Damn, that's awful. I don't really know how FUT works, but I just find it ridiculous that it's possible to spend that much in game and there still be potential to spend much more. After you've already bought the game how does, say, £50 not get you everything else in it? It's fucking toxic.Dark Soldier wrote:My confession: I'm getting rid of Fifa 18 because I spunked £150 in total on FUT since release (lied in the thread due to that darling shame), and I could see it being way more. I had a gambling addiction when younger (fruit machines like a mug) and could feel the same pull with Fifa Points, the risk/reward. Was starting to justify in my head spending £50 every couple weeks on points for packs, which as anyone knows it won't just be £50 after a short while. And this from someone who doesn't even play it online, so it was completely pointless. So either I'm a mug for not just going nah mate I won't bother, or such things are fucking ridiculous for those with the inclination. If I'd been unemployed still, bye bye my benefits each week. Its why I never used to buy Fifa, and why I won't again
JonB wrote:Damn, that's awful. I don't really know how FUT works, but I just find it ridiculous that it's possible to spend that much in game and there still be potential to spend much more. After you've already bought the game how does, say, £50 not get you everything else in it? It's fucking toxic.My confession: I'm getting rid of Fifa 18 because I spunked £150 in total on FUT since release (lied in the thread due to that darling shame), and I could see it being way more. I had a gambling addiction when younger (fruit machines like a mug) and could feel the same pull with Fifa Points, the risk/reward. Was starting to justify in my head spending £50 every couple weeks on points for packs, which as anyone knows it won't just be £50 after a short while. And this from someone who doesn't even play it online, so it was completely pointless. So either I'm a mug for not just going nah mate I won't bother, or such things are fucking ridiculous for those with the inclination. If I'd been unemployed still, bye bye my benefits each week. Its why I never used to buy Fifa, and why I won't again
I don't think I've bought anything published by EA in recent few years anyway, but I'll make sure I don't now.
afgavinstan wrote:Mmmm. Food for thought. Apologies if my chat/journey lit dormant flames, mate.
Yeah, it's almost the exact same thing as gambling addiction and the amounts of money involved are really significant now. At least when we collected footy stickers it was just pocket money prices.Dark Soldier wrote:Basically £50 gets you 80 of the most expensive packs in game, which all contain at the very least three gold card players. Gold card players being the most valuable. You also get fitness cards and other guff. So open the pack, and you might get absolute shit that's worth nothing for in-game money (say 700 for a player), or there's a very slight chance you might get a God roll pack and get a player worth between 30k and 2mil. Of course the odds of getting the latter are very, very slim. Its the typical loop of open pack, get shit, think next one I might hit the kacpot, open another. If you hit the jackpot you think your luck is in, so you open more. Problem was any good players I was getting I was selling to raise my in game money which inevitably I' then spend on more packs and so the cycle continues. If you're not inclined towards gambling its easily avoided, if you are inclined, one little punt and its down the rabbit hole you go.
Dark Soldier wrote:Was starting to justify in my head spending £50 every couple weeks on points for packs, which as anyone knows it won't just be £50 after a short while.
mistercrayon wrote:pocket money prices
Seems like common sense to me, and I don't think you know what's typical any more than I do.Yossarian wrote:I’d suggest that your belief comes from your own spending on games, which I don’t think is very typical.
Dark Soldier wrote:Ah so the conflicting argument because...
Yossarian wrote:Were I to decide that I wanted to get into FUT, say, and I started buying card packs for that, it wouldn’t affect the small amount I spend on games each year, it would come out of my other disposable income. I’m sure some need to budget more carefully and for them it might be different, but I think that most people who buy games spend a small enough on them that they aren’t likely to be overly concerned about it and have other cash that they could put towards gaming instead of a meal or a night at the pub or whatever.
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