I don't think this article will tell anyone here anything new, but I thought it was interesting to learn a bit about the mindset of someone who spends thirteen and a half thousand fucking dollars on P2W garbage over six years. Notably, he was a high school student and got a second job just to finance his addiction to virtual currency and microtransactions.
The only reason he quit one particularly bad game was because it was sold to a Chinese company who changed it so much that even the whales left, which meant his friends left, which meant he had no reason to play. Imagine spending $4,000 on a game and then leaving because the only reason you played it in the first place was because all your friends were playing it.
This might be the crowning jewel, though:
Charles Nelson
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Angel King
gr8 thred OP
Ethan Hill
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Owen Sanders
It's an archive link, you fucking autist.
Nolan Watson
You don't feel morbidly curious about what goes on in a whale's mind? I saw the story through Gamedindustry.biz, but the original posts were Kotaku and reddit, so that's what I archived.
Ryan Smith
Good for the economy, goyim. (^: I bought CS:GO for 7 dollars, found crates worth 40 twice, Spent 300 dollars in TF2, have items worth 700 he should've spend it on booze or refugees instead.
Daniel King
Please leave this site and then the land of the living.
Kayden Collins
On the one hand, holy fuck what a giant fag. On the other hand this is exactly the sort of over-emotional bullshit that makess lefties get their panties in a bunch. Hopefully we'll see them attack lootboxes soon, although it probably won't happen. No one gave a fuck about a pregnant woman getting sniper rifle aborted in DMC DmC because reason. I think the same will happen with this
Cooper Evans
this board is dead
Jack Collins
What if someone spent $10,000 on weird stuff?
Henry Hughes
And yet it's still better than any of the alternatives.
Aaron Thomas
Didn't some faggot waste 7 times more on Scam Citizen?
Nicholas Morales
The people delusional enough to do that were, to my knowledge, grown men. I think it's different when someone too young to drive is so deeply invested in microtransaction-riddled iPhone games.
Hunter Campbell
Yeah, some dude bought virtual ships for a game that hasnt even come out and probably wont in YEARS. What a fucking sucker.
Zachary Rodriguez
How about you save it, you dumbass.
Bentley Smith
IIRC that guy "invested" the college funds of his kids into star ships for the game; being dumb enough to believe that it would blow up more than EVE did.
Josiah Price
You know they are goons and not newfags right
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Nolan Walker
You're letting reddit have much more control over you than they deserve.
Juan Perez
This is you.
Oliver Sullivan
You dumbasses are going to sit here and pretend he didn't find that page while casually browsing reddit, aren't you
Jack Miller
I'm not a perfect man, user, but even I have standards.
Grayson Long
At any rate, what are the chances that the CEOs of EA et. al. actually read this shit and promptly decide to increase microshit up to eleven because they now have evidence that Moby Dick exists?
Carson Ward
Not really, if you read the article that he archived you would realize that he probably just wanted to verify if the reddit comment had veracity just like he implied on his post. The only thing you could call out OP is for browsing Kotaku.
Hunter Long
get
Caleb Taylor
So it's shitty parents, who didn't teach their child how to behave, or monitor his their credit card activity at fault and not really microtransactions.
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David Clark
Modern teens are complete fucking morons, news at 11.
Joseph Miller
Here's an absolutely crazy thought - what about spending that money on, say, a deposit for an apartment or a car instead of leeching off of family?
Aaron Morgan
Do the average normalfags parents have enough self-control,self-awareness and foresight to even teach their childrens in the current year 2 some of these basic concepts, He is 19, practically an adult and is dramatically claiming to have a gambling addiction because he keep buying microstransactions, Also you have to keep in mind that there is stupid amount of adults with childrens that actually play mobile games and spend a substantial amount on microtransactions.
Carter Bennett
That's what you get with a government mandated public education system.
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Liam Cooper
But this isn't Renamon cheese grater porn. It literally is video games. Were you dropped on your head as a baby, and now you can only argue in strawmen?
