I'm honestly curious how much you paid for this game

[Kramer]

I only paid $15 (USD) for the game and I got some dlc on the side. I am seeing people talk about how they paid $40 for the base game.

[Ryika]

Why do you care about what others are paying?

[Kramer]

Originally posted by Ryika:

Why do you care about what others are paying?

Im just curious

[HappySack]

$10.99 (CAD) for the base game, tried it and liked it immediately.

Bought every DLC on sale piece by piece after, though I was lazy and didn't get higher discounts on ISTAD when I should have.

[steven1mac]

I preordered the game at the second highest tier, since I wanted the unique species. So 50 dollars not including the DLC. I make sure I put that species in every game I play to justify the money spent.

[Elitewrecker PT]

Why wouldn't people pay 40$ for the base game? If that's the base price then someone will pay that.

[Valravn]

Originally posted by Elitewrecker PT:

Why wouldn't people pay 40$ for the base game? If that's the base price then someone will pay that.

Paid pretty much the full amount since release for DLCs and base. 900+ hours I think it's money well spent. However if you're discovering Stellaris or really any Paradox game mid way through it's life cycle it's rough if you want the full experience.

[Elitewrecker PT]

If you're discovering it mid-way you can buy most stuff for 60-75% off.

[CaptainSpacetime]

what a strange question

[Dustreaper]

Full price for everything played since day 1

[ruiza97]

$9.99

[xycotta]

Originally posted by Dustreaper:

Full price for everything played since day 1

Ditto

[ScreamCon]

I've generally bought mine at 33% discount from full price.
I don't care enough to bother with the alternative websites.
The money does in fact help the developers, if you have a problem with that, then I ask, why do you pay taxes? To help your government get stronger? Its the same logic only towards a corporation.

[CrUsHeR]

Originally posted by Elitewrecker PT:

Why wouldn't people pay 40$ for the base game? If that's the base price then someone will pay that.

Well, psychologically, any kind of discount triggers the reward center in the brain. People will always buy on discount, even if the "discount" is exactly the same as the average market price. They feel good about it, clever like a troglodyte just having found an unusually juicy banana.

Quite a lot of people get addicted to discount shopping, like all the stuff getting hauled daily by Amazon trucks doesn't actually have a purpose other than triggering said reward center.

So there's a whole culture about people being cheapskates and penny pinchers and being proud of it. Every buck saved on consumer goods is a buck more to spend on vacation travels to speed up the climate change, right?



Seems weird for a video game where many people have clocked a couple thousand hours over the past 6+ years, as the actual money paid per hour of entertainment is near infinitely small.

I think i'm somewhere at 5-10 cent per hour of playtime? Example going for drinks and dancing in a night club would be around 100-200x more expensive.

[UK_John]

Bought it and every DLC on sale, so have the game and all the DLC minus 3 of them, paid about $120. After all, who needs micro-transactions when you can spend $300+ at retail on the game and all the DLC'sil!!! Micro-transactions would get boos and hisses and letters to the editor, but tons of DLC's? Not a whimper! I just bought an indie cRPG called Caves of Lore. Have 80 hours in it so far, and it cost less than $10! So you pays yer money, yer takes yer choice!

Paradox has always been "cleverer than the average bear"!

[Fibre🌹]

I paid full price for most of their DLCs, I'm not that money savvy. I've got a decent job in mining/offsite that after paying my bills/vehicle rego/groceries, I've got a large sum left and usually either save half and spend half of the remaining. So I buy most games full price without really caring, aslong as I have my savings, whatever I "waste" my other half on after each payday, I don't really care about price tag.