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[Visualante2]

I have "made" money from selling Dota 2 items a few times over. I bought the compendium though.

 

[bede-x]

I've never spent anything even though I've tried quite a lot of free to play games. IMO the model typically affects the quality of the game and I doubt I'll ever support it. I try the game, establish that it's crap and move on.

 

[ephemeral garbage]

I spent maybe $500-$600 on TERA, not including the monthly sub that gives you perks, which I probably had running for about six months. I've spent maybe $80 total outside that. I don't play many F2P games.

 

[NickFire]

$30.00 total on Clash of Clans.

 

[GifGafIsTheBestGaf]

like 20$ on dota 2, will be +10$ next year's compendium

on phone, this has been the darkest hour in all my gaming years. made fun of people spending lots of money in this shitty phone games and ended up the same as them lol

the perpetrators were Ayakashi something? and Blood Brother, im clean now. /true story

edit: oh yeah, runescape back then when it was awesome (maybe 2 yrs worth of sub)

 

[damien1928]

played all F2P on ps4, spent 0.

 

[Jezan]

Approx $300.
Granado Espada, but only to get Rare Characters.

In game you can recruit various characters, you learn their backstories and help them come to a conclusion, but sometimes the company decides to release a younger/older/alternate version of those characters, sometimes with the same stats and skills but just different appearance and since I must have them all.... The worst part is that some characters have different costumes for the normal version and for the "premium" version, some costumes can only be bought with real money (or with excessive amounts of in-game currency) and since I must have them all.....

 

[AngryMoth]

Nothing and hope to keep it that way

 

[MrBali]

I paid 5$ on an iphone game but then immediately after I quit the game because it no longer felt fair. One of my worst purchases.

 

[Stevey]

The only F2P game I've played is Dota 2, and I've not spent anything on it.

 

[Wasp]

£0. In fact I don't think I've ever even played a F2P game.

 

[Damaniel]

Probably $400-$500 total over all the various free to play games I've played over the years. I have no problems paying for things in a game I enjoy. On the other hand, I don't play too many mobile games anymore - the need to spend money to progress outweighs any enjoyment I get out of the game. And if a F2P game has stamina bars of any kind? I won't play it at all, and they certainly won't get any of my money (Puzzle and Dragons excepted; though I gave that one up after a couple weeks of dealing with the stamina bar, and that game probably did more to make me loathe them than anything else.)

 

[Kiriku]

I've played a bunch of F2P on iOS, 0 spent.

 

[-Horizon-]

I technically used Amazon coins (when they were being given out) to buy DLC for some apps lol.

 

[MattPeters]

The only game ive put significant time into that is F2P is Path of Exile, and I spent $0.

 

[GodofWine]

Ive played a ton of War Thunder and Warframe since they came to PS4, and Ive spent nothing, and they are providing far more fun than the games Ive payed for (BF4 and KZ)

I may at some point feel guilty and throw a few bucks their way.

fake edit - blacklight retribution as well.

 

[Hubb]

Going off of memory, but I think I have spent $60 total across all the F2P games I've played.

Biggest offenders being:
League of Legends
Hearthstone
Warframe

For the amount of time I have gotten and am getting out of these games I don't feel bad at all. If I was giving up food to buy stuff in these games maybe I'd feel bad, but that isn't the case. Bottom line for me is, if I enjoy something I don't mind supporting it.

 

[Uchigatana]

One time, I was hooked to Rage of Immortals. I put $20 for wanting a legendary character. I realized that I'm getting really shitty characters on a high ranking unlockables, I deleted the game. It was really fun, but the game was revolved around IAP for me to enjoy. I felt guilty for giving GREE 20 bucks

At least games made by GLU had decent designs that doesn't gouge my money

 

[UnlovedJew]

Anyone who spends money on cosmetic stuff for a mediocre F2P game is crazy in my book.

NEVER.

 

[RealityPales]

I probably poured a good $250 into Warframe on PS4...

 

[Nyoro SF]

Tried to think hard, but I couldn't come up with any F2P games I've spent money on. Sorry, OP.

F2P stuff I've tried includes a few mobile games, but I didn't like them so I uninstalled them. Maybe F2P games are bad at hooking me in....

 

[morpix]

No F2P games were fun enough for me to spend money on... Although, Loadout came damn close.

 

[bobawesome]

Approximately $0. Back when I was really into Love Live, though...oh man...I'm glad I got out while I could. There's no telling what I would have eventually bought.

 

[z1ggy]

Only f2p i play is DOTA 2. From my wallet i spent zero. But i sold/sell items i got in game so i buy stuff with that money. If Steam sales are close, i save that money to buy games.

 

[Daft Bird]

About 10 dollars that I can remember and another 10 for those I can't remember.

 

[Here For The Free Feed]

$0

never quite gelled with mobile gaming, don't play EA games much, most of my gaming the last 18 months has been on wiiu so not even paying for online gaming

 

[Willy Wanka]

Only F2P game I've ever spent money on is Hearthstone. £34.99 for 40 packs of cards and £11.99 or something for the Naxxramas content. I've played the game for well over 100 hours (possibly double that) so I've gotten value out of it but I wouldn't ever buy any more card packs with real money.

 

[Slashlen]

Zero. I've only played a few F2P games though. Mostly Hearthstone, dabbled in a few others like Highgrounds(P2W garbage) and that D&D-like card game whose name escapes me.

