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Posted December 08, 2023
I prefer to live in negation...
Posted December 08, 2023
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Sachys: Not gonna go through my purchase history to filter gifts and freebies and bundled games out of my total to come back with a number - even less so a total spend.
Of course, if like me you had entered what you paid into a spreadsheet every time you made a purchase or got a game from GOG, then you wouldn't need to do anything labor intensive to find out.

There can be many good reasons to keep records, beyond just showing off, including eventually deciding you've spent enough or maybe have been sensible enough, etc.

I certainly compare what I have spent on games versus other things. It is like monitoring yourself and maintaining control.
Post edited December 08, 2023 by Timboli
Posted December 08, 2023
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Timboli: spreadsheet
*huarfs at the thought
Posted December 08, 2023
Could do a query on the spreadsheed with my credit card history (which I keep in a spreadsheet :D), but I don't see much point in it.
Posted December 08, 2023
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UsernameTaken2: Going through all my receipts and adding it all up would take far too much effort, so here's a bit of JavaScript that will do it for you:
Thanks. For me it took more like a minute to run.

It said "15198.49" which I presume means I've used about 15200 euros on GOG.

That sounds plausible, I guess. And no I don't really feel bad about it, I've been here now 12 years and my electric car which I bought two years ago cost twice that. Or, last summer when we went to Thailand for four weeks, I think we spent something like 5000 euros on that one trip alone (we didn't spend time in expensive hotels or anything, quite a lot of that money went to flight tickets alone, for four persons).

Money is meant to be spent, I can't take my money to the grave with me when I die, but I can take my GOG games and my electric car there, and keep utilizing them in the afterlife if I get bored or something.
Post edited December 08, 2023 by timppu
Posted December 08, 2023
I've spent about 9720 € on GoG on about 1400 games and I don't really regret it. Although sometimes I spot games on my library that make me think "why did you buy THIS one?".
But yeah, gaming is a hobby and most hobbies cost money. And yet there's way more expensive hobbies than playing games.

I'm seeing myself more as collector than a gamer though. I spend money to support good work and ideas.
Posted December 08, 2023
Meh, this got me interested after all. My estimate was not all that bad, about 20% too low.

What's interesting that GOGs attempts to get newer games seem to pay off: During the last three years I spent more on GOG than in the almost 10 years before.

I had to add a few hundred bucks to the amount spent directly on GOG, since I also supported some games on kickstarter where I would get a GOG key for.
Post edited December 08, 2023 by neumi5694
Posted December 08, 2023
I don't want to think about it. :P
Posted December 09, 2023
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Post edited December 09, 2023 by natewrench
Posted December 09, 2023
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natewrench: sometimes i had to spend money on gog to keep my games alive otherwise if i dont spend money gog.com closes my account and i loose everything. plus if i dont keep gog profitable then cdpr shuts down gog
You don't have to do this, just archive the offline installers onto an eHDD manually or using gogrepo.
Posted December 09, 2023
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UsernameTaken2: Going through all my receipts and adding it all up would take far too much effort, so here's a bit of JavaScript that will do it for you
Very cool, thanks!
Posted December 09, 2023
I personally use this Tampermonkey script: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/14022-gog-orders-history-prices-summary

Important: You may need to remove the language code from the URL for the script to work, so from:
https://www.gog.com/en/account/settings/orders
To
https://www.gog.com/account/settings/orders

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UsernameTaken2: <...>
I'll keep your script as a backup, thanks.
Post edited December 09, 2023 by SargonAelther
Posted December 09, 2023
utter e-peen sausagefest. ironic too.
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