Grayson Sullivan
Any company who does microtransactions already knows that the whales exist because they're bleeding them dry.
Luke Green
What do people here think about whales in games that are not pay2win? We all talk about whales in p2w moneypit games but what about whales in Path of Exile, CS:GO, LoL, Dota 2, SMITE, Overwatch, TF2 that only sells skins and other cosmetics for real money and dont sell power items. Those games also have whales.
Samuel Moore
← Underrated post.
John Garcia
This might be the most depressingly pathetic thing I've read all week.
Gabriel Allen
that's one high resolution wojack you got there
Liam Rogers
I find it ironic anons who are making fun of safe space are calling out people who are going to other websites I had fun rubbing it in the battlefront subreddit to all the enablers who bought that piece of shit
Andrew Davis
I blame the parents. He's still living with them, yet they didn't do shit to stop this. If he's spending 90% of his paycheck on microtransactions, stop feeding him and/or kick him out. Either he gets better, or he starves or freezes to death, which means there's one less degenerate either way. The bigger problem lies in getting game companies to stop doing this shit since there's apparently retards around willing to spend a car's worth of money to embiggen their e-peen. Makes you wonder if those penis enlargement ads of old actually had a point…
Oy vey, dis is anuddah shoah
Juan Gutierrez
fuck off
Asher Nguyen
no thats what you get when parents want to do so little with their own children they try to offload all responsibility to the schools who in turn don't have money to piss away on lawsuits from angry parents so you get retarded zero tolerance policies to also remove themselves from the responsibility of raising parents children for them. congratulations you're part of the problem blaming education for shit parents
Gabriel Torres
retard
Grayson Hill
If games today have free maps, it's because of microtransactions. I want them to stay. Let the impressionable idiots pay for the new content.
Sebastian Cooper
But at least I would'nt be stupid enough to spend it on games.
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Noah Russell
Nobody fucking cares that he spent 10,000 over the course of like six years on microtransactions spread over several games. That works out to be something like just about what you'd spend buying a new game every two weeks for a six year period. That he spent that much on only a handful of games is just retarded, but not exhorberant compared to the regular costs of the hobby (even if you're buying less games but also having to buy hardware, online fees, and other shit normalfags buy).
The real disgusting thing about the story, and the point that nobody is focusing on, is that he paid 10,000 for NOTHING. He received no goods or services in exchange for his cash. Both the content he was gambling for, and the mechanisms by which which the content was selected and delivered, was all already baked into the software he had downloaded. The service specifically rendered, was only a payment withdraw from his account. All the "game" did, was check to see if the payment had been made before continuing.
He got scammed, and addicted to scam, and nobody cares about that. They just focus on the amount of money he spent, which in relation to what a lot of people already pay for their gaming habits - isn't extraordinary.
It's a piss poor standing for an argument against microtransactions that is easily defeated - especially if argued in front of a judge, or anybody who doesn't really give much of a shit about videogames.
Levi Campbell
What if the lootboxes are like Overwatch where the only thing you can earn is stuff that have zero effecgt on the gameplay. This is not about OW as a game but i dont mind the payment model OW have where you get all future content for free expect for skins that you have to grind for. It is better than map packs and season passes IMO
David Reyes
I'm sure there are people out there who have spent $10,000 on Dragon Dildos over the course of six years, and nobody but Holla Forums and /cuteboys/ cares.
Landon Thomas
So microtransactions would be fine if you had a 1MB download after each one to get the textures and shit?
Those are more or less irrelevant except that publishers will never be able to leave well enough alone.
Chase Edwards
Games like Battlerite, PUBG are also using cosmetic only lootboxes that dont affect gameplay.
