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<blockquote data-quote="Jeysie" data-source="post: 3640980" data-attributes="member: 51817">Around here, undiscounted games are $50-$65. So you can spend that much money on a game that'll only last you for 15-100 hours depending on the game, or one you have to shell out an extra $10 for every month if you decide you want to keep playing. Or you can spend a little extra and get a game that'll last you as many hours as you feel like playing, and that you won't have to spend a penny more to keep playing unless you want to. *shrug*Heh. Granted, I'm used to my own Barnes and Noble, where the Basic Set *is* available.If we assume that you can gather four people including yourself, that's $25 per person. You can easily spend more than that per person to see a movie ($9-10 for a ticket in my area, plus popcorn and soda) that you may or may not enjoy seeing, or go out to dinner, or go to the amusement park, etc. And those are all one-shot deals, unlike RPing, and you can't sell your goods and get at least some of your money back if you decide you don't like it.Also, when my group started, we only had one person who had played before. He owned a PHB and a DMG at the time, IIRC. Since we gamed online, the rest of us had to all buy at least our own PHBs to give it a go. So between the lot of us we pitched in around $120, not including the one guy who already played before.There's no ocean where I live, and it was more like $30 at least for rental and equipment. He spent a lot of money during his SCUBA college class, and that was before he bought his own equipment, which was a really huge expenditure. There's also the fact that SCUBA diving is dangerous unless you have an instructor or experienced diver with you.Peace &amp; Luv, Liz</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeysie, post: 3640980, member: 51817"] Around here, undiscounted games are $50-$65. So you can spend that much money on a game that'll only last you for 15-100 hours depending on the game, or one you have to shell out an extra $10 for every month if you decide you want to keep playing. Or you can spend a little extra and get a game that'll last you as many hours as you feel like playing, and that you won't have to spend a penny more to keep playing unless you want to. *shrug* Heh. Granted, I'm used to my own Barnes and Noble, where the Basic Set *is* available. If we assume that you can gather four people including yourself, that's $25 per person. You can easily spend more than that per person to see a movie ($9-10 for a ticket in my area, plus popcorn and soda) that you may or may not enjoy seeing, or go out to dinner, or go to the amusement park, etc. And those are all one-shot deals, unlike RPing, and you can't sell your goods and get at least some of your money back if you decide you don't like it. Also, when my group started, we only had one person who had played before. He owned a PHB and a DMG at the time, IIRC. Since we gamed online, the rest of us had to all buy at least our own PHBs to give it a go. So between the lot of us we pitched in around $120, not including the one guy who already played before. There's no ocean where I live, and it was more like $30 at least for rental and equipment. He spent a lot of money during his SCUBA college class, and that was before he bought his own equipment, which was a really huge expenditure. There's also the fact that SCUBA diving is dangerous unless you have an instructor or experienced diver with you. Peace & Luv, Liz [/QUOTE]

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