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Originally Posted by The Wolf
Even if that's all they are, given the huge number of hours of fascinated entertainment I get from each version of FM (or each version of OOTP, for that matter), each year's upgrades are well worth it to me. I think of them like an annual subscription fee: I pay an annual fee, and the design team updates the game for me, fixes some bugs, and adds some new features, and then throws in a new roster set. Seems quite fair to me. What's my entertainment cost over a year here? Ten cents an hour?
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Ugh, I always thought this. Especially after playing FM for literally THOUSANDS of hours. But these days I'm not so sure. The "improvements" seem to add up to less more and more, the games we are buying at full price are being made available to others at vastly reduced cost far sooner than ever before, and small devs are producing good games at very low costs far more often than they used to. The market has changed. Is it worth me buying the next version of FM solely based on the hours I would spend playing it? Yes. Could I have saved my money and played the previous version for just as long? Yes. Could I have bought 3 GREAT (and original) indie games instead? Yes.