How Often do you buy games

I often wonder how Steam actually makes any profit - it must all be eaten up in bandwidth charges. Unless they have an unlimited deal with some 'kind' ISPs.
 
ic1male said:
I often wonder how Steam actually makes any profit - it must all be eaten up in bandwidth charges. Unless they have an unlimited deal with some 'kind' ISPs.
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you mean datacenter? :p

i recon they operate there own Datacenter's say 1000 Servers in a Datacenter £3 k each running all with 1GB links to Level 3. that probably cost £30k a month.

£300,000 - Servers One off
£30,000 - Connection - Every Month
£20,000 - Electric - Every Month
£10,000 - Staff - Month
£50,000 - Building costs & other Stuff


just a guess though
 
Buy games for PC, either when they're is a title that I want. Or whenever there is one on offer. Rarely buy any for the Wii.
 
I only buy 2-3 games a year. And that normally keeps me going for a year and so on....

Then obviosly you have your previous games that you can always fall back to, to have abit of fun.

:D
 
3-5 months mostly, although if i see something and i've got the money for it and i think it's worth it, i will usually buy it lol
 
Not that often, only when I'm bored really :o

Monthly if anything

Though I have played the ME2 demo for the pc, and despite having for 360 im considering buying it again
 
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Meh, 'game' is very arbitrary. If you bought 3-5 indie titles which can be just as entertaining you'd get the same price as a mainstream publisher focused on profit.

But anyway, when steam sales are on who knows, otherwise i don't buy many. There aren't many titles i'm willing to preorder and recently i'm getting put off that.
 
Whenever something comes along that's too awesome not to buy (Like GT5, F1 2010), I'll buy it. Otherwise probably once every 6 months :)

Prefer to re play old games which I know and love, like FF6 or just online multiplayer like CSS or BFBC2.
 
I try and stick to a policy of "one in, one out" - I finished Ratchet and Clank today, so felt justified in picking up a copy of Guitar Hero 5 :)

It averages out to a game and a bit a month for me - the exception being Steam deals, big releases coming in clumps and when I go back into WoW which effectively stops me playing other games :(
 
I only tend to buy games that I feel I'll enjoy. This month It's been StarCraft II, prior to that the last games I bought were in the Steam Christmas sales I think.

I don't buy a new game every X days to keep myself amused. I buy good games, if two come out close to each other, cool, if I have to wait a few months between, cool.
 
At least once a month, though sometimes as often as once a week. This is across all platforms. I do work in the industry though, so often I'll play stuff that I feel I should play for research/comparison.
 
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