Jonathan Hall
Theoretically speaking lootboxes and cash boosters can be used to allow for free content updates to the game (like in OW or GTA5), but the problem is that basically every publisher out there will smell the money and find a way to get more money than what they're already getting out of it
It's no secret there's a reason why the content updates in GTA5 went from 'new gamemodes, outfits and guns' to everything new added to the game costing millions upon millions while the ways to get money become fewer and less rewarding
Dominic Wright
If the content was specifically created after the completion and launch of the game, isn't included in a mandatory update (making it a discrete product and not just part of the game's routine maintenance that was agreed to be delivered upon and as part of the point of sale/download), then yes - you are paying for a good/service. Then it becomes a matter of the content being provided being hyperjew overpriced - and that is a separate issue.
Lootboxes are never ok, as their only reason for existing is to get you to pay money for something you want, without the company being under any obligation to actually give you what you're paying for.
Lincoln Bell
One question to that. What if you are sure to get something from each loot box that allows you to buy what you want (magic dust in Hearthstone, coins in OW and most online CCGs have something like magic dust as well) Is it gambling if you are sure after some packs that you can get everything? I would say no myself.
Elijah Ramirez
I'd have to look into it more closely, since I haven't come across any systems like that. They wouldn't be obfuscating the means of transaction under layers of abstraction if they weren't pulling some kind of fuckery though.
Asher Morris
No difference. Same cancer, same addiction mechanics.
Chase Cox
Also: Paypigs and gamblers are addicted to wasting money, not to anything they get in return.
Dylan Diaz
Whales are normalfags, or failed normalfags. Everything normals do is attention-whoring. They do things because everyone else is doing it and they want to be part of the herd. They have no individual mind except a base instinct saying "follow everyone else." The people making the actual decisions about what's popular are either corporate tastemakers or the rare actual individual leading the pack in their group of friends.
Christian Wilson
Weird because some of the big names in loot boxes do that. Hearthstone and 99% of all online CCGs after HS, Battlerite and OW are some of the games that do that. You have 100% chance to get everything. The bullshit ones where it is pure gambling like ultimate team and such is however gambling imo. But where is the line drawn?
Jaxson Carter
Anyway, it isn't going to cease until maximum bullying occurs. Shame the shameless.
Every last one of you cocksucking faggots shitting up every goddamn thread on any and every board because of what you assume to be an offense. Learn who to bully, you fuckoff retard. Who even brought you here?
Ian James
I wanna shove OP into an oven!
Caleb Bell
Wow, check it out. Another forsaken skinwalker. This whole thread must violate the talmud or something. Keep going.
Blake Thomas
Hi, my name is user and I am a micro transaddict. I spent almost $200 on Fate:GO. Money that could have been spent on alcohol. I recognize I have a problem and that is why I now play Granblue.
Benjamin Sanchez
I bully retards. Reddit is shit and you are shit. This has never changed and never will. Suck my cock, dude?
Thomas Cooper
You're rubbish and new. Get some fucking focus you queeroff.
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Parker Lopez
AGAIN Wouldn't be having this discussion if you weren't green. How many times must it be gone over that this is not your home and not where you will ever reside naturally. I'm real hot tired of seeing you exact faggots around, just dumb enough to do something, not sharp enough to focus. You're like a dog barking at a passing delivery van.
Dominic Adams
Hot fucking meme, faggot. How about you get that kike and reddit shit out of my face and never fucking breathe again.
David Lewis
wew lad, take it easy before you burst a vein or something. Alternately, go back to reddit
John Clark
Get back on course and filter the trash. Same as always, flotsam of what never was.
Jeremiah Bell
You say that now, but no microtransaction has "zero effecgt" on gameplay. There are two possible outcomes, which are not mutually exlusive: 1) The players who buy skins/loot boxes with skins in them are an elevated class of players who have access to cosmetic options the rest of the player base does not. This breeds contempt and divides the community, even if only subconsciously. 2) The skins provide some intangible benefit to gameplay, either by fucking with a character's design to the point it's unrecognizable or by changing the visual indicator not to align properly with the hurboxes/hitboxes.
