WongaWatch - The Grand Game Expenditure Thread 2012

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13382

TheVision wrote:

Yeah. It's great!

To the consoleathon!

myp · **Posted:** Fri May 04, 2012 15:41

Super Stardust HD bundle - <£7.99>

Grim... · **Posted:** Sat May 05, 2012 14:50

Street Fighter X Tekken set me back <£19.99>.

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11843

<10.00> on GoW3 and Fable 3 turned up at last, but I think that is still included in the total.

myp · **Posted:** Sat May 05, 2012 21:20

I forgot to add the <£35> for a new PS3 PSU. Also <£5.49> for Silent Hill on PSN.

Oh and <£0.79> for Burn the Rope on WP7 and <£12.95> for Halo Anniversary on the 360.

Morte · **Posted:** Sun May 06, 2012 15:28

Having just played the Dirt Showdown demo it's become a confirmed purchase...finally someone has got round to remaking Demolition Derby and if it's even a third as good as the original I shall be well chuffed.

devilman · **Posted:** Sun May 06, 2012 15:46

<18.49> Your Shape - Fitness Evolved 2012. More feeble attempts to get fit.

myp · **Posted:** Sun May 06, 2012 16:24

Morte wrote:

Having just played the Dirt Showdown demo it's become a confirmed purchase...finally someone has got round to remaking Demolition Derby and if it's even a third as good as the original I shall be well chuffed.

I take it you've never played Flatout: Ultimate Carnage then.

Morte · **Posted:** Sun May 06, 2012 18:45

myp wrote:

Morte wrote:

Having just played the Dirt Showdown demo it's become a confirmed purchase...finally someone has got round to remaking Demolition Derby and if it's even a third as good as the original I shall be well chuffed.

I take it you've never played Flatout: Ultimate Carnage then.

I love a bit of Flatout (it's a shame more people don't play it online), this one seems to be (from the track on display) more or less a straight DD game though.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Sun May 06, 2012 21:57

Bought that Toy Bike Racer 2 thingy that Bobby mentioned. Like a kiddie Trials. 80 points, whatever that is.

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

<2.45> on the Android version of Zen Bound 2 and <3.14> on Special Enquiry Detail (yes, I know, but hidden object games are a secret vice of mine; especially on my phone).

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 8:09

Uncharted:@ Golden Abyss <35.00>
Journey<10.00>
Infamous 2 <12.00>

myp · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 8:31

SingStar (PS3) <£9.03>
Resistance: Fall of Man (PS3) <£4.41>

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Pandemic 2.5 for iOS <£0.69>

Curiosity · **Posted:** Sat May 12, 2012 12:25

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Pandemic 2.5 for iOS <£0.69>

Ditto.

The Poop Poop Parasite killed everyone. MUWAHAHAHAHAA!

(could do with being far more interactive; half the game is spent just staring at the screen).

myp · **Posted:** Sat May 12, 2012 12:42

You know just saying 'ditto' doesn't add it to your total, yes?

Curiosity · **Posted:** Sat May 12, 2012 14:15

myp wrote:

You know just saying 'ditto' doesn't add it to your total, yes?

Oh really? Wow! Thanks for letting me know!

myp · **Posted:** Sat May 12, 2012 14:18

Curiosity wrote:

myp wrote:

You know just saying 'ditto' doesn't add it to your total, yes?

Oh really? Wow! Thanks for letting me know!

No problem - just doing my job.

Grim... · **Posted:** Sat May 12, 2012 15:18

Knowing me, it's actually quite surprising that I bothered to strip the quotes out of the totals.

I probably knicked the code from the old Mafia Scum counter, though, so that makes sense.

So, er, yeah. Carry on.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Curiosity wrote:

The Poop Poop Parasite killed everyone. MUWAHAHAHAHAA!

Hah! Danielle's first virus was called "Poopy Mouth".

KovacsC · **Posted:** Mon May 14, 2012 13:16

Modern Warfare 3 <16.00>
Mass Effect 2 <£10.00>

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon May 14, 2012 15:49

Street Fighter X Tekken: <£19.95>

I ordered it on the forth, it took Zavvi until today to point out that I had typo'd my expiry date into the past on the card I used :roll:

TheVision · **Posted:** Mon May 14, 2012 15:51

Zavvi are rubbish like that.

I've got a few things to put in to my expenditure but I can't remember how much I've paid for things. I'll get on it later.

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

<0.81> on JAZZ: Trump's Journey a stylish little platformer on Android (also available on iOS). It's a decent game filled with nice ideas but, unfortunately, also some really shitty DRM that meant it kept kicking off processes in the background even when I hadn't played it all day. Not a problem in itself, but a deal-breaker when the spawned processes kept fucking crashing, throwing up errors and freezing my phone so it's been uninstalled.

Plus <1.99> on the jaw-droppingly gorgeous Wave Racer-alike Riptide GP, also for Android & iOS. I already had this from some long-since-finished Samsung store promotion, but the version I had only had tilt controls and it would never update for some reason. I'd play it half-heartedly now and again because it's so pretty but tilt controls can die in a fucking ditch so it never truly captured my interest. Somehow the other day I stumbled across the fact that the proper real current version on Google Play had long since had proper on screen steering controls added so I snapped it up and it makes a world of difference.

TheVision · **Posted:** Thu May 24, 2012 0:50

I've bought lots of things it seems, including some game points, Donkey Konga 1 and 2 and some bongos, Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, Fez, Trials Evolution, Suzuki allstar racing, Street Fighter X Tekken, Ridge Racer Unbounded, Rise of Nightmares and some other things that I can't quite remember...

