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well since i only really started playing around £90
also in tradition first!!!

First!
before i got hacked i solely played wow so no longer did i pay $60 for a game instead I just payed $15 a month which was way better because wow never gets old unlike other games where after you beat them you don't really go back and replay them

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Hmmm well... uhh i dont want to say how much WoW cost me. If you include all the other WoW junk i've bought like shirts than around... never mind its to much to say. But i has also save me tons of money i never really go out unless its with my girl friend or friends (and most of the time one of them pays) so i really have learned to uhhh cook lately in a sense because i never go out and in fact im pretty good at it! Its also saved me from buying alot of new 60 dollar games, and instead i tend to buy used ones saveing me about 10-20 bucks some times. I also save on GAS which as we all know was a good thing awhile back not to go out so often now however its not as bad. So i guess you can say from all the WoW junk i''ve bought and all the stuff i havent done because of it i think i rounds down to being about the same amount saved and paid.

why pay monthly if you buy game cards? then that way if you cant afford to pay for the game your done until you buy another game card

hmm... thats alot f money <.< would say around $500 too, but i dont know for sure :)

And as for you, it saved me alot too.. i was a huge gamer before WoW too, buying different games that i'd play for a month and then buy another one :)

Hey, I live in Canada, an hour outside Toronto is a town called Whitby. Your question actually catched my attention and i started to get thinking. It currently cost me $29.99(Canadian) for 2 months prescription at the local Walmart. However apparently Walmart runs out of these prescription boxes every time I need it, which sucks. This forces me to go to the local game store which happens to be "EB games" if your know it. It costs me $39.99(Canadian) for the same prescription. So i figure for a year prescription is costs me about $271.13 a year after taxes (which is 13% on ever item). Anyways now that i went on for like 15 minutes i hope this interests your somehow! Thanks for reading and have a nice time play WOW!

i like starbursts

May as well write up a comment during the server downtime...

Your blog actually does have me thinking about how WoW affects me in real life. Sometimes, I can easily spend 8 hours playing the game and nothing else. Something to be concerned about I guess, but it's not like I really have much in the way of a social life to begin with. >_>

As for the cost... give me a minute here... After adding up all the realm and account transfers, the Wrath xpac, and the monthly subscription: ~$565. (Thank goodness Oregon has no sales tax.)

Could that money have been put to better use? It's arguable, just like the posts above have pointed out.

I've only been playing for about 6 months, so it's cost me maybe $150- $175. And like other people say, I probably save money because I'm not going out as much to the movies or dinner or whatever. I also dropped my Nexflix down 2 lvls, and that pretty much covers the cost of WoW. So, I'm probably not spending much more in the long run anyway. And, I have family and RL friends that play too, so I am spending time with them, as well as the friends I've made ingame.

I thought everything costs $50 in Philadelphia...

"It is actually quite simple. If you are spending an hour or so a night in Azeroth, you can’t be doing other, more costly, things."

That's actually something I never considered! Wow, now I actually feel a lot better for shelling out for WoW 6 months at a time since it was released even though I have never been past level 58. :)

Being the cheapskate I am, I go for the cheapest payment plan with the 6 month subscription. Sure it's a big hit up front, but it's less per month and i don't have to worry about paying for 6 more months.

When I think about how much I actually save now that I have started playin close to 3-5 hrs a night, yea I am savin some serious $$$$. Figure rather than goin out to eat 5 days a week 3x a day, (@ $20/day), I now spend $400/mo on groceries, maybe hit the bar scene 1 night a month ($10-15) compared to every Fri/Sat (@ $40 a night) plus a movie @ $10 a pop. One week went from $200 to almost nothin. A month went from $800 to $400+WoW ($15/month), so over the course of a yr thats $4620 in savings, less the $30/yr avg for each X-Pac Collectors Edition.

Quick side note, those numbers plus the fact that I am no longer on the road DUI, make it very easy to explain the validity of playin WoW so much.

LOL I actually use all my iPhones features at least a few hours a day while I am at work. I check the interwebs, chat with friends and many other things to keep me occupied and not bored. Only 1 of my managers has had a problem with this so far lol.

However you do bring up a valid point. Playing WoW, I don't spend as much money on X360 or Wii games. I no longer go to movies because they are $12 a piece, and I try to not eat out that often because that seems to have gotten extra expensive lately as well. I've been playing WoW off and on since BC release so I'm sure I've saved a few bucks here and there :P

This brought up a great point. I started playing WoW about 4 months ago. Before I started playing I was spending at least $600 a week of food and other fun things. Now that I play WoW 3-4 hours a day, that $600 changed to $150 a week and that is mainly in food. And I agree with the whole thing with the IPhone. I mean all I have had with it is problems. And so Know I'm looking forward to the Zune Phone which I know will be better than the IPhone could ever think of being,

This is a story a occasionally share with others. We have a tight budget in our household. Married with two kids. I actually had to figure out a way to finance playing WoW. The only way I could make the budget work was to quit smoking and use the money from the cigarettes to may for WoW. Not only has WoW saved me money I am actually healthier for it.

Congrats Lendul!!!!

i started playing retail in late october and i bought wow battle chest for $20 and 2 2 month cards and lich king so 20+60+40=$120 so far.

You would think its expensive, but before I played wow i was spending 50-100 dollars on new video games a month. Now I pay 15 dollars for a monthy subsription. Plus 2 character transfers, and the expantion. I am still saving a ton of money compared to what I was spending on games before.

Gratz Lendul =]

Gratz Lendu!

This is such a great topic! A friend of mine just sold me a 1year insciption gift card he got, for 80 CAD$

HEHE so figures ill save a lot of money now :)

Enjoy the game and lets hope for the dual specc

$790 + two collectior's editions = oh man do I have an expensive hobby. My family has been playing since begining of 2007. Three accounts starting all at different times. This is an interesting way to look at your play time in WOW.

And good job Lendu!!

For those of you thinking about getting an iPhone DONT! I currently have a 32g iPod Touch that my brother got for my gradutation present. It has all the abilities and apps and what not as long as your in a wifi area. No monthly fees and it's more affordable. I use it everyday fo sho and I lovez it. Lendul ftw!