Either one of these is a dealbreaker for game balance and long-term player engagement. Both is cancer squared.
David Wood
Or, in my case, you just fucking despise randomized rewards wether you pay for it or not. Either way, it's a loss.
Michael Harris
Nigger I don't have a tumblr but I do browse tumblr to torture myself and to laugh at people that reside there. There is a difference between reading something that is on a site and actively participating, same thing with reddit.
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Carson Hill
Why would you do that.
pic related
Noah Collins
But the article links to Reddit, not the other way around.
David Ward
goddamn that image is cringeworthy
Camden Nguyen
I enjoy being enraged, I love being angry as fuck at something that doesn't concern me directly. It's a source of entertainment for me.
Jaxon Baker
You absolute madman
Jacob Baker
After reading the post, this looks like such an obvious fabricated story. Obviously I'm not gonna complain about it, but yeah this is fake.
Samuel Wilson
That's lootboxes brought to the extreme and it's never going to work outside mobile or those shitty games on the internet like tribal.
Ryder Howard
Doesn't matter. "We" can't lose with loot-boxes. There are three possible outcomes: Nothing, ineffective government regulation, a self-regulation sham (like the ESRB). We get to point and laugh either way. Every possible outcome will expose the involved actors as, greedy, exploitative and unable to change.
Christopher Peterson
This might be one of the most autistic things I've read this week next to Tumblr sperging over Xenoblade 2.
Benjamin Davis
I remember when I was in the military fresh out of high school. After a few months I had saved up like $10,000 in the bank because wtf do I have to spend money on they pay for housing and food for me. My chief asked me how much I had in savings (he was asking everybody to find out if anybody was rocking debt) and was shocked when I told him because nobody else in the fucking division had that kind of money. They all blew their entire paychecks every month, some of them on the same day as payday. Doesn't matter what they spent it on: beer, strippers, magic the gathering cards, they all frittered it away.
And I thought I was indulging myself when I would buy a $60 game every once in a while.
Jordan Campbell
People really spend every cent like that? I feel like I am wasting money every time I spend over $50 on anything.
Adam Long
Sup reddit?
Asher Rodriguez
To entice a teenager/kid to gamble is immoral, wrong and soon to be illegal. To question the parenthood is a fallacy. Another immoral thing to do is protect something g that is just wrong. That is what you are doing.
Jack Thompson
It's an archive link, and "people" as degenerate as whales are necessarily going to be posting in degenerate places.
Part of the advantage of the lootbox model for publishers is that paypigs are getting loot out of the same pool as players, so players can't necessarily tell them apart and bully the shit out of them for being retards.
Isaac Morales
>>>/reddit/
Matthew Evans
I don't think you can get a credit card under 18 which is when he was doing this, but if you mean debit card, why the fuck would you be monitoring it? It's his money, so he can spend it how he wants. If he's spending it on stupid shit then you did a shitty job raising him, but it's even more shitty to try to control what he does with his own money.
Ayden Ortiz
Sometimes spending money is all people have to go on when their lives are miserable.
Thomas White
Where do i lie on that scale? At least I'm well aware of where my money goes.
Carson Garcia
Cycle of self destruction, regret, and rebuilding? One might say you're addicted to that feeling of moving up in the world, but once you reach a plateau you give up and destroy yourself. That requires serious help son. Get some.
Ian Barnes
A little while ago there were autists here screeching about how even asking for archive links was a reddit thing. And now we have autists screeching that archive links go back to reddit on occasion. It reeks of stupidity.
Jacob Powell
Jesus, man.
Evan Evans
You think quitting a job and going full hiki until money runs out over and over again is healthy? Nigga needs help.
Jaxon Thompson
Why not?
Ethan Fisher
What should he be doing then?
Luke Walker
how come games like unreal tournament 2003 had regularly new, free maps released by the developers, retardo?
