I think maybe you can get a battlepass for $14.99 and maybe spend an aditional $10 or something to quickly get through the main Solo quest of the game and hit lvl 60?
Sadly that is on a per character basis, I think. Which would screw anyone completing multiple characters. So X6 --- update --- it's per account so I'll round it up to $30 per character to hit 60 and beat the main quest solo. So you gotta do a $180 purchase to play MOST of the entire game and never get the best gear (who cares though best gear is the dumbest thing in MMOs these days).
Anyway hth. ??? it's pure speculation tho.
Actually $180 is not bad for a really good tripple AAA launch title if it gave u everything for $180 (mega inflation) forever for good per expansion I would be cool with that. Although I feel like DI falls short on the triple AAA difficulty scaling. For that a solo run through hell mode should take like 90hrs and be fun and difficult and rewarding. It's not from what I can tell the whales are kinda disappointed in what they are getting. Are the devs sabotaging netease by making the base game more interesting than the whaling version?
I agree you shouldn't pvp in this game.
From what I can tell there is a mostly only 3 % difference in difficulty between normal and hellish characters and uber gear (like rank 2 stuff for the $1000 plebes). From reading reddit posts.
I whaled for wow a little bit. I bought like several tokens. And mounts and transmogs from the store. And a toy or something. So the potential whaleiness of me scares me. If someone came out with a really good game they could whale me good.
I heard games like path of exile are sort of insanity though.
That said.... if my monthly wow and EQ subscriptions probably have tallied upto... 120 months of subscription time.. I have spent a lot on those games.
Totalling at least $2,000 if u count a few minor purchases in the EQ cash shop as well. Over the course of 10 years worth of subs divided between the games. By these metrics these online games are really expensive to play compared to like Deus Ex. Which I have played at least 5 times and paid only $45 for, probably more like $90 adjusted for inflation. And I bought multiple games in the series. So bring that up to at least $300, Deus Ex and Deus Ex invisible war where the best though, Mankind Divided and stuff was OK storywise, the difficulty was shit tho and the level design meh to OK.
Are we all just whales waiting to happen?
--- It is a way cheaper hobbie than flying lear jets. Base Jumping. Shooting guns. Racing cars.
At least with brewing alcohal and gardening or raising goats u would get a return for your investment that is more than just entertainment.
If I could stick myself into a pod with a skinner box for the rest of my life and just tube feed myself on my disability check (retirement check from social security counts too) I would. And I would probably currently chose WoW, maybe. I'm looking forward to the day I can get paid for piloting an NPC character
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That said, I definitely have spent more on alcohol and movies for the total time of my life --- and I quit both of those for at least over 5 years now, I saw one movie in the last 5 years. So. I do have a subscription to a streaming service 😬
TLDR everything burns away --- DI has the potential to burn fast. Does it need too? Is it necessary? Or can you be an amateur whale?