![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
It's kind of funny, but my latest GW2 fixation has resulted in me spending less money than usual.
That isn't even because it takes up a certain amount of time while requiring no subscription (you buy a GW game, you can play it forever). Rather, it's because the last class I teach is near a Starbucks, and I'm usually both hungry and tired at that point, especially if I have a still-longer day at campus ahead of me. The prices are exorbitant IMO ($11 for a small mass-produced sandwich and 16 oz tea??), but it was what was there, so periodically I'd stop by and fortify myself for the rest of the day.
So one day, I was thinking through GW2 headcanons as I was heading to class / being tempted by the lure of a not very filling Starbucks "meal", and suddenly thought, hey, $11 is like ... 800 gems in GW2. You can get a lot of cool stuff for 800 gems, and I enjoy those a lot longer than a heated up sandwich and tea I could probably make myself if I got up earlier.
I can't actually justify spending $11 on game stuff instead of literal food (even if kind of shitty literal food) every time I'd normally have picked something up at Starbucks, though. That feels weird and unhealthy somehow. It's more a bargain with myself when the lure is especially strong, I guess, and I've stopped eating at Starbucks pretty much altogether. So the net result is actually spending less rather than more.
*\0/*, I guess?
That isn't even because it takes up a certain amount of time while requiring no subscription (you buy a GW game, you can play it forever). Rather, it's because the last class I teach is near a Starbucks, and I'm usually both hungry and tired at that point, especially if I have a still-longer day at campus ahead of me. The prices are exorbitant IMO ($11 for a small mass-produced sandwich and 16 oz tea??), but it was what was there, so periodically I'd stop by and fortify myself for the rest of the day.
So one day, I was thinking through GW2 headcanons as I was heading to class / being tempted by the lure of a not very filling Starbucks "meal", and suddenly thought, hey, $11 is like ... 800 gems in GW2. You can get a lot of cool stuff for 800 gems, and I enjoy those a lot longer than a heated up sandwich and tea I could probably make myself if I got up earlier.
I can't actually justify spending $11 on game stuff instead of literal food (even if kind of shitty literal food) every time I'd normally have picked something up at Starbucks, though. That feels weird and unhealthy somehow. It's more a bargain with myself when the lure is especially strong, I guess, and I've stopped eating at Starbucks pretty much altogether. So the net result is actually spending less rather than more.
*\0/*, I guess?
