My $15 A Month “Hobby”

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Here in the Philippines, paying 750-800 pesos a month just to play a game could be a steep price to pay. But if you’re talking about the MMORPG World of Warcraft, it’s actually very cheap entertainment. Yes that’s how much I have to pay to play that game and I have absolutely no regrets. Sometimes I think that $15 my fellow online gamers in the US pay is a LOT cheaper than what I have to pay since I always think that the average joe who works for $8 an hour can pay for his WoW bill in just two hours of work (ok I know he has to pay for other stuff but still). Here in the Philippines, 800 pesos is not even a day’s pay for minimum wage workers here. Due to this thinking, I used to think that I had a pretty expensive “hobby” in my hands… then my friends started taking up airsoft war games.

You see two of my closest friends are currently first time teachers at our high school alma mater and they needed some kind of outlet to vent all the negative energy from the kids and complaining parents and faculty room drama at work. They chose airsoft. Basically it’s war games with pellet guns. I was kind of shocked to find out how much they spend on that hobby. Compared to the few thousands of pesos they spend, I now think my $15 a month playing WoW is a hobby well spent on. I can interact with a lot of people from all over the world just like what I currently do as part of b5media! I’d rather do that than risk getting shot in the ass by a pellet. =p

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