Have you spent a grand on World of Warcraft
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 - 1:25am
I was discussing with a friend and we realized that someone who's been playing WoW since the beginning 5 years ago has so far spent over a grand on the game: 900 in monthly fees, the rest to buy the game and expansions as they come out.
Shocking or are you ready for the next 5 years?
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I could have spent a lot more on a bunch of other games, but if you want a comparison, do a /played on your main. Last time I checked, I had over 120 days played on 1 singular toon.
For $1,000 (which is more than what I've spent since I got the game only about 3 months before TBC came out), I've gotten over 2,880 hours of play time...on just one toon. Add in alts, other leveling classes, other servers, probably adds up to double that, maybe slightly less.
Let's say 5,000 hours of play time. That's $0.20/hour of an expense. With just the main, it's $0.35/hour. A regular game with 80 - 100 hours of play time can cost $60 or more, or 2x to 3x as much per hour. Cable TV still costs more each month and per hour.
Considering I don't buy Cable, or really any other games, I'm saving atleast $20 a month, or atleast $1,000 over that same timeframe.
Woot! - And back to WoW...
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I have a mod for this that collects it across all your characters. It gives me some big numbers, although the /played time doesn't account for AFK and just hanging around chatting with the guild. Compared with buying other games monthly, I'd say I don't regret playing wow and I've gotten what I feel is value for money.
a thousand dollars for that much entertainment seems exceedingly low.
I wish my bar tab over the last 5 years was a thousand dollars...
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I figured for the 160 a year I paid , ended up saving me about 600 in bar tab per year, NYC sucks .
Thats not counting all the games i dident buy because of wow
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Doing some sums, I've spent £435.11 on 49 months worth of subs since starting. Using round figures of £30 for the base game and £20 each for each expansion gives £70 for the game, although I know they cost less, and I used a gift card to start me off. Thats £505.11 total. Knowing how many hours total I've got logged (a noteworthy fraction of my life since I started playing), it's very cheap if you look at the hourly cost.
One of the first revelations myself and a friend made about six months into the game was that we had gone from buying at least two new titles (console or PC) each month to just blowing the sub fee each month. I think we had both also bought about two or three titles between us in that same period.
I have my gripes with WoW, but the cost:entertainment ratio is nowhere near one of them.
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This sounds like an interesting and elicit payment model.
Blizzard - "How would you like to pay for your WoW account?
1) American Express
2) Visa
3) BJ"
Bloo Driver and Friend - "Dude, rents due..."
[quote=FSeven][quote=Chumpy_McChump]pPunc"tuat,,ion is: har'd!
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So am I after seeing how readily you throw convention and rules out the window you big hunk of rebellious man love, you. [/quote]
[quote=Paleocon]Reality has no marketing budget
Seriously true. About 15 bucks per month for 40-80 hours of gameplay per month when I'm active.
$1K and counting... Bring it on! Great value for the $ and almost all of it spent with friends.
On the 27th of Dec, myself and 5 guildies/friends got together at a local pub for a few hours the cost of that one night equated to the same cost as the next 5 months of the WoW sub.
thank god for LoTRO's Lifetime membership
I think only paid $199 and never again (for the sub anyway)
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Shoal07 wrote:
I only played WOW for about a year. My only regret is that for several months towards the end I would only log on for a couple hours here and there. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has kept a WOW account active for the occasional meet-up with friends.
Now, I have spent a bit of money on the MMOG market. Over the past 5 years I've also bought:
The Guild Wars Trilogy: got the first game free but spent about $120 on three expansions
Warhammer Online: Played 6 months $140 total
Age of Conan: Played 3 months $75 (got a good discount on box)
City of Heroes: Played 3 months $95 total
Champions Online: Played 1 month $65
Lord of the Rings: Free boxset at PAX, bought 3 month pass for $30
So, all told, I've spent $565 on MMOs in addition to the two expansions and subscription fees for WOW. Unfortunately, some of the above games were not that great a value. I never hit max level in Warhammer, and I played Champions for about 2 days in-game time. The only games I feel I played to death were WOW, LOTRO, and Guild Wars.
ChrisLTD wrote:
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/01/06/16-year-old-world-of-warcraft-youth-absconds-with-cougar/
16 year old ran away to be with the 40+ year old girlfriend he met on WoW. When you're talking about the potential for true cougar love, how can you afford NOT to spend a grand on World of Warcraft.
[quote=FSeven][quote=Chumpy_McChump]pPunc"tuat,,ion is: har'd!
.[/quote]
So am I after seeing how readily you throw convention and rules out the window you big hunk of rebellious man love, you. [/quote]
[quote=Paleocon]Reality has no marketing budget
Are we counting all the money I've paid that Chinese kid for mad lootz and power levelling?
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AC 1 year
SWG 4 years
Anarchy Online 3 months
Planetside 3 months
WoW 5 years
LotrO 3 months
Tabula Rasa 1 months
Age of Camelot 1 month
CoX 4 months
Pirates of the Burning Sea 4 months
Vanguard 5 months
Everquest 2 3 months
WAR 4 months
Guild Wars
AoC 4 months
Darkfall 6 months
All i can remember. At one point i had 6 subs going up at once.
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I am a Day 1 person. I agree with everyone else though, its worth it. I need to cancel my Subs to 2 other games I have not played in 3 months and keep paying. I have a problem with that. I wonder if I can do it at work...
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Gah, I don't even want to think of all the money I've spent on MMOs.
I've spent well over a grand on WoW between my account, my wife's account, several server transfers, several faction transfers, and the occasional name change. Oh, and my adora-cute Panda pet! And my BlizzCon streaming feed.
Oh Blizzard. I wish I could quit you.
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