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Was It Worth It?

Full price sounds expensive. Per hour of joy, it usually isn't. Settle the backlog debate with math.

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The honest entertainment benchmark

Cinema works out to roughly $5–$8 per hour of entertainment. Under $1/hour a game is elite value; under $3 it's beating almost everything else you could spend on. This is also the correct math for justifying a purchase to yourself.

The backlog corollary

A sale game you never launch costs infinity per hour. The cheapest game is the one you actually finish — run last month's impulse buys through this before the next sale.