How much did you spend buying video games, playing MMOs, or maintaining gaming in your lifstyle?
how do you go about choosing which games to buy in cases you don't have much money? Did you ever reach a point where in your expenses were too high that you had too stop. If so how did it get that way?
My first experience came from playing MMOs. I spent 2 years and 6 months playing before I realized that I had been wasting money and time and a lot of other things. It cost me about P22,000(I'm from the Philippines btw so it's proly not a big amount but it is a big deal here). When you hit the ceiling(lvl cap) that's pretty much it and PvP/GvG/RvR/etc. just wasn't enough to convince me to stay. Maybe that's because I'm more of an explorer that an automated machine.
As for buying games, I bought only 12 games in my entire life(original ones that is). The recent one being Fallout 3. I think it cost me more than P20,000. I only started buying them back in 2004. Back when my PC was still crap I only played games that were already installed on the computer or I just borrowed them from my friends. But as the years went by I finally got Internet hooked up in my house and I realized that the people around me never left the late 90's. Starcraft is a good game but you can't really put with the same thing for 4-5 years. during the previous years, I bought 1-2 games a year which costs me around P2,000-P5,000. Now though I don't have money to travel anymore and also nobody sells legal copies where I live. Sad to say but my gaming days are coming to a close.
As an end result I don't receive any allowance and I have to walk from school most of the time. If it sucks being a gamer in Australia, In the Philippines being a gamer kills.
how do you go about choosing which games to buy in cases you don't have much money? Did you ever reach a point where in your expenses were too high that you had too stop. If so how did it get that way?
My first experience came from playing MMOs. I spent 2 years and 6 months playing before I realized that I had been wasting money and time and a lot of other things. It cost me about P22,000(I'm from the Philippines btw so it's proly not a big amount but it is a big deal here). When you hit the ceiling(lvl cap) that's pretty much it and PvP/GvG/RvR/etc. just wasn't enough to convince me to stay. Maybe that's because I'm more of an explorer that an automated machine.
As for buying games, I bought only 12 games in my entire life(original ones that is). The recent one being Fallout 3. I think it cost me more than P20,000. I only started buying them back in 2004. Back when my PC was still crap I only played games that were already installed on the computer or I just borrowed them from my friends. But as the years went by I finally got Internet hooked up in my house and I realized that the people around me never left the late 90's. Starcraft is a good game but you can't really put with the same thing for 4-5 years. during the previous years, I bought 1-2 games a year which costs me around P2,000-P5,000. Now though I don't have money to travel anymore and also nobody sells legal copies where I live. Sad to say but my gaming days are coming to a close.
As an end result I don't receive any allowance and I have to walk from school most of the time. If it sucks being a gamer in Australia, In the Philippines being a gamer kills.
