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[SHA]

I was born patient literally, at age 3, I started, instead of saving, I started investing in real estate, lived bellow my means for 20 years, in year 2006 when I started seeing the shift with digits, it was a relief since then. but I don't think that lifestyle is acceptable to genzers today, their secret weapon is using their head and I don't think anybody would argue with that opinion.


In gaming, I took break between both these different lifestyles, I think 11 years if I'm not mistaken, adding depression without being diagnosed for 5 years cause I was clueless. Yes, I may be different cause it looks like my midlife crisis happened in my 20s.

 

[Caffeine]

Didn't change at all.

 

[killatopak]

Yes. More like we have shitty dollar exchange rate so even $60 games went up a quarter of the price not to mention $70 dollar ones. Steam is basically the only place where there are regional pricing in my area so I’ve been playing more on PC lately.

 

[JimmyRustler]

No, and the fact that that so little good games are being released these days means there is no need the change anything. I’m basically down to 2 games a month max. That’s nothing that’ll make me poor.

 

[n0razi]

Gaming is honestly a cheap hobby unless you are chasing benchmark scores on PC.

 

[IntentionalPun]

No. Restaurants seemed to have gone down I quality since COVID so my wife started making more food at home. I know groceries are more expensive but we were ordering like $300 worth of food a week before lol

 

[Shadowstar39]

yes.
I don't buy $70 titles unless I know I will love it or a big fan of the game series (Silent hill, mgs, Thief, Baldurs gate, witcher, etc)...
$70 is too close to 100 for me. And before some punk starts spouting about n64 games costing that much, well I didn't own an n64. I owned a ps1.
Games were not 70 on ps1. $50 max but usually after a bit down to $20. I remember going to the local game store (before gamestop) and picking up 3 games for $50 many times.

I buy mostly indies, and get older games on steam as well as racking up a ton of ps2, wii/gc games at antique/retro shops for cheap.
Games I spent full 70 price this year:
Dragons Dogma 2,
Silent Hill remake

$60 is closer to 50 so in my mind I am more appt to pull the trigger on a purchase. (why gaming companies don't see this).
I liked that Stalker 2 is 60 (picked it up on xbox) and same with Astrobot. (picked that up too)

Now I also got a ton of switch games on sale on eshop and physical on sale.
Got the following this year on the switch alone:
Stalker legend of the zone trilogy.
Dragon quest monster dark prince
Mega man battle network collection.
Castlevania Dominus collection
Romancing Saga 2 remake
Ys 10
Unicorn Overlord
Drova
Shadows of the Damned
Lollipop chainsaw
Force unleashed
Balatro
Astrilbria and Gaiden
Company of heroes
Shotgun king
SMT 5 vengence
Atelier dusk trilogy
Loop hero
front mission 1 &2
EDF world bros 2
Metroid Dread
Octopath 1
Wonderboy
Cult of lamb
Double dragon rise of the dragons
Urbeck

Ok yeah ok , ok i guess i didn't stop my spending, just didn't buy 70 dollar shit. Lost of switch sales ususally under $30.

Now i won't even go into the pc. Lets just say tons of indies like Songs of Syx, Pharoh new era, Manor lords, etc..

 

[TwiztidElf]

No.
I have bought less games this year due to there being fewer good games.
Oh, and I'm far, far pickier buying digital games.
(The good ones have all been bangers though - all the awesome JRPGs).

 

[TheChumpNation]

I've cut a lot of other things down (eating out most of all) but gaming represents pretty good value for me generally. Haven't changed those habits in the slightest honestly.

I've been avoiding buying new releases at full price for awhile now, but that predates the recent crises and has more to do with a desire to actually play some of the games in my backlog before adding entries to it.

 

[DaciaJC]

No. I'm already quite selective in what games I buy. To date this year, I've purchased five games, one of which was a DLC (Shadow of the Erdtree), which is pretty bang-on average for me.

I tend to spend a lot more money on hardware, and that hasn't changed either.

 

[IDKFA]

Yes. The cost of food, electricity and gas has skyrocketed in the UK over recent years. It means buying far less games than I used to.

 

[Shifty1897]

Has it affected my purchasing? No.
Should it have? Yes.

 

[Isa]

For games yes, but that money shifted over to boutique Films(collector's edition style stuff) and building up our movie and show library. Also a lot of manga and art books. It wasn't out of necessity but just the state of the industry. Both our taste's(my gf and I) and wants from the gaming industry aren't being served for the most part so we looked elsewhere. And we used to be yuuuuge! spenders in the hobby. This year is the first one in over a decade where we spent so little on the hobby, but this time fortunately finances weren't the issue.