Oliver Ortiz
I thought that whale was one of the ships from Independence Day crash-landing into the sea from the thumbnail.
Ian Davis
I'm not his fucking dad, but stability is an obvious issue. If he somehow fails to find a job before, say , his rent is due or something, he could wind up homeless. This is assuming he doesn't live with someone else. Also, he's failing to build savings which limits his future options further, including retirement. Here's also an idea: What if he eventually exhausts every entry level job in his city, or word spreads around that this fag keeps quitting jobs, going off grid, and then coming back? My biggest point is that this cycle cannot go on. Eventually something will happen that will force him to get a real full time job or seek higher education or literally anything other than an endless cycle of shitting the bed at finance.
Webm is vidya related. Fuck dude. I can't believe I had to explain this.
Nolan Perry
He's not wrong
Elijah Watson
You sure love making assumptions about people, don't you?
Juan Lewis
Whales are completely retarded and always have been. They're the reason game companies can get away with completely jewing their players and it's because the whales bring up the slack.
It's archived, you retard.
It's underage, goons and normies. Gaf got nuked, so that cancer started spreading and halfchan has been leaking for a long while now. The only site left that can unleash a wave of cancer is SA. Once they go, everything is going to go to shit.
Adrian Cooper
I want Trump to make my hairy boipussy great again!
Lucas Brown
Doth the lady protest too much?
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Thomas Rogers
are you retarded? now you have godzilla and an even bigger godzilla fucking up your city together
Levi Anderson
are you implying that the bigger godzilla isn't on my side?
Chase Butler
It was a dumb city anyway
Xavier Smith
By your line of thinking if some faggot spending $10,000 on micro-transactions makes him happy who are we to judge? Hell why don't we legalize all drugs, reduce the drinking age and age of consent to zero, get rid of boarders, all join hands in the drum circle and vote for Bernie while we're at it.
Anthony King
that's not how godzilla works, he just fucks your shit up
Lucas Scott
It's an anime girl godzilla, for those who don't get it.
Evan Martinez
Another butthurt whale
Daniel Rogers
I've never played any of those. I don't typically play games which have a heavy emphasis on microtransactions/lootboxes, because it's a huge redflag to me that the core of the game has been altered to shoe-horn in some irritation agent which is there to encourage you to buy microtransactions in order to make it an enjoyable experience.
If the game isn't enjoyable out of the box, it's not worth paying for to begin with, let alone paying extra. I'll make the rare exception for free to play games, but usually I don't spend more than 10~20 hours on a free to play MMO before getting bored and confused at the myriad of different game currencies designed to throttle progression and just give up. The only exceptions being PSO2 and Let it Die, which I still play on occasion but never spent a dime on.
PSO2 would be so much better of a game if they just went back to the Hunter's License subscription model, directly sold minor cosmetic packs (if they wanted to make more side-cash), and then streamlined everything back into the core mechanics. Basically, I want PSP2i with PSO2's combat.
Gavin Young
Now if you just blew that money on strip clubs and liquor, rather than going hikki, I'd say you sound like a typical southern gentleman.
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Ethan Kelly
Oh boy you really got me there kiddo, how ever will I recover. Did I touch a nerve BernieBro?
Luke Harris
You have to go back
Jayden Peterson
A car, insurance, medical bills, food, home repairs, rainy day fund, future investments in waifu robots, anime tiddy mousepads, SHTF bug-out fund.. Literally anything besides imaginary money for shitty games? I could understand if he was some wanna-be e-sports "athlete" who was trying to git gud enough to compete and win prizes.. But fucking Counter Strikes and some shitty cookie-cutter city builder mobile game? This fucker should have killed himself to avoid the shame of living as the fucker who burnt 13k on nothing. He would have been better off spending that shit on hard drugs.
