This is the cost to play Skyrim, assuming 300 hrs of gameplay. I've already completed 30 in my first week and i think my person is only to level 23 now.
This game is crazy detailed. I am so upset I never stumbled upon the Elder Scrolls series sooner. (actually i was planning on getting Mass Effect 3 but when I heard it'll only be through Origin-which sux, I tried Skyrim on a recommendation)

I read a lot of whiny posts about bored playing or out of content. Jeez; you paid $60 for a game that will go for over 300 hours of experience. Not much in life gives you such a good return. So sit back, enjoy, realize the amazing amount of work that went into a game of this grandeur, and honestly shut up. Cheers!

I agree 100% So many people are like "I got bored after 100 hours and I want my money back!" It's like, really? Most $60 games that are singleplayer only nowadays have maybe 15-20 hour stories, that have little to no replayability. If you get 100 out of Skyrim you're going fantastic...

Welcome to the forums,

you're certainly not the first to use your first post to complain about complaining.

at 106 hours it has became repetive for me. Various game play mechanics and choices overall feel incomplete, lacking, limiting, or just plain missing.

When the CK comes out the one and only reason I bought the game to begin with I will start to play.

Also I haven't played the game UN modded once because the moment I got it I used the custom ini file settings to add various things that should have been in the PC version to begin with.

@Alex

MW2 MP lasted the same length and I played that for the progression alone to say I completed it. I have gotten more out of Daggerfall then I have out of Skyrim and I got Daggerfall just a few years after Oblivion released

Yeah considering I played COD for all of 6 hours before finishing the single player. I think I will stick with Skyrim

I don't think you can accurately assign monetary values to a game's length. Not everyone is going to play the game for the exact same amount of time.

Doesn't compare to WarHawK in that case, but it is a multiplayer game. 4 cents per hour.

Previous TES games kept me playing them way longer than Skyrim will for me. But hey, your a new commer to TES games so naturally your happy, but as for players who has seen and expirienced alot of good things in previous TES games and now the latest TES game is less of a game when compeared to previous titles...how can one not complain ?

That I say that it's worth the full price, but I can name multiple games that has less replay value but I still would preffer them over Skyrim.

Complaining about complaining is just as lame.

Anyway, as every other TES game, the game world will offer near infinite game-hours thanks to mods which will add to the 100+ hours that Beth already made possible.

I'm enjoying every second of it, but that doesn't mean Skyrim is perfect. Many complaints you see on these boards and many other boards are quite valid. Skyrim could have been much much better, even though it is overall already an excellent game.

I played this game for 300+ hours now, and I think it's worth those 60 bucks, there's not many games out there that can do that.
there can be a broken quest over 500 quests? LOL, who cares?

I only managed to get about 150 hours before it became so boring that I wanted to stab myself. Compaired to the 250+ hours I played FF XII, a game that even has supposedly no replayability due to it's linearity, Skyrim pales.

And if I compaire it to all the recent MMOs I have played: It costs exactly 60$ more than all of them together, and gave me about 10 times less playtime. Plus it's 10 times worse as an RPG than the average MMORPG out there...

it's a SINGLE PLAYER game...just saying...
but if you are bored just move on to another game

I saw this post title and so was thinking of something else for 50 cents an hour. Yes, yes, my head is in the gutter and it will never leave.

i played skyrim 150 hours so far and yes, there are many repetitive things which are quite boring and after so many hours of playtime you might come to the conclusion that skyrim has a lack of depth in some way. nevertheless you had 150 hours fun with this game and i foresee there will be more when the construstion kit arrives. Besides multiplayer games that is a great relation between costs and benefits.

I did, playing NWN2 atm... I just like the forums here Plus, I'm waiting for any good mods that may come to rectify the mess that Beth created...

I've already got in over 300 hours and haven't finished a single questline yet.

...Holy Hell! LOL! What have you been doing?

I have no idea what you ppl do, my biggest savefile is 51 hours and I my Katjiit is almost at the soft cap, has completed the Main Quest, the Civil War, DB, Thieves Guild and half the Companions, along with getting some of the Daedric Artifacts...

Oblivion cost me about 1²/₃ pence an hour. Second best bargain I ever had ,ever for hours of entertainment vs. money, that wasn't a musical instrument. Best bargain? Well, Daggerfall was free.
As for Skyrim, 250 hours in, still to start DB, companions, Thieves', civil war, still got half the MQ and Mages' to do, still finding new places, still haven't picked a pocket, bashed with a shield, or used a claymore. Could it have been a better game ? Yes, so could absolutely anything. Value for money? God, yes.

For me it's probably the best value game I've ever played, I'm at about 250 hours and will probably clock up a 1000. I didn't pay sixty bucks for it neither (I wouldn't pay that for any game), cost me ￡20 here in England which is just over $30.

Enjoying it so much I thought about getting Oblivion (which I had a copy of at one point and never played) but looking at videos online I couldn't put up with the abysmal animations of the characters.

Well for a start I have 3 characters going
1 with about 200 hours, 1 with 100 or so, and a 3rd with very few
But thats good for me. I've kept them all and keep flitting between them which is better than my usual chronic restartitis

I rarely fast travel, often get diverted by something interesting like an old ruin or fort, and have the attention span of a butterfly

Well, it certainly isn't fast travelling.

Well, if I want to get a quest done then I want to get that quest done, and I will fast travel. If I don't wanna get any particular quest done, I will just pick a random direction and raid anything I find along the way. I do the latter fairly often. Still, I've never had a save file exceed that 50-hour mark...

There's people crazy enough to test how much money you can make by chopping wood the whole day.. so..

You must be rushing the missions like mad dude, or do you do literally nothing in between missions just bang mission then straight into another mission, I always travel home to sell me loot, check if there's any better stuff for sale, see what potions the alchemist has now etc.

Heck I would say I've spent 51 hours just exploring all the dialogue options of npc to see what new missions and info they have for me, there's no way you've talked to people or read any books if you've done all that in 51 hours. How do you play missions?, when I'm exploring a cave and I see two ways to go I explore both I don't just explore the route that leads to the objective.

I fast travel everywhere and at 250 hours, if I explored everywhere instead of fast travelling it would be twice that figure. I've not finished any of those quest lines, I'm fascinated by the lore and I enjoy learning about the world I'm paying from its inhabitants, I guess your only interested in the action if your only doing missions.