I was reading a blog post today during my lunch break, over at LifeHacker called Top 10 Ways to Trick Yourself into Saving Money. The post had some clever ways of tricking yourself into saving money. As I was perusing the comments, this gem from “Brad” caught my eye:
Here’s one:
Play World of Warcraft.
I was going to the bar Tuesdays and Thursdays because they had $2 for any drink specials, I was dropping about $40 a week at the bar. Now I pay $15 a month and I don’t go out. Sure, I don’t have a social life but in return I now own a house, a car, two bikes and two level 70 characters…..and I’m a year out of college…..debt free.
Yeah, it sounds like a distorted way of saving money but really if you boil it down….all I’m doing is distracting myself from spending money, which can be applied to many other activities other than WoW.
Okay, so maybe none of you found the elementary humor in that comment, but I sure did!
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As funny as it sounds (and as much as various coworkers of mine will mock this argument), WoW is a cheap form of entertainment. The amount of money that leaves my pocket during a single night out greatly eclipses the monthly cost of WoW and a few sixers of Racer 5 throughout the week. The only downside to this can be female aggro if you are in a long term relationship, or a lack of any females if you are not in one.
/me alt tabs back to his warcraft
Yeah, this made me laugh. It is true that in it’s simplest form WoW is a cheap entertainment. If you play for more than a year the cost of originally purchasing the software is mere pennies monthly, and the $15.99 a month is less than seeing a first run movie weekly.
There are other costs to consider tho, for those “serious” players. Second accounts (doubling above costs) character transfers to find the right realm ($25 a pop). Purchase online gold (not sure the costs, just sayin). All that and it is STILL a fraction of what a good Friday out used to cost me!
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