People like this faggot cannot do cost-benefit analysis. I'll never understand how you could be such a defective cunt that you can't think several hours into the future and realize that buying upgrades for a shitty mobile game isn't a smart choice. "What am I gonna spend it on though?!" If you've got that much money, go commission your favorite smut artists and get them to produce tons of porn, so at least the rest of the world can benefit from your failed existence. Give it to charity for all I fucking care. You clearly don't think you have a future even though you're willing to work multiple jobs to fund your autism.
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Caleb Gomez
dont forget /k/
Isaiah Ward
Are you /slow/, user?
Xavier Gonzalez
This is the mindset of a fucking fool, broken at the foundation.
Jonathan White
Calling it now, this fuck is going to be a welfare parasite soon, if he isn't already.
Xavier Jackson
>When (((they))) just keep printing it Even 's suggestion shitlist is a better alternative than sitting on anything more than a hundred bucks (or a thousand if you're a burger)
Thomas Wright
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Jack Campbell
Dubs thread
Brayden Perez
made 2 more warhammer related ones but fuck it
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Lucas Campbell
You do realize that the only true backing any currency has is trust in its value, right? Going to the gold standard won't change that fact, and money will continue to be printed.
Michael Lewis
And that's why you exchange money for goods. Money loses value faster than say a bunch of firewood, a dishwasher or a workbench.
Falling for the gold meme is fucking retarded since it's ultimately useless to 97% of the population (factoring in wealthy women and JEWelers) and you'll end up getting fucked by transaction costs/taxes.
Gold has very little utility in my day to day life. All money should be based on Eggs, or Lumber, or Salt - items which have value through utility. If the economy implodes, and I scraping by for survival, I want to trade in things that will help me in my day to day. Gold is useless to me, and I will not trade you any of my goods for a useless shiny piece of metal.
Dominic Stewart
It's also more easily exchanged for goods and services than a bunch of firewood, a dishwasher or a workbench.
That's just a natural consequence of an outright apocalyptic economic collapse, like Weimar Germany. An economy on a national scale, however, needs money that people trust in to function smoothly.
Luis Bailey
with that shit, I'd have enough money to buy a some land with a house, pay a few months of mortgage in advance, build a PC to work on projects, start a business,a suit of armor and maybe a horse and horse riding lessons.
and yet their are faggots who spend it on virtual things with no actual value.
Robert Thompson
Where the fuck do you live that you can buy a house for 10k, let alone having any left over for that other shit?
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Eli Anderson
Not a purchase I'll tell you that.
Justin Cook
it's enough to pay the initial downpayment, and a few months of mortgage plus bills. that's why you start a small buisness working at home, to keep yourself stable. making a PC can cost you $1000 if you know what you're doing.
Colton Gray
Drive one fucking hour away from a city and find out.
Luis Price
for some reason this was the only thing I read that made me feel regret for the money that dipshit wasted.
Isaiah Rodriguez
C H E C K E D
Sebastian Wilson
to be fair, armor is a nice thing to have, and can be used if properly maintained.
Dylan Perry
Most normies spend that on motherfucking Starbucks coffee or booze. Most women spend twice that on fancy clothing; most men spend thrice than trying to impress the women.
This is fucking nothing.
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Matthew Foster
But doing any of those things every single day without failure sounds absurd user. You've got to be sick of it one day sometime in a year.
t. Poorfag who survives by $4 a day.
Colton Richardson
He spent in on jpegs though, that's what makes it pathetic.
Justin Barnes
Only shit companies ever did this, good companies sold you a one-time-cost entire fucking expansion pack. Hell back in the day an actual map pack would be too large to comfortably download and it was economically impractical to sell a physical copy of only a few maps.
John Russell
High speed internet connections ruined as many things as they improved. Back then developers also had to ship a working product that had been properly tested for bugs because most people did not have a connection fast enough, or a connection at all, to download the patch.
