Gamer Whales

• ShadowFox31 wrote on 2012-11-08 04:14

  Quote from Kenny?;977334:

  Now that I think about it, I have not spent a single cent of my money on any game I've ever played.

  
  
  I used to be like that until I got a 40 hour job. I used to see it as, "I don't have a job so I'll just work on this game and make money through here! i'm saving money and not spending anything!" . Now, I don't really have any time to play games as much as I used to. To get anywhere from 1 ~ 3 hours a day is a good day. I have 5 classes from 7 or 8 AM to 1PM, then work from 2:30 to 9:30. I get home at 10, feed my cat and finish up homework, with about an hour of games before I crash on my bed.
  
  Honestly, I see nothing wrong with this. In the example, the first guy said this was actually a stress reliever for him. THAT'S A GOOD THING. To be able to go home at the end of the day and free yourself from the struggles of real life is actually pretty hard to do. Certainly, i'm not telling anyone on here to go blow 700 dollars on a game, because that's not what I'm trying to say. This guy HAS the money to spend. He makes so much, that having an extra 10 grand isn't that big of a worry to him.
  
  What I do worry about is the other person that was talked about in the article. Although he makes anywhere from 200k to 400k, He seemed worried or paranoid about his spending habits. I feel that these people need to look harder into themselves and see if games are really that great for them. I feel instead of games, they should get into something that's tangible, and has the same effects they are looking for. as stated in the article:
  "Vince was at one point in the top 100 leaderboard on Battle Pirates. For him, that justified the big cash outlays."
  This clearly shows he wants something to prove that he can do something well, and he's damn proud of it. I feel like he should do something that more people can approve of in society, rather than just himself.
• Lewd wrote on 2012-11-09 11:17
  This was a lot less than I originally wrote, but then I realized nobody wanted to read a wall of text.
  
  I think people like this are ruining the industry, just like all the dipshits who buy Call of Duty every year for 60 dollars. Its pushing developers to be lazier and lazier. Thanks to them, we will no longer get innovative games such as Mario 64, OOT, and Banjo Kazooie. Back then not everyone would buy a game because it had a lot of explosions or gore. Those devs had to make the games the best of the best, and I'm fairly sure its not just nostalgia goggles talking either. I started playing Conkers a few weeks back and I had more fun playing it than any game I've played this generation. It had the same magic I felt playing Nintendo games when I was a kid. I hope this video game fad dies out soon, its lasted long enough as it is.
• RebeccaBlack wrote on 2012-11-10 04:34
  Obviously nostalgia is inevitable, but there's a bit of truth to it. It's why indie games have been on the rise in recent years. Games started taking themselves too seriously, focusing so much on things that aren't terribly important. I'm not just talking about mainstream games that get regular shit talking done to them, but even the ones people adore, like Skyrim (well, we talked about this, but I'm putting it here for open discussion purposes <.<). While they're good games and ones I could play/enjoy, they've forgotten the primary point of a video game: fun. They've spent so much time and money on making an endless journey, a story, high quality voice actors, visuals and art, that it's almost like they've set out to make an interactive movie rather than a video game. People clearly love it, but I find it somehow lacking. It's still an experience, but it's not the one I signed up for. Instead of doing one thing really well, it does everything pretty decently in an effort to appeal to as many people as possible.
  
  To clarify, there are still wonderful games coming out to this day, but the market is oversaturated with a lot of mediocre ones that sell far better. This was not the case in the past. Now a lot of the good ones are made by nobodies because mostly everyone else went where the money is.
• Ninjam wrote on 2012-11-23 19:36
  Ive played mabi for 3 years and bought 25$ of nx a month while i was playing.
  
  Meaning, 25$ a month, for a few months, then not playing for 3 months much so nothing, and even while i was playing skipping a few months.
  
  There was one month i decided to put in 50$ of nx. In all, i would say i've payed equal to or less than the cost of a subscription for another game, but with the advantage of only paying at the times i want.