How much money did you spend on The Sims 4?

"Zorga;c-17910119" wrote:
oh I enjoy stuff like this!
I'm Australian, so USD will be in brackets.

I have spent $864.52 ($666.33USD) on purchases both full price (mostly the EPs) and sale (mostly the SPs etc).

What interests me *more* is looking at things I purchase in a "Dollars per hours of entertainment" ($/HoE) ratio. When done this way, the Sims becomes insanely cheap! I don't even play Sims very frequently, I play other games and tend to play Sims for a month or so then not play it for a few months, so since release of the first EP I have played 1133 hours (per Origin).

Which means that, $/HoE I have spent 76c (.59cUSD) for each hour of gameplay.

Now, a movie ticket costs $23(~$18) where I live and runs for 1-2.5h, so being generous: that movie on the $/HoE ratio costs $9.20($7.09) -- Super expensive!

Edit: OH! I also spent a bit of money for two realllly good CC content makers on Patreon so its more like $900 but still!

I like the way you think! I have most of the expansion packs (only missing EL), most of the game packs (missing the star wars one and DHD), and I am missing maybe four or five stuff packs and all the kits. I bought most on sale or through bundles. I guess if we're all just looking at the cost of this game, it does seem like a lot once they're all added up. But considering this is spread out over several years, it isn't so bad compared to other forms of entertainment, as you've pointed out.
Just through the pandemic alone, we've had over a year of off-and-on lockdown in Canada, and still counting. Thanks to this, there's been no travel, no concerts or other events, no dining out, no movie theaters. It sucks, but not being able to go anywhere has helped me to save, I guess. This game has been a great source of distraction and entertainment this past year.