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Is it expensive то play wow ?
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antbanks51
For me WoW is one of the best investments Ive ever made.
$15 a month times 12 months = $180 a year.
Before WoW
Get bored, go to the bar and drop roughly $50 on alcohol and food once a week (Sometimes more) = $200 a month = $2,400 a year.
I still get my going out on, but save a LOT more by playing WoW :)
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Liquoid
It's only expensive if you're unemployed.
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Sweetscot
It's only expensive if you're unemployed.
Not really. Plenty of people make $8-10/hour which after rent/mortgage, food, gas, and any other necessities doesn't leave much of anything depending on extenuating circumstances. Right now alot of people are "too poor for wow". I see alot of "well it's less than movies" or "it's less than eating out" and I always /facepalm a bit because there are many many many people who don't do those things, all of those things are minor luxuries the same as wow.
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Tropxe
As they said on
The Instance
, it's actually cheap when you consider what else you'd be doing. If I choose to stay in on every Friday and Saturday night throughout the month to play WoW, that costs me the £7 subscription fee. If I went out to pubs and clubs with my friends - as I will from time to time - that costs about £30-40 each day. That's £60-80 for a weekend, £240-320 a month. So we're comparing an average of £280 a month to about £7 a month.
That means, in any month where I just stay in and play WoW, I'm saving about £260. How on earth anyone can say that £1.75 a week for what's potentially 24/7 entertainment is beyond me. Even if you're unemployed, you get about £180 a month off the government (at least here in the UK). Hell, even a homeless person could afford the subscription by selling just one
Big Issue
a week.
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Tropxe
It's only expensive if you're unemployed.
Not really. Plenty of people make $8-10/hour which after rent/mortgage, food, gas, and any other necessities doesn't leave much of anything depending on extenuating circumstances. Right now alot of people are "too poor for wow". I see alot of "well it's less than movies" or "it's less than eating out" and I always /facepalm a bit because there are many many many people who don't do those things, all of those things are minor luxuries the same as wow.
You mean to tell me that every single week these poor, poor people end up with exactly zero money? Not even a little loose change - their income is amazingly
exactly
enough to buy the bare minimum food to survive and pay the bills and rent? Even if that was true - which it isn't - change the brand of chips you buy, get the store's own brand of Cola rather than Coca Cola - whatever. To save £1.75 a week, or the average in dollars, is incredibly easy. A single pint of beer costs twice that much, a bus ticket for a few miles costs about 3 times that much. It's nothing at all.
Going on your $8-10 an hour payment idea, that still means that it's about half an hour's work a week to afford to pay for WoW, or 6 minutes a day.
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Sweetscot
It's only expensive if you're unemployed.
Not really. Plenty of people make $8-10/hour which after rent/mortgage, food, gas, and any other necessities doesn't leave much of anything depending on extenuating circumstances. Right now alot of people are "too poor for wow". I see alot of "well it's less than movies" or "it's less than eating out" and I always /facepalm a bit because there are many many many people who don't do those things, all of those things are minor luxuries the same as wow.
You mean to tell me that every single week these poor, poor people end up with exactly zero money? Not even a little loose change - their income is amazingly
exactly
enough to buy the bare minimum food to survive and pay the bills and rent? Even if that was true - which it isn't - change the brand of chips you buy, get the store's own brand of Cola rather than Coca Cola - whatever. To save £1.75 a week, or the average in dollars, is incredibly easy. A single pint of beer costs twice that much, a bus ticket for a few miles costs about 3 times that much. It's nothing at all.
Going on your $8-10 an hour payment idea, that still means that it's about half an hour's work a week to afford to pay for WoW, or 6 minutes a day.
Considering I've been in that position allow me to flesh this out a bit more for you. You wind up with $0 every week yes, but it isn't exactly enough to buy everything so you just don't have everything. You don't drink pop, you don't eat chips, you eat beans, rice, pasta because those things are cheap and might MIGHT make it til your next paycheck, and if tey don't then you don't eat. You walk, you drink water, and the last think you're worried about is a video game...but you aren't unemployed. I was simply pointing out that there are plenty of working poor, and for them the idea of having a computer and playing a video game that you have to pay for every month sounds absurd. You might have an old console and a handful of games you play over and over, you might even have netflix that you access through the mail, but you wouldn't be paying for a monthly game sub.
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Koper
It very much depends.
In italy 12.99 euros per month is generally not much and affordable, but you can never say. For some people 12.99 can be a lot of money that should be spent on something much more important. But generally speaking I do not think in Italy WoW can be considered expensive.
Blizzard should probably adapt the fees to a country's economy, but I am far too ignorant to give any proper opinion on this.
woot another italian wowhead member! I'm italian too =)
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Croco
When I don't play WoW I...
Eat/Drink food and beverages. (up to 3-4 meals a day -.- )
Take a ride with the car. (usually around 10-30miles a day)
Watch TV/Rent a movie.
Go partying (huge cost here... 60-70€ each week...)
Eat painkillers cause of teh hangover.
When I do play wow I..
Eat/drink once a day (possibly twice)
Stay at my place.
Don't watch TV (most of the time)
Don't party
Don't need painkillers
Idk... 13€ a month doesn't seem that expensive anymore.. it gets me to around 30.8€ a week for entertainments. I find that very cost efficient =)
So when you don't play wow you eat healthy, go visit your relatives / friends, watch TV and movies with relatives / friends, go to parties which is ok and take painkillers cuz you dont know how not to get a hangover.
And this is just one of yous! You are all trying to hide behind that "cheap entertainment" thing... well how about conducting a healthy social life besides wow? Wouldn't then the cost be bigger?
At least admit that you are addicts and need your wow fix just like any other addict does and I'm ok. I have addictions. Or vices if you like. Everybody does. As I typed this I finished my smoke.
You know what? Playing wow would be a much cheaper addiction than smoking! Yeah that I can relate to. But playing wow is expensive if you plan to also have a life.
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billiegirl
I'm in Sydney Australia, I have two accounts as the kids have their own so its $30 a month but are paid in 6 month lot so it cheaper then $15 a month (like $12) and our dollar doing well at the moment so could be around $11.50 AUS (so two accounts $23 a month)
But Australia is EXPENSIVE we pay too much for our Internet service compare to other 1st world countries and its not even that good (I pay $50AUS a month for 100GB limit on ADSL+2 best I can get) - but I do get 50% of that back on the education tax refund ;)
On the news they did do a thing on cost of groceries compare to other counties buying the same thing and it was BS really what we pay here for food compare to other 1st world countries. I think in LA was $50 for their groceries and here was like $150 for the same items.
And I think Sydney is the top 5 most expensive cities to live in, and we very high tax country (we got taxes on taxes lol) cost of living is very high BUT in saying that people spend thing on crap lol (and still cry poor) Yet goverments does heaps of hand out (like education tax refund lol)
But other said it depends on the situation too, really in Australia Warcraft not expensive to play, but if you are not working probably would seem like a lot of money, but then people on the dole seem to buy their smokes, mobile phones and alcohol so warcraft would be ok I guess lol
Only issue I have is they dont discount on accounts you have, as I said I have two accounts but as kids get older and want their own (3 kids) could be up to 4 accounts (and computers lol) at $15 a month x 4 = $60 a month, they need to look at a discount system for X amount accounts per household or something.
But I wont be doing that until kids have part-time job and can pay for it themselves lol
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