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We are forgetting one important aspect of playing WoW; the money saved on alcohol! For example, let’s say you go out with your friend every Friday and Saturday night and drink 6 beers each night paying an average of $3 per beer for a weekend alcohol cost (WAC) of $36. An 18-pack of domestic beer on average cost $12.99. This makes the unit cost per beer $0.72. By staying home and playing WoW on Friday and Saturday nights, drinking the same amount of beer, your WAC is only $8.64, a weekend savings of $27.36 and a total savings yearly savings of $1,422.72.

By taking this extra $1,422.72 and investing it in a traditional IRA that conservatively yields 8% per year, you can see below the return on the investment. Who says it doesn’t pay to play WoW?

Yearly Interest Balance at
Age Contribution Rate age 65
21 1,422.72 8% 549,000.00
25 1,422.72 8% 398,000.00
30 1,422.72 8% 265,000.00
35 1,422.72 8% 174,000.00
40 1,422.72 8% 112,000.00
45 1,422.72 8% 70,329.00
50 1,422.72 8% 41,728.00

Ok i have to add that as much as you might save on entertainment costs.. if you take it too far.. you might pay in other ways.

For instance if you play 8 hours a day.. thats 8 hours you are sitting on your fat ass .. and not exercising. So if you get out of shape.. now you have increased healthcare costs. And being out of shape might cost you that next job or GF/BF too.

It might also mean its time you could be working.. or making real friends and good connections that you will need in life elsewhere. i dont know about you but after nearly 3 years in the game I have made very few REAL friends that i would talk to even when we both arent playing anymore. In fact I only have 1 right now.

Not to mention it means time lost with your friends/family that you can never get back. Being disconnected from the world.. also makes you a square. No one in the real world could give a flying s*** if you can clear naxx with only 15 people and that you have all epics.

And how many of you maxed your internet connection so you could play better? How about the equipment we buy for the game? How many of us wanted a new computer just because of wow? How about all the electricity we use to keep it all running?

So ok go back to going t the bar 2 or 3 days a week and spending nearly $80 on drinks. Here in Arizona if you even rinse with mouthwash you are counted as a DUI so the costs there are a possible jail time, legal fees and whatever. (Arizona sucks by the way, and maybe thats why there are so many wow players here).

Either way I guess "cost" is a matter of which point of view you take.

Oh, Wow has cost a lot for us. Besides all the fees involved - buying the games, upgrading the computers, buying a new laptop just so we could play. It has also cost us my husbands job which he resigned 8 months ago and has been unable to find another job so far (if he even really wants to) It has cost us our marriage and we are still separated 7 months on. It has cost my husband the chance to watch his daughter grow up, learn to walk, learn to do all sorts of things.

Yes, we used to watch movies once a week together - great that is cheaper, but in the end we barely knew each other - I know more about my husbands online characters than I do about him and perhaps he knows more about his characters than he does about himself. The cost is exhorbatant. Our house is rented out now and we are living with family (but not together) We have been told to sell the house as we cannot afford it.

Thousands of gold pieces, but our own finances are in a mess - why because we could not pull ourselves away from a game. I quit it 7 months ago and since then I have paid off my credit card bill and saved a lot of money.

Well, wow is expensive! *sign* hahaha good thing I never pay not even a cents on wow. I only try the trial 5 times. So that =50 days of free wow. But the bad part is that you have to restart after 10 days. But at least you can talk to you friends in these 50 days...

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yo whats up

I payed about 2709dollars on wow

I would like to know how many of you single guys out there are so addicted that you have no social life with the opposite sex females?

I have been dating a guy that I belive is addicted to gaming. I can't figure out what he does with his time everyday after work. He never goes out..straight home from work. Making plans with me is pressure to him! But he says we are exclusive! Yeah, because I go out and I'm social so its a way for him to keep me from meeting other guys while he sits home and dates his computer! He is okay seeing me once or twice a week. I told him I needed more time from him if we are exclusive otherwise I dont want to be exclusive and then be sitting on my ass everynight. He doesn't get it! So, we are now taking a "break" as he would put it! Yeah, a break so he can play his games in peace and not have me nag about making plans. It's really sad! I'm so sad because I have strong feelings for him and I know he does for me but dating me is too much pressure with his games. I tried to talk to him about it and he gets offended and says I'm critizing him. He is 33 and I'm 32....He is going to end up single forever! When I met him I wondered what was wrong with him because he was so goodlooking and a good man and single...Now I know. He cares more about his computer than the girl he dates! Wake up!

HELP ME! I DON'T WANT TO LOSE HIM! BUT HE DOESN'T GET IT!

I dont understand why people like you go onto the internet to do this sort of thing. If you are great with numbers than you should be at a job somewhere making money, not wasting space on the internet, and space in my mind. Dont get me wrong, im not trying to tell you that what you do is wrong, but do you rly think that people beniffited from your post? Or you? Not to mention the time it took you to type it. Your good with numbers right? So stop useing your skills on posts about how much money World At War can save you and put them to good use. And to whomever put the long comment about his life doing nothing but play wow, i implore you to take a good look at yourself in the mirror, think for 2 secs, call up you so called girlfriend, and maybe just maybe get ur normal life back on track... or i guess you could just kill some elfs or orcs? cus that that sounds like way more fun than fucking a girl... LMAO

To Christina, even if he feels critized you need to let him know that what he is doing is immature. First off let him know that he dosnt have to stop playing, you just want to spend more time with him... if he tries to argue dont get upset, simply explain that wanting more time is not a painful burden and should be wanted by him if he truly cares about you. I dont know how ur sex life is, but i mean honestly... thats always one way to get a guys attention :P after this show him that going out or even just being with you can be as much, or more fun than any game. If he still dosnt get it you need to explain that he is 33 and should be thinking about a new stage in his life not a new stage in a video game... he may take this the wrong way but he should eventually relize it, the only problem is that it might be to late : / just keep reinforcing what you believe and if he cares he will change... videogames are very addicting, trust me; but u can break the indiction by introducing him to another... (not like crack lol) call him up and ask him to go rock climbing? something spontaneous and exciting!!!! i hope this helped. wow now im ranting online :P lmao

P.S. i dont know what your believes on Bud(weed) are but i have found that it truly makes me less irritable and 100% MORE SOCIAL!!! and it sounds like thats what he needs....