I just realized that I have only used this one account for Maplestory, but I have played several Nexon games over the years, with several different accounts (some were hacked, banned for billing, other stupid things).
I didn't expect that much. at all. Only 100 over 4 years :D so $25 a year isn't too bad.
And I apparently have money to spend in Dec-Feb o_O That's where i spend all my money lol
Still looking to spend my 8k maple points somewhere on a decent sale that will net me some cubes or something >.O Don't feel like investing more money yet even though I have to job to pay for it.
MapleStory-Miracle Cube | 960 | 2226 | 2,670,960 2226 single cubes. that's how expensive Maple is(was) to get most stuff to 15% before second pendants and shoulders and rings and all that jazz
MapleStory-Miracle Cube & Potential Packages | 36,000 | 1 | 36,000
MapleStory-Miracle Cube (1) | 1,200 | 22 | 25,440
MapleStory-Miracle Cube (11) | 12,000 | 42 | 475,200
MapleStory-Miracle Cube(3) | 2,200 | 10 | 22,000
My first purchase was conveniently within this week, in 2010.
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1,257,505
Wow.. That's a lot more than I expected.. And I expected a lot. .-. Now I feel bad.
921,000 out of pocket, 921 bucks, ages 12-17.
Given that I've made back a fair amount of that, dang.. This is an eye-opener. I want to say this is another good reason to quit, but sadly I can't convince myself.
I knew I was addicted, but this makes me feel all sad inside. I'm a nasty person.
Just try it out for the heck of it. I was a bit nervous as well on how much I spent. It's way higher than I thought it would be, but I understand what's spent is spent.
Well, I did just for your sake. It came out to approx. $520 and change, with the first purchase dating back to 2006 and most of my out of pocket stuff coming from 2010 and onward. Assuming that about $450 of that was out of pocket since October 2010, I've spent almost exactly $15 a month on Maplestory. Time to not buy anything again for several years so I don't have to rationalize to myself that I could have afforded to pay a monthly fee on a traditional MMO this entire time.
Too much over the past 3 years. Shows how f'ucking aweful the return from cubing is. I don't really feel bad because it was spare cash at the time (from working) and I had some fun.
You have a problem with spending extra money you have on a game you enjoy and have fun with?
Honestly I don't know about him at all but I do have a problem with my spending and I completely relate to his sentiments. I don't really have fun on this game anymore. At the very least not in the same way that I used to. Every time I get back into playing I end up getting addicted again. I really hate myself for it. I'm really disgusted. Even in the past 5 days alone I spent over $150 on a character I just made and probably won't continue to play. I'm unemployed and out of school in therapy for other things. I guess I'm being way too candid right now and I don't know if I'm the only one like this or not. I guess one part of my bipolar disordered behavior includes impulsive over spending. I really want to quit but I don't know how to quit for good. I keep relying on Maple for the escape from reality it used to provide for me.
OT: 7,570,690 in purchases on 5 accounts from April 2007 to present. This doesn't include NX I've bought for friends and exes or NX I've traded for equips. One of the biggest reasons why I'm so disappointed is because I know my mom struggled and worked really hard to get to where she is now. Both she and my step-dad make over 100k each per year but they grew up in the Caribbean pretty poor. They put themselves through school on their own and had to sacrifice a lot to do so. I can't justify my spending knowing that my own mother was working 2 jobs and putting herself through pharmacy school all while having to share a one bedroom apartment with 4 other family members when she was my age. Three of them shared a mattress. I feel like such a spoiled peach and wasting so much money on this game is embarrassing to me.
Fuuu-, I just did this and now I really regret it.
I'm not going into values, but it's more than Bryan's total; I guess it's more of a reality check for me honestly. However, most of the purchases I don't really regret; it's just a rather large chunk of it was purely wasted. >_>
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