Ayden Scott
>Cosmetic items slowly get more and more over the top to keep selling and ruin the existing art-style + any thought that went into making certain characters/classes instantly recognisable/distinguishable at a glance granted this specific complaint applies more to TF2 than Overwatch since the latter's art-style is shit anyway Still cancer.
Benjamin Anderson
And yes, for 90% of people nowadays with fast connections, unlimited bandwidth and cheap HDDs the first two aren't exactly a gigantic problem but that's the same as saying games don't need to be optimised now we can just brute-force performance with newer hardware. Also once every game forces cosmetic shit down your throat and wastes a few GBs it adds up if you've got them all installed at once.
Pretty much, you had to release a stable product and DLC was just not worth the cost of production: it was sell a full expansion or sell nothing. Console games also benefited from not having online MP since they had to sell themselves purely on SP or local coop.
Noah Clark
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Jaxon Russell
This. The reddit-paranoia has risen to wizardchan levels and beyond. Several threads a day get derailed into autistic screeching at the sheer possibility of reddit being somehow involved.
Landon Sullivan
You deserve to lose.
Brayden Rivera
Manchilds aren't grown men
David Ortiz
As opposed to things that are eaten once and then disappear, or tokens of vanity? What about rich fuckers who buy (((modern art))) or fifty different cars? They don't need that shit.
Luke Miller
You're a retard and your analogy is shit. You can resell modern art to some other sucker that will pay even more than you did for someone's menstrual smears on canvas, ditto for the cars.
What are you going to do with lootboxes?
Kayden Mitchell
HOW ABOUT $10k WORTH OF VIDEOGAMES YOU'LL NEVER GET THROUGH. Even a shitty MMO if you so desperately want the social part. Six years of WoW is just over a thousand bucks, a fraction of what he spent.
Landon Taylor
"What else am I going to spend it on?’
Fuck, you can buy a pre-86 full-auto for that money.
Nathan Carter
Or fucking invest it, save it, literally anything else.
Brandon Williams
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Eli Martinez
Yeah, and people eat gourmet food to enrich their toilets. Fuck off. You don't understand a thing. We're LITERALLY ON Holla Forums and you're fucking shaming a guy for spending his money on videogames.
Elijah Morales
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Jace Mitchell
Check em
Julian Walker
What did you expect? he's reddit-spacing,
Owen Sullivan
Kill yourself to spare us your progeny.
Ryan Carter
And you know what, people who buy microtransactions SHOULD be ashamed. It's rightfully shameful behavior, and their shame is supposed to cause them to correct that behavior. This is us telling you to stop being a little faggot bitch for your own good, and if that hurts your fee-fees then that means our message was communicated successfully.
Noah Garcia
He did spend them on {{{microtransactions}}} and {{{cosmetics}}} but at least in some cases the money would go towards making new games or more content for existing ones. Of course he contributed to the idea that consumers are just cattle you can milk for cash even after they buy your 60 dollar game. As for "worst possible way of spending money" I'm probably making a Strawman Argument but imagine if he had spent that money to pay some asshole to mutilate little girls in deep web live stream.
Gavin Martin
What's the matter, bitch nigga? Can't take a little banter? The boys bully you too much? You little sissy ass gayboy fag? Huh fuccboi? Huh?
William Harris
Or donating so niggers in Africa don't rightfully starve and get to breeding age. That's another way to waste money. The money this fuckwit wasted doesn't go into developing games, why would they waste money on that when they can just shit out more lootboxes and rake in the cash with minimal effort?
Publishers like EA and Activision want games as services so that they don't have to release new games, but simply keep churning out more shit for the in-game store.
Thomas Campbell
Nigga just play a F2P already, it will be the same shit without a $60 entry wall and shitty DLCs. Stop pushing F2P logic to payed games. Go be a good goy somewhere else
Cameron Mitchell
Sage so this shit thread dies faster. Also, kill yourself you mong. Or alternatively stop eating lead chips with nigger cum for breakfast.
