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Is it expensive то play wow ?
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Post by
Siked
wow is $15 a month or $.50 a day
Post by
ChairmanKaga
I have some friends that balk at $15 a month for WoW, but think nothing about spending the same amount (or more) for one night at the movies or one casual dining meal. Plus you have to
drive
to those activities, and with gas prices right now....
Once you point those things out, the opinion changes a bit. WoW becomes a very cheap activity for us friends to do together.
Post by
Murrdurr
@Siked: Way to state the obvious....again.
Post by
Sweetscot
From the middle of the us in a fairly low wage/low cost of living area:
I don't think the $15/month bothers anyone I know of, even if money is tight if you're using it in place of other entertainment it's ok BUT the box fees are more of an issue.
I haven't been able to convince anyone I know to start wow because the startup cost is just too much, especially because most of those I know are couples like me and the hubs so $240ish to start (and yes I know they can buy 1 xpac at a time but they are all smart enough to add and see what it will cost to get to max level...) For young families that's just too much, you could buy fairly decent backyard pool for that money or put it back for things like when your car breaks down or the a/c breaks. I think even in parts of the us wow is too expensive to start up right now. If me and the hubby hadn't started when we did in BC we wouldn't be playing now. It felt very expensive to us then and we just needed battlechests (they were $40 at the time) but I really wanted to try it so hubs caved and bought it. Going to the store now and thinking of if I was a new player staring down battlechest, wrath, and cata...I'd be overwhelmed.
I would imagine there are plenty of places where WoW would be cost prohibitive, whether by box fee, sub fee, or both.
Post by
Sephrain
The way I see it, after the box fee, which is kind of lame, but not much worse than any console:
If I only play on weekends, and only 4 hours per day, which I often surpass unless I go out somewhere. (edit, Friday is the weekend to me)
3x4= 12 hours per week
x4 weeks
48 hours per month.
/15 dollars per month,
Breaks down to $3.2 per hour.
As opposed to a movie, 2 hours of entertainment, tops,
$12-15 for tickets, +5 if 3D.
Plus snax.
At least $10 per hour.
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Post by
WTBaggrodump
Well, it's not just $15 bucks a month you gotta worry about if you're going to be more serious about this game than other people. A good gaming mouse can run you around $50+ ~ 90 bucks (USD), and I'm not even counting the reliable internet or computer software/hardware... But yes, it's cheap, relatively speaking. What
is not
cheap is when someone repeatedly pays for race/faction/server changes/transfers. $25 bucks a pop... Ugh.
The downside I see to these is that we all become basement trolls for never venturing out into the light of day (you know who you are) and always spend time playing WoW because "it's cheaper than everything else." While that may be true in some cases, it's always good to change things up and go out to eat with friends/family/loved ones or seeing a movie or something.
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Post by
MrSCH
Patty, where you at that it takes 60? London?
Well in Sheffield there are always student-y things going on; BOGOF on cocktails, Jaegerbombs for 1.50 etc. And I always get a £7 bottle of Vodka from Tesco and some cheap lemonade for pre-drinking; a few drinking games and that gets you started!
Post by
Cambo
In NZ it's about $30 a month, and the subscription fee is well worth it.
$30 wouldn't get 2 tickets to the movies here.
Post by
Lombax
Here in Bulgaria I have many friends that can't afford to play in Blizz servers and this forces them to play on a free servers. I even thin that most of the people playing wow in Bulgaria , play on free servers :(((
Private servers, not free servers. And this post might get removed with the mention of private servers.(##RESPBREAK##)12##DELIM##Gnub##DELIM##No reason to force it down that route. The discussion - as you can see - doesn't even touch on the subject. Let's keep it that way.
Post by
Gnub
3x4= 12 hours per week
x4 weeks
48 hours per month.
/15 dollars per month,
Breaks down to $3.2 per hour.
Just have to correct you here: "dollar per hour" means "dollar/hour" - what you did was "hour/dollar". If that was the case, it would be more expensive, the more time you spend on it... which is hardly the case. ;)
In reality, it's actually
$0.3125 per hour
. The difference is quite significant :P
Post by
Lombax
Sorry Gnub, just needed to correct that.
Post by
bwirum
At least once a month I don't go out because I could be doing other things, WoW included and I don't need to drink every damn night. Though it's nice.
Average night out? £30.
WoW? £9 or so.
Yeh, it's worth it for me.
Eh... average night out with the guys - €150, cheapish restaurant, hit the bars. Average night out with the wife - €200-300, nice restaurant, wine and dine, movie first or a couple of bars after... Seriously, €12-15 for WoW? Hilarious.
Then again, this is Norway. It's bloody expensive here.
Post by
eXceSSum
Average night out with the wife -
€200-300
, nice restaurant, wine and dine, movie first or a couple of bars after..
o.O Wowza
OT: Although I'm currently unsubbed that isn't an economic decision. I would quite happily pay the month's fee even if I was only planning on playing the game for a week or so. UK here and I wouldn't say it's considered expensive because as it's already been discussed, a night out here far exceeds that and come the morning, you usually can't remember what you spent the money on anyway. ;)
Post by
atomicwolf22
I not up to current money conversions but want is the exchange from some of the other countries to US?
I know that at some times to exchange is sometimes 3x the US Dollar. (Not taking into account want cost of living is)
To me I would much rather play wow then go to the movies. Ave. cost is around 15$ for a Single ticket or 30$ after you get a snack and a drink. (When I can wait 4 monthes and buy the movie for 15$)
Post by
thedot
It adds up.
Post by
Nipah
I have two perspectives on this:
Employed: While I am currently employed (hooray!) and making $24/hr, paying for WoW is trivial.
Unemployed: While I was unemploy- I MEAN "freelance" and simply hoping the clients didn't try to pull a fast one on me, paying for WoW wasn't as trivial.
So yeah... I think it greatly depends on a person's income whether or not WoW is expensive.
Overall though, I think it is more than worth it in terms of per dollar paid.
Post by
dumac
Expensive is a relative term here. Depends on a few factors:
Your economy
Your country economy
The fee in your monetary system
Example if for an American the wow fee cost around 0.1 to 0.2 percent of that they earn in a month, or the cost of two apples. While in your country it cost 5 percent of your earning, or a restaurant visit.
Then it is more expensive in your country.
You also gotta calculate the sorrounding cost to get a more accurate example on how much it cost in the end(Internet, computer and Expansion packs etc...)
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