This game saved me hundreds if not thousands of dollars over the years. $12 a month is an insanely cheap hobby. Even when you factor in the cost of infrequent expansions and some frivolous purchases in the store, time-per-dollar spent is extremely low.
Yeah I was going to say I remember the old TV spots and new segments where people talked about how kids were throwing away their parents money on world of Warcraft and I'm like how? Unless they were spying the same amount over and over again. But even then back when world of Warcraft was at it. Sort of cultural peak around wrath. There was nothing to buy in a store.
12 bucks even back then in 2007. Wasn't going to go very far
Subscriptions had a really bad image back then, it's something weird about the older generations where pretending you weren't a "full timer" was always important, even if it made no sense value wise. So it was totally fine to massively overspend on a random event somewhere as a "special occasion", but the moment you put your name down as a regular, you're some hardcore cult member radical that's beyond the pale. I could convince my parents to buy $100's worth of regular videogames for birthdays/holidays but subscribing even once in a videogame was seen as some disturbing adult den of evil.
Yeah I remember it was only for things like Warcraft or hell. I remember game flying, Netflix being considered bad even though you'd spend $5 to rent a movie at movie gallery or Blockbuster for a day when you could spend 12 bucks a month and keep movies as long as you wanted
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u/Spaceman-Spiff-23 Oct 31 '24
This game saved me hundreds if not thousands of dollars over the years. $12 a month is an insanely cheap hobby. Even when you factor in the cost of infrequent expansions and some frivolous purchases in the store, time-per-dollar spent is extremely low.