Colonel Cornbread
Minmatar
Brutor tribe
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Posted - 2009.06.12 18:05:00 -
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You know how GTC's cost around 15 dollars (well, 60-day ones are like 30 or 40 dollars at the local game store, right?) and you can convert it to ~400m ISK?
Due to the nature of the game, you NEED ISK and time to do anything in the game. We all have time but not ISK.
Now, before I get to the point, here's some backstory: I hate work. Currently I am only 18 years old so I work at a fast food restaurant until I get a real job (but after I finish college...), and I hate THAT job. I want the real job so I can make some real money and have some real hours. Everytime my managers ask me to do a favor for them - as in, I work one of the shifts that someone else needed to cancel out - I always say 'No.' due to my gaming addiction (well, I wouldn't really call it an addiction, it's more of a hobby and I just have too much free time) I am always putting gaming first before work. I don't spend that much money, I only spend it on buying games, monthly fees, some necessities, and that's it.
So... ever since I've been playing this game seriously (it took me a while to appreciate the game, but now that I have a strong vision of how the game works, I enjoy it soooo much more), my greed for ISK has grown more and more. So, I always think of spending some money to get a couple billion ISK in the game to fund my pvp habits...
Then there's the work option to make more money. All of the managers usually don't ask me to do a favor since they know my answer - but something happened - a week ago, when I had caught notice of someone complaining that they needed someone to work for them on 'that' day, I spoke up. I'd work for that person. My co-workers and managers were astonished.
Did I actually say yes? I couldn't even believe myself, my very first thought after that was 'maybe I can buy a couple of GTC's and get some real ISK in my wallet.'
A week later, a manager actually asked me to work some overtime (the shift was 5-10pm, and they wanted me to work to midnight). I said, sure. Two hours is basically a 30 day GTC or a monthly fee for me.
However, I have not yet spent money on the game, I've never spent any real amounts of money on games except to buy the game, and monthly fees: so I am a little... nervous about buying GTC's...but I am actually making more money IRL because of this game.
This game also encourages me to work more if I'm training something for a while - because I could just work while I train some long skill. Am I the only one affected by EVE in this way?
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