If I put this here <91.76> then it'll bring my total in line with my spreadsheet.

myp · **Posted:** Thu May 24, 2012 6:46

<£22> on MS points, <£32> on Max Payne 3 and <£11> on Sonic & Sega Allstar Racing.

-edited-

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu May 24, 2012 7:23

No. I'm still not convinced that taking money off when you sell stuff makes sense - otherwise you might as well start putting your wages in.

That's not why it doesn't work, though.

myp · **Posted:** Thu May 24, 2012 7:55

It's purely game-related though and money I've made back. I assume people aren't counting store credit in this - it's much the same thing.

devilman · **Posted:** Thu May 24, 2012 8:19

<3.74> Assassin's Creed II - Deluxe Edition from Steam's little Ubisoft sale last week
<1> Chime
<1.96> Populous II

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

<1.96> Populous II
<1.96> Alpha Centauri
<1.96> Dungeon Keeper II

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

The Last Salmon Man wrote:

I assume people aren't counting store credit in this - it's much the same thing.

YMMV, but I don't track any sort of credit; I count it as cash when I list the purchase. So I bought Ico&SOTC for £22 with £10 credit, but I listed that as £22. I also don't track money spent on MS Points or iTunes vouchers; I convert the money at time of purchase and post that instead.

Speaking of which, about <£4.50> Iron Brigade.

myp · **Posted:** Thu May 24, 2012 8:48

Fair enough, I guess there are no rules so people are tracking it how they like. I will be mentally subtracting it at the end of the year though.

I suppose there's a few people on this forum who aren't tracking their expenditure at all.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

You can edit your post and remove the -£120 tag. Grim...'s counter is a live query.

myp · **Posted:** Thu May 24, 2012 8:50

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

You can edit your post and remove the -£120 tag. Grim...'s counter is a live query.

Yes, I suppose I can. He's already said it doesn't work though - as long as I haven't broken anything?

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

The Last Salmon Man wrote:

Yes, I suppose I can. He's already said it doesn't work though - as long as I haven't broken anything?

He just means minus signs don't work, is all. You can edit safely.

myp · **Posted:** Thu May 24, 2012 8:58

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

The Last Salmon Man wrote:

Yes, I suppose I can. He's already said it doesn't work though - as long as I haven't broken anything?

He just means minus signs don't work, is all. You can edit safely.

Oh, so it added on an extra £120? I did think the total was slightly high.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Thu May 24, 2012 9:00

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

<1.96> Populous II
<1.96> Alpha Centauri
<1.96> Dungeon Keeper II

Where did you get DK2 from, my disk is scratched!

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu May 24, 2012 9:01

The Last Salmon Man wrote:

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

The Last Salmon Man wrote:

Yes, I suppose I can. He's already said it doesn't work though - as long as I haven't broken anything?

He just means minus signs don't work, is all. You can edit safely.

Oh, so it added on an extra £120? I did think the total was slightly high.

You could also go back and remove £120 worth of debit from earlier posts.

myp · **Posted:** Thu May 24, 2012 9:04

I could, I suppose. I haven't even finished my firesale though (things are going on Amazon Marketplace like you wouldn't believe - I have to stick it on holiday mode every few days just to catch up with sending parcels out).

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

I guess it depends whether you're interested in measuring how much games stuff you buy, or how much of your money you spend on games stuff.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14489

KovacsC wrote:

Where did you get DK2 from, my disk is scratched!

It was part of the GoG sale last weekend as mentioned by PenguinJim in the bargains thread

viewtopic.php?p=666422#p666422

Its now back up to $5.99

http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/dungeon_keeper_2

myp · **Posted:** Thu May 24, 2012 9:29

Craster wrote:

I guess it depends whether you're interested in measuring how much games stuff you buy, or how much of your money you spend on games stuff.

I assumed the latter, seeing as the word 'expenditure' is in the thread title.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu May 24, 2012 9:30

Craster wrote:

I guess it depends whether you're interested in measuring how much games stuff you buy, or how much of your money you spend on games stuff.

But it's the same thing! Just because you got some money back when you sold a game doesn't mean it has to be spent on a game. If anything, you should deduct it from the expenditure in the year the game was bought, not sold.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Grim... wrote:

Craster wrote:

I guess it depends whether you're interested in measuring how much games stuff you buy, or how much of your money you spend on games stuff.

But it's the same thing! Just because you got some money back when you sold a game doesn't mean it has to be spent on a game. If anything, you should deduct it from the expenditure in the year the game was bought, not sold.

Depends - if you're only spending money because you got the trade-in credit, then it's valid for inclusion.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

KovacsC wrote:

Where did you get DK2 from, my disk is scratched!

http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/dungeon_keeper_2

Gone back up to $5.99 now though, the $2.99 I bought it for was a sale last weekend.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu May 24, 2012 10:32

Craster wrote:

Depends - if you're only spending money because you got the trade-in credit, then it's valid for inclusion.

But you could have taken the money, right?

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Right, but if you only buy a game for £40 because you know you can sell it two weeks later for £20, that's relevant.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu May 24, 2012 10:46

Craster wrote:

Right, but if you only buy a game for £40 because you know you can sell it two weeks later for £20, that's relevant.

Hmm, this is true.
Hmm.

myp · **Posted:** Thu May 24, 2012 10:48

Whereas I'd be buying what I am regardless of what I'm making selling stuff, so it probably shouldn't count.

Hmmm.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

<£1.49> on Swordigo for iOS. Supposed to be really good, haven't tried it yet.

Hey, Grim...: wouldn't it be great if the tracker could break our spending down by gaming platform...?

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