Whats The Most You've Ever Paid For A Game?

DY357LX · February 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">The things we do for games eh</div> I've just splashed out £60 on Metroid Prime for my GameCube.
Thing is, it's an American version so I had to pay an extra £20
on the Free-Loader accesory so I could load the game up!

So thats £80 for one game! I could have purchased 3-4 GameCube
games for that price!
But it's Metroid... as we all know, Samus Aran rules.
The UK release isn't for at LEAST another month and the Free-Loader
will allow me to import more games, like Zelda :-D

So its money well spent.... and i'm going to see Final Destination 2
tonight which means i'll be spending even more ££££.... anyone want to
buy a Kidney? <img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

QUICK CURRENCY EDIT: £80 is just under $130 (USD)

Post your stories about paying "over the odds" for titles.

Venmoch · February 2003

I paid about £40 for UT2003. It was fun for a few days, then it got lame.

But that was paid off! I got No One Lives Forever 2 free!

Dirty_Harry_Potter · February 2003

400 Danish kr. - about 40£
basic price for a game(at least here in denamrk):
300-400kr. for a new one
200-300kr. for a relativly new one on sale,
100-200kr. for a pretty old one, or a relativly new one on discount.

1£ = 10kr.

Nemesis_Zero · February 2003

I once payed 40€ (1:1 in $) for Breathe of Fire 2 (SNES), realized it was an American module, and dished another 60€ for the conversion module.

The most expensive game I ever bought was Young Merlin, also for the SNES. 80 bucks, and it sucked butt.

FlatlineUTD · February 2003

I think the most I've ever spent is around $50... and it was probably for a Blizzard game.

Burr · February 2003

I think I shelled oout $60 for Red Alert 2, special edition.

DOOManiac · February 2003

I payed $150 to play Metroid Prime, because at the time I had no gamecube. :P

But that doesn't compare to the $300 I spent to play DOOM back when I only had a 286 and had to upgrade. :)

Dubers · February 2003

About £40 odd quid on vice city when it came out. Wasn't even for me it was for part of my girlfriends birthday presents! Now thats love guys! <img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'>

Sirus · February 2003

Breath of fire was a good game, so was chrono trigger =D

I think the most ive payed was 60$, i feel terrible for spending so much.

Ramses · February 2003

I still can't really belief what I've done:

I've paid 92,90€ (~80 USD) for the WarCraft III Collectors Edition.

WarCraft III CE...= 79,90 €
Shipping..............= 13,00 €
_____________________
Total....................= 92,90 €

I think it was worth it, but it's still hard to think about for me...

Dezmodium · February 2003

Paid a hard earned $60 on Warcraft 3 in a collectors box with a strategy guide and a DVD with all the cinematics on it.

Killymagee · February 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DuBERS @ Feb 10 2003, 05:05 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> About £40 odd quid on vice city when it came out. Wasn't even for me it was for part of my girlfriends birthday presents! Now thats love guys! <img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'>  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
You lucky !@#$% have a girlfriend that acutally PLAYS video games!! <img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

110 CND for perfect dark and the ram upgrade (for N64) then I returned it all after I beat it! <img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

KboT · February 2003

I paied about $93 (Canadian) for Warcraft III...

Dubers · February 2003

Yeh she cool like that but the scary thing is she enjoys the killing part more than actually playing the game... disturbed or what?

Nuketheplace · February 2003

My borther payed 60$(U.S) for morrowind collectors edition. It was worth it though.

GreyPaws · February 2003

Hitman 2 $54.99 (after tax)

But if you count the 3 years I spent playing Gemstone 3 then the total would be $14*36 = $504 Eww didnt realize it was that bad, keep in mind Gemstone was a MUDD (text based MMRPG for you younglings)

Then there is the total I spent on the Half-Life Empire

HL x 3 (heheh I had 3 comouters at one point in time)
Opp Force x 2

39+39+9.99+29+29 = 145 ? plus tax

Sancho · February 2003

$70

Warcraft III Collectors

What a waste <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'>

AllUrHiveRblong2us · February 2003

I have never spent more than 50$ on a single game, but one time a bought a sega saturn with 40 games for 150$.

Wait, that;'s not a lot at all.

BioHaz · February 2003

I think mine would have to be $60 for Red Faction when it came out ($10 pre order and $50 for the rest)... Freakin Software ETC... But at least I got a decent Music CD with the preorder.

But the "purchase" that I found dissapointing was my $40 spent in Project Entropia. What a waste [of time and money] that was. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'> PE Devs

saint0z · February 2003

79.99 for the diablo 2 collectors edition,
number 10692, i got it on the first day out

i still got the box, maybe someday it'll put my kids through college

Greedo · February 2003

Lol, yes. Most I ever spent on a game was for the Diablo 2 collector's edition.

Of course, I haven't touched the game since I beat it, so I can't say it was really worth the money.

Speed_2_Dave · February 2003

heh. HL Platinum edition, for 40 bucks. For 3 HL CD codes.. I'm sure I've spent more for a game, I just don't remember. Last I checked SNES games cost only ~40 bucks, and All of my games are shareware or Ueber-Oldware (so never over 30 bucks for a game, outside of HL)

Dubers · February 2003

I find it funny how you guys are all like "omg I like paid $60 for this game one time". I laugh because thats still only about £35! A £50 game would be about 75-80 dollars for you guys. Lol and you guys thought you had it bad.

manah · February 2003

£50 ... Streets of Rage 3.

The game was a complete dissapointment, not a patch on the mighty SoR2 (one of the finest 16bit games and the definitive scrolling beat 'em up).

And DY357LX, you got seriously ripped off mate, I got US Metroid Prime for £35 and if I didn't already have an NTSC Cube I could have got Freeloader for £17.

Sancho · February 2003

Heh, I was waiting for someone to do some kind of conversion. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'> Now that someone has...

Ramses are you nuts!? Holy crap thats a lot of money to spend on a game!

Cyborgguineapig · February 2003

I think it was $70 for Marathon 2 Durandal at one point in the past <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

I just redently found it for $9

DY357LX · February 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (manah @ Feb 11 2003, 11:57 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> And DY357LX, you got seriously ripped off mate, I got US Metroid Prime for £35 and if I didn't already have an NTSC Cube I could have got Freeloader for £17.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Yeah I know <img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'>
There's only one place by me that does import stuff, so he can
basically charge what he likes.
Where do you get yours?

Speed_2_Dave · February 2003

cgp-you sure you didn't buy all of them for that much? Sheesh. I got marathon 1-inf for less than 30 bucks (and abuse, and pitfalls, and one or two other games, too).

Whats The Most You've Ever Paid For A Game?

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