253 réponses à ce sujet

[themaxzero]

Khavos wrote...

Maybe some of you guys should get jobs that don't have you living paycheck to paycheck?

Yes I got the feeling some of these complaints stem a little bit from jealousy.

Modifié par themaxzero, 13 mars 2012 - 02:13 .

[NightSabre22]

Holy moly op, you seriously blew away alot of money. I personally prefer to get stuff the old fashioned way.

[jimmyw404]

lol @ trying to compete on a multiplayer leaderboard on a singleplayer game in the first couple days when everyone is playing the SP campaign, and then paying $$$ to win.

Thanks for subsidizing the cost of my games bro, I appreciate paying the same amount for games over the last decade.

[Clayless]

Khavos wrote...

Maybe some of you guys should get jobs that don't have you living paycheck to paycheck?

Having jobs has nothing to do with it. You're deluded if you think us that have jobs will agree that $320 on Spectre packs is a good idea just because we can afford it.

[Kastrenzo]

Hey I got 90% of those things and I didn't even spend $20.

[tonyng9]

I find it funny that people are calling the OP stupid for spending money. Maybe he's the smart one because he has so much money. If you really care about $200 so much, you shouldn't be playing Mass Effect 3 anyways, you should be working or studying/learning so you can get a bigger wage. Sure buying video games or in-game items are not a productive use of money. But spending 200 hours playing a video game is by far less productive. People don't have to be producing goods 24/7. Sometimes people have enough money that they choose not to make more or save more.

[KayB1991]

Wow, i would never spend that much on random packs in the game but if you have the money go ahead, they put the option in the game for it anyway. I'm just going to stick to using points i earn in the game and maybe spend, at the most, $5 on spectre packs, don't want to buy a lot of them and get weapons I already have or don't need

[golyoscsapagy]

Well, let's see, I don't know where the math will take me.

Let's say I'm in an awesome gold group with 3 other quarian infiltrators farming geth. That's about 25 mins per round (counting in bio breaks and whatnot) for 70k creds. In Europe a spectre pack is EUR 2, so your 'earnings' are EUR 2,33.

If you play a regular 160h shift a month it would be EUR 672.

I don't know about you but I earn way more than that. For anyone earning more than EUR 672 it would be a rational decision to work more instead of grinding, and buy packs.

Sure, you like playing more than working probably, but emotions aside the OP probably made a totally rational choice if he was working instead.

[heretica]

How is it rational? You've got a strange understanding of what's rational...

[golyoscsapagy]

Catt128 wrote...

How is it rational? You've got a strange understanding of what's rational...

How is it not?

You work for a month in extra shift. Buy 336 spectre packs. You are at exactly the same point if you grinded for the last month. Any extra money remaining after the purchase is your profit. Setting aside emotional preferences of course. And I'm pretty sure rationalism sets aside emotions.

Modifié par golyoscsapagy, 13 mars 2012 - 03:29 .

[xiaoassassin]

The amount of money OP spent only seems like a lot if you've never held a job in your life. It's not an exactly smart use of money, but it IS his money. People have spent much more on a piece of hardware/software/funtime. See: Hookers, MacBooks. 320 is hardly spurging. 

Modifié par xiaoassassin, 13 mars 2012 - 03:37 .

[Dangerfoot]

This is not a MacBook.

This is a random chance at getting digital items in a video game that you can easily earn those very same items on.

For a CHANCE at digital items, yes, $320 is a lot. Are people actually trying to turn this around and call people poor losers for not spending way too much money on video games?

[FPSxChris]

See thats why i dont play the lotto knowing my luck i would spend $500 on lotto tickets and be 1 number off lmao

[jimmyw404]

golyoscsapagy wrote...

Well, let's see, I don't know where the math will take me.

the flaw in your reasoning is the assumption that spending the money will really affect his enjoyment of the game. Sure that's a personal thing, but look at the OP, it sure didn't improve his enjoyment of the game.

In MMOs people use $$ to avoid doing annoying **** in order to do fun ****. If you're paying $$$ to avoid playing MP games, what exactly are you going to do after you pay the $$?

