WongaWatch - The Grand Game Expenditure Thread 2017
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How much do you expect you'll spend on games & consoles in 2017?
£0 - £1 - Yar, yar and/or freeware for me yo.  0%  [ 0 ]
£1 - £50  5%  [ 1 ]
£50 - £100  5%  [ 1 ]
£100 - £200 (~£12.50/month)  35%  [ 6 ]
£200 - £300  11%  [ 2 ]
£300 - £400  11%  [ 2 ]
£400 - £600 (~£50/month)  5%  [ 1 ]
£600 - £800  0%  [ 0 ]
£800 - £1000  11%  [ 2 ]
£1000 - £1200 (~£100/month)  11%  [ 2 ]
£1200 - £1500  0%  [ 0 ]
£1500 - £2000  0%  [ 0 ]
£2000 - £mental  0%  [ 0 ]
Total votes : 17
<1.74> - Driver:Parallel Lines (Yes, it's an oldish game, but it runs on my laptop)
devilman wrote:
<1.74> - Driver:Parallel Lines (Yes, it's an oldish game, but it runs on my laptop)

Dump it
<3.99> Layers of Fear: Inheritance DLC
Bamba wrote:
<3.99> Layers of Fear: Inheritance DLC

That feels expensive for what you get. :(
Lonewolves wrote:
Bamba wrote:
<3.99> Layers of Fear: Inheritance DLC

That feels expensive for what you get. :(


Possibly, I've fancied replaying the game for a while now though so I just picked this up so there was some extra stuff to see.
A few PSN things from the sale today

<9.99> DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours
<6.19> LocoRoco™ Remastered
<8.39> The Sexy Brutale
Thanks again, Zaphod!

<9.99> DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours
So we're past the 6 month mark and the scores on the doors are

Code:
Bamba   1295.05
TheVision   1025.74
Doctor Glyndwr   754.78
zaphod79   504.07
Lonewolves   494.73
devilman   241.64
Hearthly   186.46
MrChris   81.50
JBR   60.40
Zardoz   24.99
Bobbyaro   24.99
KovacsC   20.99
Dr Zoidberg   10.00
MaliA   4.79
Quite a range there! 8)
<24.99> JAMMA pass-through adaptor (to give me six button with my Pandora's Box 3 instead of five)

Next on the list is an MVS->JAMMA adaptor if I can find one for a decent price that isn't already broken.
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Doctor Glyndwr 754.78

Stupid sexy PSVR.
I think I have more things to add to this but I haven't been keeping up with my spreadsheet recently. I'll see about updating it soon.
Lonewolves wrote:
Much better!

Lonewolves 494.73

Of which iRacing: 474.74
I look forward to next year holding zero hardware purchases and my 'score' plummeting back down to the bottom of the list.
New for 2018! Playstation 5 and wireless VR headset!
Mr Dave wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
Much better!

Lonewolves 494.73

Of which iRacing: 474.74

Probably :)
Grim... wrote:
New for 2018! Playstation 5 and wireless VR headset!


Wireless wouldn't be enough to make me upgrade and having bought a Pro that'll hopefully future proof me for a bit.
I'd be all over wireless, I think.

When you come to MeatUp I'd be interested to see what you think of non-Pro VR - I have no current urge to upgrade, but if there's a big jump I might be tempted.
Grim... wrote:
I'd be all over wireless, I think.


Conceptually, yeah; but the wire doesn't annoy me nearly enough to spend yet another few hundred quid after all the money I've spent this year already.

Grim... wrote:
When you come to MeatUp I'd be interested to see what you think of non-Pro VR - I have no current urge to upgrade, but if there's a big jump I might be tempted.


Well, technically I have had some experience of it as I spent a good few hours VRing on my OG PS4 before the upgrade. It's almost impossible to say for sure what the difference is unless you had the same game running side by side on the two different consoles. I've theorised that the Pro has possibly helped me with nausea stuff but I don't know for sure, it's also possible that I just developed my 'VR legs' after spending a decent amount of time with the tech in general.
<20>
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All that for £20? How?
DavPaz wrote:
All that for £20? How?


I was browsing Ebay this morning and it was just there. :) The seller messaged me after and seems genuine, so we'll see what state the games are actually in when they arrive.

Of course if they're in good nick, I might have to buy a PS4 next :D
Ticket to ride (android) <0.89>
Splendour (android) <0.89>
devilman wrote:
Of course if they're in good nick, I might have to buy a PS4 next :D


A lot of the others are 'cheap' but Horizon should have been at least £20 itself
Fingers crossed they actually turn up Devilman. I have to admit, it does sound too good to be true.
I've bought <127.54> worth of things including... Street Fighter 2 (Switch), Snake Pass (Switch), The Turning Test (Xbox One), Refunct (Xbox One), A load of games in the Xbox backwards compatible sale (Xbox 360) and probably many more.
devilman wrote:
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"I'm ever so sorry my PayPal account isn't working so I have to shut it down, I'm very sorry for any inconvenience and disappointed I may have caused."

Hmph. More like they've realised they've underpriced it. Same thing happened with some NES games earlier in the week. They just refunded the payment without explanation

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<7.95> I bought Project Cars a few weeks ago and have played it for about an hour. It's mega-pretty though. I'm just going to stop buying games I think, all I need is Hearthstone and fruit machine emulators.
devilman wrote:
devilman wrote:
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"I'm ever so sorry my PayPal account isn't working so I have to shut it down, I'm very sorry for any inconvenience and disappointed I may have caused."

Hmph. More like they've realised they've underpriced it. Same thing happened with some NES games earlier in the week. They just refunded the payment without explanation

<-20>

Complain to eBay, reckon .
Not really worth the hassle over £20. I'm going to put the money towards a Wii U I think instead. :)
devilman wrote:
Not really worth the hassle over £20. I'm going to put the money towards a Wii U I think instead. :)

It might be if they plan to re-list the items to get a higher price?
Tell him you'll post him a cheque :)

Or a ... money order? Or postal order? Can't remember what they were called. Can you still get those?
Mimi wrote:
Tell him you'll post him a cheque :)

Or a ... money order? Or postal order? Can't remember what they were called. Can you still get those?


I pretty much only buy things on Ebay through PayPal. That way, if they don't send the item, Ebay covers the cost and automatically refunds you.

You can still get postal orders - I had one of my website customers pay through one the other week. And I'm waiting for a cheque from another one. And a third sent me a banker's draft from Ireland. Retro payment methods for retro games. :)
Check this out, Retro Fans:

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Certainly looks nicer than my retro setup :D
<14.99> Nex Machina for PC because Neil bums it like he bums my mum.
<30> 15 months of PS+
<30> 15 months of PS+

(Thanks Doc)
With my gaming backlog cleared I reckon I'd easily get my money's worth from that between the free games and discount so I'm currently hoping someone from my team at work will buy it for me (in exchange for the cash obviously). I'm not buying an Amazon Prime membership just for this as it would negate the discount.

ETA: Success!
<30> 15 months of PS+
<30> 15months PS+ (thanks Doc)
<20> headset
<30> Resi 7 PS4
<396.48> psvr, camera, move, farpoint, vr worlds
ONE OF US
ONE OF US
ONE OF US
I have a big box under my desk.
<3.85> Battlefield 4
<20> Hori Fighting Stick (Xbox 360). No idea if that's a decent price, but I saw it in CEX's window and figured it'd be handy for Steam
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