Let’s see if figures match… what’s the biggest amount of money you’ve ever paid for a game? (Either by monthly subscription or lump sum or something).
Loading ...I know this isn’t exactly scientific thing, but pretty interesting anyway.
tonic: "well… applying the same logic, why would you consider X360 since it doesn’t play old XBOX games? and yeah, first model of PS3 had extra HW to..." 1 hour 48 minutes ago. 
Juuso: "Russell: it’s the amount of junk in me house I dislike… I don’t like the idea of owning seven thousand different consoles connected to a tv. :)" 6 hours 37 minutes ago. Juuso: "Jake: what about stealth/assassinations - are they interesting as in Thief (=cool) or interesting as in Assassins Creed I (=pretty okay)?" 6 hours 38 minutes ago. 
Jake Birkett: "Shame. The PS2 played PS1 games but they looked funny. Can anyone 100% confirm if the PS3 games are really region free? If so I might buy one in Canada..." 9 hours 46 minutes ago. Jake Birkett: "@Juuso: Yes, it’s very good. I’m impressed. It has great graphics and a great atmosphere of 15th Century Italy (I actually feel like..." 9 hours 49 minutes ago. 
GamingHorror: "Besides the already mentioned points, backwards compatibility seems not to be a big issue. It’s definetely not a system seller." 13 hours 36 minutes ago. 
Lumooja: "It’s production costs. The old PS3 had a chip which could run PS2 games, so it didn’t need to emulate them. It also had bigger harddrive, more USB..." 15 hours 27 minutes ago. 
mikeful: "Original model supported PS2 games. For some reason backwards compatibility was dropped from newer models. PS1 games are software emulated on all models...." 16 hours 22 minutes ago. 
Russell: "Actually, I believe that the first-generation PS3s did support PS2 games, but are only compatible with 92%-98% of them. You can check which models are..." 17 hours 49 minutes ago. 
June 26th, 2009 at 8:56 am
depending on the exchange rate ;-) but would be nice to have this in Euro’s as well.
It is interesting to see how people perceive prices of gaming, as i remember the cartridge times and the large boxes (Kings QuestV with 5 or 6 floppy disks for large sums!)
these days gaming is very affordable and a huge range - my kids have no idea what privilege they have :-)
June 26th, 2009 at 9:57 am
Just asking for the max might be misleading… for me, the average I paid for games is surely closer to 10€ than 20€, but I bought some expensive full versions right when they came out, well, very few only. Like Spore recently, or Thief II years ago.
June 26th, 2009 at 10:34 am
I am not sure prices are the same over here and in the US, for instance. But I voted considering prices over here.
June 26th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Over $2000. MMO, had a bunch of multi-accounts back before chinese farmers got into those
Was making my living playing it at the time. Still amazed 8 years later that there’s people who’d happily pay $30/hr to have you run through a quest with them
June 26th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
I bought Assassin’s Creed Collectors Edition. A game plus figurine and some extra dvd, all around $100. It might be even more than $100 cuz of the euros
June 26th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Let’s see… EverQuest ($50 I think) + something like six expansions at around $30 each ($180 total) + 5 years of playing at an average of $12 / month I think ( $720) = almost $1000.
And my wife played, too…..
June 26th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Sneaky. :)
July 7th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Most expensive game I ever bought was Time Crisis 2 for PS2 with a light gun, I think.