Fact is, he tried to pay his way to be competitive in being #1 by spending the GI money he got for being an injured veteran. I don't really care how he spends his money as long as he's enjoying his life, but you can't rationalize it the way you did because the end-goal isn't present.

Modifié par jimmyw404, 13 mars 2012 - 03:54 .

[golyoscsapagy]

jimmyw404 wrote...

golyoscsapagy wrote...

Well, let's see, I don't know where the math will take me.

the flaw in your reasoning is the assumption that spending the money will really affect his enjoyment of the game. Sure that's a personal thing, but look at the OP, it sure didn't improve his enjoyment of the game.

In MMOs people use $$ to avoid doing annoying **** in order to do fun ****. If you're paying $$$ to avoid playing MP games, what exactly are you going to do after you pay the $$?

Fact is, he tried to pay his way to be competitive in being #1 by spending the GI money he got for being an injured veteran. I don't really care how he spends his money as long as he's enjoying his life, but you can't rationalize it the way you did because the end-goal isn't present.

No, I didn't miss this point. That's the emotional preference part. If your sole aim is to buy a lot of spectre packs, and you are not really into grinding (or rather, if you feel like you are grinding), buying is the way to go. If you play the game for playing it, well, of course there's no sense in buying anything, it won't add that much fun factor.

Honestly I think being competitive in this game is only about grinding levels as fast as you can and promoting stuff. All you need is 2 friends with lots of free time and start to grind and promote quarian infiltrators against gold geth. 2 should be relatively high level (with lvl6 sabotage) the 3rd can be of any level. By the time the highest level reaches 20 and promotes, the lowest level should reach lvl6 sabotage. This way you can grind tons of xp real fast.

Another question that it's utterly pointless and boring, but it would keep you high in the leaderboard no problem.

[Gel214th]

I bought a lot of packs as well with Bioware Points. Got a few classes that I really liked, along with some weapons and I enjoyed the game a lot more as a result.

Did I get my money's worth of enjoyment over the last two days? I think so.

[Madeline Lightning]

Cobra5 wrote...

You didn't spend $200.

   200 dollars isn't really alot. I don't see why he'd lie.

[GracefulChicken]

$200 isn't a lot, so whoever is saying the naysayers are just jealous probably aren't right... Most people make 5x that in a week... the reason it's ridiculous is because paying $200 for anything random (and worse, digital with no real-world value or chance of real-world value) is just silly lol

[Makatak]

If the multiplayer hadn't already started to stale, I'd say, "Good for him."

But the fact that this is a transient environment that already feels like it has a short lifespan (3 difficulties, 3 enemies, and limited theaters of conflict, all the same 11 waves with the same 3 objective waves on the same 3 waves) tells me that that money is going to feel like it vanished in something around a month.

[Madeline Lightning]

Makatak wrote...

If the multiplayer hadn't already started to stale, I'd say, "Good for him."

But the fact that this is a transient environment that already feels like it has a short lifespan (3 difficulties, 3 enemies, and limited theaters of conflict, all the same 11 waves with the same 3 objective waves on the same 3 waves) tells me that that money is going to feel like it vanished in something around a month.

It does get stale and the longer they wait on fixing the item loss multiplayer bug, the less I care about playing it, but it would definitley be better if they put in the characters from your actual crew to play too... of course not with all their powers. It would be fun to play Tali,  Garrus or Jack to me.

Modifié par Madeline Lightning, 13 mars 2012 - 04:37 .

[jimmyw404]

GracefulChicken wrote...

$200 isn't a lot, so whoever is saying the naysayers are just jealous probably aren't right... Most people make 5x that in a week... the reason it's ridiculous is because paying $200 for anything random (and worse, digital with no real-world value or chance of real-world value) is just silly lol

The average net income in America isn't 5 * 200 * 52 ($52000). Gross income for people ages 25 or older is around 30,000USD and the average personal income for people playing ME3? Probably closer to $15,000 lol.

Besides, you're missing the point. The guy is on a fixed disability income from the govt and has a family. He isn't wealthy.

Modifié par jimmyw404, 13 mars 2012 - 04:43 .

[iEscaflowne]

>Spending $320 on something you're going to play for 8 days
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA