Man same. We must be living similar lives because I'm in the same boat. I work evening shifts full time and when I have time off, I'm just too tired to play or do anything.

My sis is a gamer so I gave her my PC and got myself the steam deck because I work out of state and I like the portability of the Steam Deck. It's light, well-shaped, and has the performance capabilities to run the games I tend to enjoy. I don't even play the games at 60 FPS. I don't need high-end graphics that show the detail of all 42 muscles of the human facial expression for me to enjoy the game.

So recently, I've been playing Elden Ring and Final Fantasy 15 since November, and both games were bought by my sis. I'm mostly trying to earn the value that she paid for the games (full price) to justify the purchases she made. And I do not intend to buy any new games until I get 100% achievements of the games I am playing.

So like you were saying in your posts, even if you play the game that you purchased at full price. Let's say you did beat the game. Another question is, how do you consider your game is truly "beaten" or completed? Is it just by completing the basic main story or do you have to complete all the side quests, gather all the items, see all the alternative endings, etc etc? For me, I'm a completionist so I aim for the achievements after I complete the game to a level where I feel like I have fully seen and experienced all the content the developer intended the gamer/audience to experience.

Even the completion of a videogame is left to one's opinion and how they determine the value of money spent on the experience of playing the game itself.

Sorry for such a long post and thanks for reading. Glad to see I'm not completely alone in this mode of thinking.

You're spot on. I try to tell this to my family when they drop $60 on a brand new game. They play it for 3 hours and then that's it. They don't touch it for awhile. They work full time and have 2 days off and have a backlog of games to play. To me, it's a waste unless you're playing the heck out of it.

The value of the game is relative to your own life style. If you are only willing to fully immerse yourself into a game for a couple hours a week... wait for the price to drop unless it is one of those titles you just can't wait to have (like for me it would be FF7 rebirth when it comes out).