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Re:It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal by ekianjo on Sunday June 05, 2022 @05:12AM (#31629242)
> they're just people with an addiction.

Everyone has an addiction to something. You are lucky if its to something thats cheap and legal.

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Re:It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal by xmodem on Sunday June 05, 2022 @05:15AM (#31629252)
It depends on the timeframe obviously, but $10k is hardly cheap.
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Re:It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal by charlieyu1 on Sunday June 05, 2022 @07:34AM (#31630005)
10k a year is hardly a lot…

As a Japanese gamer says, paying for games is like dining out. You get nothing useful after a good meal, and paying for games may as well be more useful.

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Re:It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal by allarm on Sunday June 05, 2022 @08:00AM (#31630194)
> 10k a year is hardly a lot

In my country 16k/y is a median salary. It’s heavily influenced by 1 or 2 major cities - the rest of the country earns much less, 10k/y is considered to be a decent salary. So no, it is a huge amount of money.

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Re:It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal by ryl00 on Sunday June 05, 2022 @10:22AM (#31631227)
> You get nothing useful after a good meal

Uh... the nutrition that your body needs to keep going? Is this a trick question?

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Re:It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal by asutekku on Sunday June 05, 2022 @11:10AM (#31631664)
Compared to $10 meal, nutritionally $100 meal is not worth it.
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Re:It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal by chii on Sunday June 05, 2022 @05:29AM (#31629330)
it is cheaper than drugs. If you got to be addicted to something, i don't think these mobile games are the worst out there.

Of course, the best outcome is not to be addicted.

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Re:It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal by Panoramix on Sunday June 05, 2022 @05:45AM (#31629432)
What a strange logic. You can be addicted to hundreds of things a the same time, it doesn't justify what these videogames are doing.
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Re:It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal by xmodem on Sunday June 05, 2022 @07:24AM (#31629946)
I'm not sure that "this thing isn't as bad as illegal drugs" is a winning argument.

(I'm also not sure it's actually true, either - would depend on what metric you use)

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Re:It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal by ekianjo on Sunday June 05, 2022 @08:38AM (#31630450)
Where did I mention its cheap, exactly?
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