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Around £140ish (The last 3-4 years of gaming for me have been trash, so I've spent little on AAA games and more on indies), well, going by the deals I find via Humble bundle, GMG or free games found anywhere else that interest me.

I'm only paying every 6 months for ESO, since I've dropped my WoW and FFXIV subs, so that remains a constant drain on cash per year, though just twice every year (which is cheaper for me than paying per month in the long-run).

2017 was the time I upgraded my rig a second time, as well as adding in a monitor, but the upgrade/monitor expenses were not as high, though the following year, buying a Switch and paying full price for said games on there, quickly managed to mount up the amount spent during that year (which is why I've decided to spend less on the Switch and just wait for deals instead).

Not really one to disclose my earnings.

Last edited by Chazore - on 13 March 2019

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Average of about €250 a year I guess, but it varies (depends on whether or not I'm buying a new console). I think it was about €400 in 2017 and €100 in 2018. In 2019 there are 4 games I'm looking forward too, so that should be €240.



Probably went from somewhere around $750 a year (let's say one full priced game a month and a bit of my most recent console purchase to round up) to somewhere around $100 a year (about 3 big releases discounted along with a handful of smaller games and DLC, also transitioned to Linux full time so my console games purchases are more limited).

My gaming related purchases really went through the floor once I got into college (even though my purchasing power has gone quite a way up).



Zero $.

I spend €.



Hunting Season is done...

I have spent $640 in 2018 (ps4).
$390 on sony exclusives and ps plus.



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It varies, I spent quite a bit in the last half of 2018, and a fair amount in the first half, probably upwards of 700$ all in all, but this year is looking much slower. I estimate I'll probably spend no more than half that amount this year.



A lot. In 2017 it was around 1500$ I guess. Don't remember exactly but there was a year-end thread here on VGC where I posted my spendings. Last year I've stopped counting after I went past 1500$ mark, probably 2500-3000$. I work as a full time software engineer.



 

I'm too scared to even figure it out... so please don't ask questions like this :)



Making an indie game : Dead of Day!

In actual money, less than $250 a year. I rack up a ton of best buy points through paying bills, gas and groceries through their visa card. I'm making an effort to play my backlog so that's been helping in recent years.
this year however, I'm seeing at least $250 from Switch games alone and maybe another $150 from sony.



I spent $240-$280 in 2018. I funded that with a bit of work here and there, but mostly college loan.

So far in 2019 I spent $5 on Paradox Humble bundle, mainly for EU4. That will skyrocket a bit, when I buy my brother a gift.