Caleb Adams
Fuckoff Mundanefat
Michael Perez
Downboat negated :^). Keep defending microtransactions like a good little goy-golem.
Jordan Bailey
No thanks, i leave that trash to you. I'd rather have constant free content for triple a games. Why are you so butthurt at microtransactions? Are you afraid of becoming one of those idiots without self control that fall for a knife skin? Are you one of those jelly people that can't stand the fact that they can't have the flashiest outfit? Or are you just a lonely faggot jumping on the microtransaction hate wagon to feel like you are part of the community? In any case you have to grow the fuck up. I hear a lot of manchildren stomping their fat feet on the ground but nobody is actually telling what's the fucking problem. Pay to win microtransactions have been an epic failure. Cosmetic microtransactions work only on petty and spoiled idiots, and make the game better for everyone else. What are you so afraid of, little guy?
Colton Green
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Camden Rodriguez
I clearly need to work on my yiddish.
Evan Russell
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Owen Cooper
There are people who spend 10k on shoes, or mountain climbing in Tibet.
I do not understand the allure of cosmetics in online videogames. But to each their own.
Aiden Smith
€10000 buys you 142 videogames in my country. Provided they are new releases at full price.
Connor Green
Greetings, my equally dysfunctional brother.
Anthony Richardson
What you call depressing others call high society…like being a member of a golf club for example is a delight if you throw money around, but as soon as the flow stops you're loosing your "everyone's darling"-title.
Evan Harris
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Angel Taylor
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Aaron Wilson
That's about double the required amount needed to be classified as an alcoholic by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse
Landon Reed
I don't go to bars. Do people only drink there? Is there no food to eat? I thought bars were the inverse of restaurants in terms of a food:drink ratio. The last time I saw a price for a hard drink on a menu, it was at least $12, but then again, it was the kind of place where you have to make reservations and $55 just for your place at the table, but the food was all you can eat
Kevin White
Most normies tend to buy a shitton of free drinks for girls, and girls drink the expensive cocktails, not just beer.
Jack Diaz
Is that vocaroo sad because no one is pouring her the booze right in front of her?
Lincoln Foster
Being a normalfag is almost as bad as being a whale.
Colton Walker
I think she's just sad, and drinking to kill the pain.
William Sullivan
I want kotaku/plebbit/MSM to post articles about: "Local man says, 'I just realized I've been spending over $4,000 every year on myself and strangers at the weekend bar.'" That's starter investment money right there.
Parker Morgan
Most bars only have drinks, some have shit like toasties or some fried snacks, and if you're lucky there might be nuts on the bar for free. No real food though.
You're thinking of a small minority of normies who try to pick up girls all the time And most people don't buy a lot of drinks at bars, they get drunk on cheaper stuff at home, then go out to drink a few glasses in public.
Glass isn't dry, her drink is just mostly clear.
Justin Nguyen
Man, you have no idea how long it's been since I saw someone else say that. I remember the last decade there was controversy over "disc locked content" and now it's almost the norm.
Joshua James
Imagine rushing for first post to slide threads on a video game board.
Ethan Bailey
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Andrew Scott
Fucking WHERE?!? Even a motherfucking Coors Lite will set you back $5-6 around here, and it would be more like $8 if you want a beer that doesn't taste like watered-down piss.
Nearly every decent restaurant that isn't "family" will have a bar, though. It's hard to get out of one of those without spending $50 over a couple hours, between food and enough booze to keep you happy (two hard drinks or 4-5 beers). The difference is that people go to those places to socialize with friends; people go to a bar to get drunk.
Ryder Butler
Look closer, her glass is full of sake which is clear like vodka.
Eli Stewart
What a wimpy, limp-dicked faggot.
Connor Nelson
this is 8ch, that's a given m80boi
Joseph White
Care to show?
Camden Sanchez
Remember that average price includes $0.5 pisswater and $12 novelty beer. It does not mean the price you pay for decent beer almost everywhere.