World of Wasting you time

I admit that I don't know anything about WOW, but someone stayed in their basement for a year playing a computer game and now wants over a half-million in cash for ther efforts?

Even if they meant $650 - $700, I am still amazed that they expect cash for this.

World Of Warcraft Account - $650700 (Pittsburgh Pennsylvania)

I have invested more than a year of my life of straight game play i do not expect to do it all for nothing.

Pretty common for a "geared toon". There's actually an entire black market for gold in that game too, entire shops of chinese kids farming gold on built toons and parceling it out to players who have more money than time. I see them all over CL all the time.

DISCLAIMER: I have never played this game, nor will I ever. I have friends that do though, and unfortunately, they tend to talk about it.

It happens, and is also stupidly against the rules. I wouldn't be surprised if the account is shut down before the cash trades hands.

WoW is a weird beast. For what he's got, he's asking to much. But he could still get an awful lot for it. I had a friend who would pump out characters to a reasonably high level, get them so good gear, and then sell them for $400 to people who didn't want to work to get to that level. Then again he also played somebody to play his character while he was in Iraq so he wouldn't be behind when he got back.

I'm reminded of the phrase "Get a life!"

Just think, this is someone's son and they let him do this. Probably a single mom and he lives in her basement or the equivalent thereof.

But I guess better this than ending up a serial killer.

To make it even more funny the 80's are worthless now that cataclysm is out. There are people in greens running around with better gear.

I don;t play but I hear all about this at work, like everyday from a few different people.

If it is $650 - $700 then that is a bargain.

LOL J/K

I'll be honest to admit most of the people that play are EXTREMELY strange and obsessed
but WoW really is an amazingly fun game
lol
My wife and I both play regularly. Yes I said WIFE. lol

People go to work to get money to pay others to relax for them. I am as confused as my Grandpa was the first time he saw our VCR.

I play online games and enjoy them, in moderation. The games can be entertaining, but I had most of my fun because I was gaming with friends and BSing over voice chat, Now that we're spread out all over the world, it is kind of like Skype with extras.

Most of my friends think I'm weird not for online gaming, but rather for all of the time I spend with cars.

"Full Epics With Epic Flying"

Uhhh. Okay.

fast_eddie_72 wrote: "Full Epics With Epic Flying" Uhhh. Okay.

Yeah I know I asked at work toady and got a ear full about "purple" imbalance. At least he is getting out and hopefully with some cash.

fast_eddie_72 wrote: "Full Epics With Epic Flying"

JG thoughts? Comments? I too have a handful of friends that spend too much time on Warcrack. The price is a bit too high, but he can probably find someone to pay it.

Hi, my name is Carlota, and I'm a WoW addict...

Folks who are well-heeled and don't want to sink a year sitting in a basement leveling up a bunch of toons will drop several hundred bucks on an account.

Since I am not well-heeled, I've simply played the game for six years. Granted, for the last four, I renew my account in November, play obsessively through the holidays, and cancel in January or February. Case in point: a bunch of friends pitched in and rented a fabulous estate in wine country for New Year's. Since the wireless in the massive house sucked, I spent half a day outside in the cabana in 40-degree weather getting my fix.

Fortunately, my friends were amused and happy to watch me play. I closed the computer when live people reached critical mass and got my socializing on.

While I've refused to pay $70-$130/mo for cable TV for the last fifteen years, WoW is a $15/mo subscription, and that $15 goes far. A lot of MMORPGs and other online games are moving to the free-to-play model; they're figuring out that people who are willing to pay $15/mo to play are even happier to play for free and spend $50-$100/mo purchasing virtual items. For some (note: not me), that $50/mo is still cheaper and more entertaining than cable TV or dining out, and it doesn't clutter the house with real garbage or add pounds to your midsection/thighs.

Online games are just a new kind of gambling/religion... you're going to put a lot more money in the basket than you'll ever get out, but they're really talented and making you feel damn good about it.

I don't feel bad about the time I spend playing video games; I'm a fairly productive person overall. This year, I started and completed a project car in six weeks flat, drove it to Florida (breaking down twice on the way), and ran it in the $2010 Challenge. :D I also hand-made all of the ornaments for my Christmas tree, designed & created almost two dozen pieces of jewelry (half were necklaces for a friends' wedding), made a coffee table, and held down a 40-60 hour a week job. I figure I'm on the other end of the spectrum from the guy who does nothing but play WoW in his parents' basement, but I imagine most players fall somewhere in the middle. :D

I have spent years on this forum. Maroon92 should be worth thousands by now. Top ten dork with Dorky flying...

There are way stupider ways to spend $15 a month. What I find interesting is the number of people who go out of their way to claim they don't play. It can't be just me, Carlotta and 12,999,998 Chinese dudes.

