How Much I've Spent on NX

Well, my comment was coming from the fact that I lament over every penny spent on leisure items.

Same. I just put it all in perspective and started doing this: Mint.com

I set myself a $15/month budget for NX; that way, I know if I go over the amount I'd be spending on WoW or something. I made myself wait until the beginning of this month to hammer my overall... Dam 65%s burning a hole in my inventory.

But the only people that I see spending more than just subscription fees are multiboxers. (People who run multiple accounts, sometimes with one keyboard controlling multiple characters of the same class, such as 5 mages.)

My roommate multi-logs in FFXI and he spends more per month than I spend on MS. =) He's one of the most powerful people on his server, though, so thinking in MS terms, he'd probably be spending a lot more. But not necessarily... Some people could get to 200 and stuff by using the MTS only, but then, it's a lot more work.

Woah woah. Let's get back on topic guys.

...You give your buddies nx....

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Useless ass buddy list of mine....

Quoted for truth. But then, I feel like I'm stealing their money or something. My MS husband is almost twice my age (I'm 21), and he works for a living (actually, he plays at work a lot). He keeps wanting to gift me 2x cards. I say no because I like to use every bit of the 4-hour 2x cards during a planned grinding session, and I don't have time to do that often these days. Today, he says, "Even if you only use it a few hours, it lasts longer than a cup of coffee, and costs the same."

My retort was, "Yes, but I make my own coffee. F3"

It's true. I'm cheap and I know it. My mom instilled that virtue and vice in me. I felt so guilty about spending the 8.5k NX on my overall at first, but it's less than I would've spent on an impromptu lunch at Olive Garden or something...


Buying NX is like going out to eat. You could just make your own food (spend a bit each month and go without or MTS for the rest), but you spend extra money to satisfy your wants and needs faster, sometimes to be social with others.

I feel guilty for going out to eat sometimes, but only because I'm a poor college student. Same with NX. Expenditures I feel the most iffy about were probably in May of both years I've played. The first May, I splurged on using the MTS to equip my page because my ambitions were bigger than my mesos-pocketbook. The second May, I spent on 2x cards in a mad dash to get to 120. Neither one I really regret, since I'm still reaping the benefits today. I sort of regret buying 2x drop cards this summer, though, with the NX-meso ratio so high. Not doing any more of that.

According to Mint, I have spent $105 on Maplestory since December of last year, but I only spent $37 on Movies. Someone I know spends at least $100 a month on movies, both in the theaters and on DVD.

I've been playing since the fall of '06, though not seriously until early 2007... So, I think, maybe a year with no NX at all, $200-250 in total at the maximum? My bank doesn't let me see my transactions online unless I opt out of paper statements, and I'm too lazy to go get the paper statements for anything other than what my roommates owe me on utilities.