Comment Not just game purchases. (Score 1) 411
Maybe I'm particularly pathetic, but WoW hasn't only curtailed my game purchases, its curtailed my purchasing in general as well.
I used to be a steadfast console gamer, checking the review sites every week and eagerly heading to EB each Wednesday to check out the latest and greatest. I'd pick up between 3-5 games a month.
And then I found WoW. And as others have posted, I haven't felt any compelling need to buy anything else since then. It's not that I've made a conscious decision to save money, it's just that the desire to play anything else is gone. I'd much rather hop online and help one of my friends kill a few murlocs than play the latest and greatest single-person console game.
But wait, there's more! I used to participate in random consumerism just to cure my boredom. Have a rough week at work? Feeling restless? Nothin' a new iPod can't fix. Feeling a little blue? Why not forget about it for a while with some new clothes.
These days? When I've had a rough week, or I'm feeling restless or blue, I find that I can get the exact same satisfaction by heading to the WoW auction house and buying myself something useless and pretty as I can by buying something in RL. My virtual consumerism is every bit as fulfilling as my RL consumerism was. And it's a whole lot cheaper.
So thank you, Blizzard. You've probably saved me from thousands of dollars' worth of crap that'd just be sitting in a closet somewhere.
I used to be a steadfast console gamer, checking the review sites every week and eagerly heading to EB each Wednesday to check out the latest and greatest. I'd pick up between 3-5 games a month.
And then I found WoW. And as others have posted, I haven't felt any compelling need to buy anything else since then. It's not that I've made a conscious decision to save money, it's just that the desire to play anything else is gone. I'd much rather hop online and help one of my friends kill a few murlocs than play the latest and greatest single-person console game.
But wait, there's more! I used to participate in random consumerism just to cure my boredom. Have a rough week at work? Feeling restless? Nothin' a new iPod can't fix. Feeling a little blue? Why not forget about it for a while with some new clothes.
These days? When I've had a rough week, or I'm feeling restless or blue, I find that I can get the exact same satisfaction by heading to the WoW auction house and buying myself something useless and pretty as I can by buying something in RL. My virtual consumerism is every bit as fulfilling as my RL consumerism was. And it's a whole lot cheaper.
So thank you, Blizzard. You've probably saved me from thousands of dollars' worth of crap that'd just be sitting in a closet somewhere.
