Re:A Man Who’s Spent $70k Playing a Mobile Game
by Mozai on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @10:57AM
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70k / $5k = two weeks of wages. This is not peanuts; think about how much you make in a month and setting fire to half of that.
Re:A Man Who’s Spent $70k Playing a Mobile Game
by tlrobinson on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @11:11AM
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Over what time period? Lots of people probably spend 2 weeks of wages per year on entertainment of some kind.
Re:A Man Who’s Spent $70k Playing a Mobile Game
by wccrawford on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @11:38AM
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I would go as far as to say that any expensive hobby would take 2 weeks of someone's yearly salary. This could be music (listening or making), golf, photography, painting, Blurays... Tons of things.
Re:A Man Who’s Spent $70k Playing a Mobile Game
by ryan_j_naughton on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @02:32PM
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The article says:
>For this video, The Wall Street Journal met 31-year-old Daigo, who dedicates most of his time—and financial resources—to “Fate/Grand Order.”
Thus, it explicitly says he spends "most of his financial resources" on the game. For anyone to spend > 50% of their financial resources on a video game is clearly indicative of an addiction.
The guy mentions "I did stocks and futures". If the guy is a (retail) trader, and he's half good at it then he could be making $5k per day, and in that lense, 70k is peanuts.
There are so many things we don't know about this story, that's a WSJ clickbait :)