you all are hypocrits (4:26pm EST Fri Apr 22 2005) what are you all **** about? what other things? (are suppose to be more important) what better things to spend your money on? is buying magic: the gathering cards for 300$ better? how about buying the latest video card for 600$? it's just for a game, so what's the point? how about buying a famous painting for a $1,000,000? nothing real about that so why spend the money? a game like everquest is as real as any computer game, as any hobby, as any form of art. it's here and it's gonna stay. real ppl play it (not me though, yuck, what do you think i am?) so lighten up. unless you guys are donating half your money to starving children in uganda or what ever i don't suppose you do anything more "real" with your money - by in perspective
The above statement made me think about the topic in a more broader perspective. I applaud the poster for his thoughts and for putting the words down in writing that I could not speak. I buy virtual items and money, and do you know what I do with it? I buy gifts in game for friends, things they have wanted for a while or I help a guildie level up their crafting, or I share it. I do it because in REALITY those friends online ARE my friends in real life. It is MY money. My husband is military and he does too. You are going to tell me that my husband, who serves his country and spends months away from family and saves deployment money up while he is gone, CANNOT come back to his country after risking his life for YOU to have the freedom to discuss this topic, and spend his money on what he wants? Albiet virtual gaming items that will help him catch up to his friends who DIDN'T get deployed or a new car so we can take a family vacation?
I agree with the poster that Hollywood celebrities can take their million dollar a month paychecks and buy glamours paintings and PAIRS OF SHOES for half a million dollars just because Marilyn Monroe wore them on a trip to Australia 60 years ago yet others sit here and argue that someone shouldn't be able to buy virtual currency or items or characters for whatever price they deem appropriate within their budget? Its different sides of the same coin people ... whether someone is a celebrity or a middle class working person, they are both spending their money on HOBBIES, INTERESTS, ENTERTAINMENT! I believe that if that is what people want to do, YOU HAVE NO SAY in what they spend THEIR money on unless you're a spouse or parent of the said spender (but that is a different issue all together). If you don't agree with it, FINE, simply move on, but don't flame others who do it
There are larger conflicts in the world and people have to argue about this? And all the responses in the posts with STFU or degrading comments to other posters who have legitimate opinons are simply 15yr old kids who are angry because they can't get mommy or daddy to cough up the dough and buy them that 1000 gold for $100.
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