 

[misses bull]

I spent 80 bucks on dota 2 items so far

 

[sheamus]

$100+ Dota 2
$250+ World of Tanks

 

[LostAnkh]

$20 on TF2, but no more after that.

I learned my lesson.

 

[bodyboarder]

$0.

 

[BHK3]

$0. Never will.

 

[Woorloog]

Zero, unless you count being a founder for Mechwarrior Online. Despite all my bitching about the game, i've gotten quite a lot of fun for the money so it hasn't been a complete waste... not paying one cent more though.

And i have tried quite a few of F2P games, though aside from MWO, none have managed to hold me really.

 

[Dog Problems]

Hundreds of dollars. I was really into Snoopy's Street Fair and Happy Street, both on iOS, and spent a lot of money in both of those games. I've spent money in various other games but smalls amount.

And I know it's not F2P, but the gold buying option in Guild Wars 2...

 

[shink]

Probably over $250 on TF2 (Crate gambling is bad) but playtime is at 2,500 hours so not too bad I guess.
DCUO expansion pack
Maybe under $100 on various mobile games

 

[Kilrathi]

40 usd for a expansion pack in eq2

 

[Wonko_C]

I actually feel like a freeloader/thief for playing Phantasy Star Online 2 and not spending a dime on it.

 

[LUFTRAUSER]

Probably over $350 on TF2. Maybe less. Once I unboxed that first unusual, I was addicted.

 

[Hackworth]

I got the Tribes Ascend starter pack and a few keys for TF2. I think that's it.

 

[ChoklitCow]

I think I spent around $30-40 in Planetside 2 for cool cosmetic items.

Otherwise I cannot think of anything, usually because with some grinding I can do the same for free.

 

[Shadybiz]

I spent I think $2.00 on a Viking hat in TF2. Worth every penny.

Other than that, $0. I've played a good amount of War Thunder, and some Warframe on PS4, and haven't spent anything on those.

 

[zeorhymer]

20 bucks I think in TF2. I bought some keys cause I had so many crates in my inventory.

 

[wsippel]

I play quite a few F2P game, and I've spent roughly €25 on Warframe. That's it. I would have spent money on other games, but the business models are usually shit and I don't feel like I'll get my money's worth. Tons of cheap things I don't want, and very few few very expensive things I do want.

In Vindictus for example, your basic underwear will stick out like a sore thumb soon enough, but I'm not willing to pay fifty bucks just to remove an annoyance. Which means Nexon won't see a single cent.

 

[Goldenroad]

Personally I've been able to resist the temptation of micro transactions in all games I've played except for one; Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer.

Mass Effect 3 isn't F2P, so I'm not even sure how it applies to this thread...and you're the OP. You can't complain about other people's responses in your thread when you didn't even answer your own question properly.

For me, the only F2P games I've ever really played are mobile, and I'd never spent a dime on any one of them.

 

[Mupod]

The people who spend thousands on these things baffle me, but I'm cool with tossing them a few bucks if I played a lot of the game.

MWO: $60 founder, first F2P game I ever spent money on. Played it a lot until I got sick of PGI's incompetence, to this day barely used anything I got from being a founder.
Marvel Heroes: $20 at release, $70 recently (but I put about 350 more hours into the game). Looking back I regretted the $20 I spent, but now I wish I'd got the big expensive founder pack. Really impressed with what they did with the game.
Planetside 2: About $80 or so? Most of that was from a triple station cash sale and maintaining a subscription for a few months. Played it a LOT, never tracked how many hours but at least 250.
Warframe: $5, got a $20 pack 75% off on a steam sale. Honestly, paying money doesn't get you much in that game. Was waiting on a sale to buy some more shit but it never happened and I stopped playing.
Hawken: $10. Didn't play it much but I liked the concept. The playerbase was apparently too dumb to make objective-based gamemodes playable which was funny at first and then got annoying.

I have a friend who's never spent a dollar on an F2P game, and they're pretty much all he plays. He always did just fine in planetside and marvel heroes. He plays a lot of hearthstone too.

 

[vagabondarts]

Zero. I grew up buying complete games so my mindset is never going to change.

The only F2P game I actually enjoyed was a dungeon and dragons neverwinter online game. There's so many choices for games now that I only played it for a few hours.

This is a conversation for a different thread but the game market is flooded with content.

 

[TomShoe]

League of Legends.

I've spent $10, and I've been playing about a year.

 

[spindoctor]

$130 on Dota 2.
$20 on Hearthstone.
$30-50 on Warframe.
$10-30 on Tribes Ascend.

Can't remember properly for the last two because there were several purchases spread out over time and various stores.

edit - I guess CSGO doesn't count because it's a paid game but it has F2P mechanics with operation passes and cosmetic skins. Although I'd have no idea how to keep track of it because most of the money is spent in the community market.

edit 2 - more I think about it, it's just impossible to keep track of this stuff properly if you're invested in Valve's economy. I play their games and get drops which I sell which mitigates the cost when I buy more stuff in their games or in the Steam store. It's just a blur.

 

[Forsaken82]

Played a bunch of them for varying amounts of time (some into the 100s of hours) and never spent a dime.

It isn't hard, you just have to not care about end game in most cases (when talking about MMOs) or in the cases of like Tribes: Ascend and Hearthstone, not suck with whats given to you