Funny story: Last year I was chatting with some folks in my guild about upcoming raid plans. I mentioned that the first weekend of December was bad for me because I'd be away for a a race. One of the other guys had his interest piqued. "Race? What sort of race? I'm actually going to be racing that weekend, too."

I told him it was a 25 Hour sports car race in Northern California (Thunderhill).

Turns out it was the same one he was going to be at. The guy I'd known online for nearly a year was a NASA American Iron racer from SoCal who read the mag and yet we had no idea about that facet of each others' lives.

But I'm guessing this guy in question is asking $650-700 and just left out a hyphen. And, yeah, that is a Terms of Service violation and very much the kind you will get busted for (I found out the hard way in my early days). There are MMOs, however, that have the provision for buying and selling characters. Everquest has "exchange" servers where all tradeable things in game are also open to the real world economy.

So, yeah, I have no qualms about dropping $15 a month for exceptionally high-quality entertainment. I mean, you'd drop $15 going to a movie, and that's purely passive entertainment. With this I take an active role in my entertainment, and use problem solving and teamwork skills that I wouldn't use in a passive environment.

Plus you get to kill orcs.

jg

Wrote a paper for a Econ. class about how gold (gil in this game) sellers had collapsed the economy of Final Fantasy 11 and caused HUGE inflation. Square Soft had to start building in "gil sinks" to reduce the amount of money in circulation. Basically anytime you paid a NPC the money vanished, also Square set up a "tax" on all transactions in certain areas . They also did a one time removal of 300 billion gil by banning around 700 accounts in one day. Most of these accounts were gold traders or farmers who traded the gold for real money. I also went into WOW some put it doesn't have near the problems that FF11 has. Made an A on that paper but the teacher warned me to never again write a paper where he had to research a MMORPG.

But as some have stated their is some serious money at stake in these games. Its amazing to me how one can create a currency out of nothing and back it with nothing and it still be worth something to someone.

Their is in fact one such digital currency that is traded on most currency exchanges, the Linden Dollar (L$), which is the currency of Second Life which had a GDP of $567 million US dollars last year.

I don't even own equipment powerful enough to play the game. I here the horror stories of addiction and have not one once of interest.

Edit: addition and addiction are one letter difference... what's one more?

JohnGalt wrote: But as some have stated their is some serious money at stake in these games. Its amazing to me how one can create a currency out of nothing and back it with nothing and it still be worth something to someone. Their is in fact one such digital currency that is traded on most currency exchanges, the Linden Dollar (L$), which is the currency of Second Life which had a GDP of $567 million US dollars last year.

If you think about it, any US currency that isn't coinage isn't backed by anything other than the idea of the USD, which is one of the reasons the value of the dollar is falling so much.

And, to someone else above, I owned up to playing as well
I have a 30ish hour a week job operating a forklift and go to school from 5am to 2pm every weekday. I basically play on the weekends and days where work is slow and I don't go in. The game isn't THAT addicting, we just came off of several months of not playing it at all and are only running one acovajajay between the wife and i now, just to save a little money (going to buy the challenge car first lol)
there are things more important than wow in my life but it is nice entertainment and a decently challenging, extremely open ended game. With really strange people who also play it. LOL

JG Pasterjak wrote: What I find interesting is the number of people who go out of their way to claim they don't play. It can't be just me, Carlotta and 12,999,998 Chinese dudes.

I'm not Chinese.

I played for a few years, took a few months off, then got back into it last year. My game time ran out five days after Cataclysm hit. I think I gained on level in those five days - I'm not hardcore enough.

For the Horde!

Maybe I'll get another game card in a few months, but I have a new hobby/interest: Taekwondo.

You people are crazy.

Get out in the damn garage where you belong!

Trans_Maro wrote: You people are crazy. Get out in the damn garage where you belong!

THIS!!! What in the name of all that's holy are you people talking about? This thread is making about as much sense as trying to read Russian...gil?

Trans_Maro wrote: You people are crazy. Get out in the damn garage where you belong!

Hey! I started and finished a whole car last year! Most guys on this forum who don't play Warcraft can't even say that! :P

And, JG, I knew there was some fishy about you. Slaughtering orcs...feh! I tried playing Alliance when I started the game, but I found Night Elves so annoying I kept trying to kill them. So I started playing a Night Elf, and she was the most suicidal NE Druid ever. I got her to level nine by getting her all the flight paths - even the ones in the level 50 (max at the time) areas. :D

And unless someone hears me in Vent... I'm a 300 lb mid-twenties guy playing in his mom's basement unless I want them to know otherwise. ;)

"But how could you turn your back on the World...

of Warcraft?!?"

dollraves wrote: Hey! I started and finished a whole car last year! Most guys on this forum who don't play Warcraft can't even say that! :P ***

Hey, leave my ADD out of this..

I'm busy making fun of others