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 Post subject: $16,000.00 spent on virtual mmorpg game sword....o_O
PostPosted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 2:41 am 
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http://www.critiques4geeks.com/2011/12/ ... -of-wulin/


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Love the retarded looking face he's got...Its priceless...

Either:

1) Its false and was just a staged marketing ploy to increase the game's hype

2) Its real and was a marketing plan to increase the game's hype




If it is real then this guy's gaming addiction is over 9000!!!!!!...He wasn't the only one that bought items. Two other guys spent $1,600.00 and $2,500.00 respectively. The game haven't been released when they were doing this...By the way...How much do you think you have spent on mmorpgs to date....whether SRO or other...

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 Post subject: Re: $16,000.00 spent on virtual mmoprg game sword....o_O
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I've spent like 200 euro on wow. Sold accounts for 100 and 150 so it's okay.

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When you have a hobby and the money to finance it, I don't see a problem with this at all.

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When you have a lot of disposable income this kind of stuff happens. If you are single, no kids, and getting 100k+ a year yeah 16k isn't a enormous amount for something he is probably very passionate about.

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 Post subject: Re: $16,000.00 spent on virtual mmoprg game sword....o_O
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When you have a lot of disposable income this kind of stuff happens. If you are single, no kids, and getting 100k+ a year yeah 16k isn't a enormous amount for something he is probably very passionate about.


I wish I made 100k a year ;_;

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Even though 16k is quite the considerable amount of money, but for a hobby? People would go the extra mile for it. Just for an example you'll see a bunch of cars that are worked on as projects that end up costing far more than the amount just to get it done by a professional.

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 Post subject: Re: $16,000.00 spent on virtual mmorpg game sword....o_O
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Wow that game reminds me of Silkroad. Also looks 10x better.

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 Post subject: Re: $16,000.00 spent on virtual mmoprg game sword....o_O
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When you have a hobby and the money to finance it, I don't see a problem with this at all.


Same.

In all honesty I think I'm over 5000 euro total on sro (isro and all pservers combined)

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Old. Someone recently gave 12000€ for a echoing fury on D3 :)

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I instantly thought of the sword of 1000 truths. Best episode ever. If I made that much money per year with no life to speak of, I'd buy me the best account on runescape, and fuck shit up.

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Crowley wrote:
When you have a hobby and the money to finance it, I don't see a problem with this at all.


Same.

In all honesty I think I'm over 5000 euro total on sro (isro and all pservers combined)


0 euro total here, and, when I look at the game now, I'm glad I didn't spend any money on silk.

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I've only wasted 12,7 € on sro.

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> SouthPark WoW episode

I instantly thought of the sword of 1000 truths. Best episode ever. If I made that much money per year with no life to speak of, I'd buy me the best account on runescape, and fuck shit up.


But how do you kill that.....which has no life?

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 Post subject: Re: $16,000.00 spent on virtual mmorpg game sword....o_O
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I've spent over 1k in video games over the past 5 years, is not that big of a deal.

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 Post subject: Re: $16,000.00 spent on virtual mmorpg game sword....o_O
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Holy crap! I wonder if the guy will try to sell his... virtual sword eh?

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But he doesn't actually own the sword. The entire game is a property of the publisher, so yeah. They can choose to give everyone that sword for free later, then he's gonna be pissed and won't be able to get the money back.

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They can choose to give everyone that sword for free later, then he's gonna be pissed and won't be able to get the money back.
Oh that would suck so bad.. lulz

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Well I'm almost speechless...16Gs up front on a virtual item that you don't own.... And he did it when the game wasn't even released yet....I wonder if they would have given him his money back if the game failed to release....Probably not... Talk about disposable income....

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i have spent $0 on sro or any mmorpgs. mostly because i couldn't spend $ on it <.>
Would be funny as hell if the game sucked nuts..or sad.

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Bartic wrote:
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When you have a hobby and the money to finance it, I don't see a problem with this at all.


Same.

In all honesty I think I'm over 5000 euro total on sro (isro and all pservers combined)


0 euro total here, and, when I look at the game now, I'm glad I didn't spend any money on silk.


I can't say I'm glad I did, but when I did I enjoyed it so I see no harm.

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I think I've spent close to $2,000 on mmorpgs over a 7 year period. That's not too bad in my opinion. I did at least enjoy what I paid for at the time... But I don't think these online mmorpgs deserve a $2,000 up front payment for anything...and with the prospect of getting more as the game progresses...no fking way...

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But isn't Age of Wulin out yet? Wushu is, so i'd think Wulin is too.

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But isn't Age of Wulin out yet? Wushu is, so i'd think Wulin is too.


I believe the game is out now but it wasn't when this guy was throwing 16Gs on the table for the sword...

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Holy crap! I wonder if the guy will try to sell his... virtual sword eh?


I remember when I first started playing SRO and saw someone in game selling a SOSun lvl 42 bow for $50.00 and I laughed...I was thinking to myself what fool is going to give real money for some virtual item... Little did I know about the world of mmorpgs.... This guy is further proof that I still don't know crap...He amazed me...I see now people are willing to go an extra 100 miles to satisfy their hobby

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i have spent $0 on sro or any mmorpgs. mostly because i couldn't spend $ on it <.>
Would be funny as hell if the game sucked nuts..or sad.

Stay that way, my friend. Once you figure out a way, one cannot simply stop.
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Mirosuke wrote:
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i have spent $0 on sro or any mmorpgs. mostly because i couldn't spend $ on it <.>
Would be funny as hell if the game sucked nuts..or sad.

Stay that way, my friend. Once you figure out a way, one cannot simply stop.
~700$ SRO
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~120$ Elsword

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I've been cheap. The game that probably took the most of my money was either SRO something around $400 over the course of 3 years i think it was or Aion where it's something around $350+including original $50 box.

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It's probably a good thing I was so young when I started to play SRO. Who knows how much I would have spent.

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