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The Nickel & Dime Generation

Phaethon360 sends in a piece that looks at how quickly game costs can add up these days, now that DLC, microtransactions and standalone expansions are commonplace, writing, "If you were trying to the think of the most expensive games to play, Rock Band or a monthly-fee MMORPG would come to mind. But Halo 3 is right up there, too." It's reminiscent of a recent post at IncGamers where the author tallied up how much he'd spent on World of Warcraft over the past several years, and was astonished to realize it numbered in the thousands of dollars.

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  1. It is immoral and unethical... by AliasMarlowe · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...to leave a fool with any money.

    This is taught in business ethics 101, and reiterated in all subsequent business ethics classes.

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  2. Re:DLC by selven · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think wife + kids addon and games are incompatible. You could try installing a different distribution of gf but I haven't had any successes yet.

  3. Re:DLC by Shadow+of+Eternity · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's no way to get it to work in the long run, trust me. Reformatting's just plain prohibitively expensive and time consuming which only leaves dual-bootying which is almost impossible to start up properly and usually ends in a complete system failure if they ever interact in the slightest way.

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