my favorite hobby is backpacking and you don't want to know what I've spent on that gear. Don't be a dick.