Price on PSO?

[Kasual]

How much would you realisticly pay to play this game that we all love? And i don't mean along the lines of 'I'd pay any goddam price to play PSO!'. I mean a mature response.
I've already bought an import keyboard at £70($105) in anticipation of the PAL PSO release. I reckon in total i will eventually spend:
£70 Keyboard
£40 PAL PSO disc
£35 BBA
£50 Connection to broadband with GIOinternet
£18 1st monthly fee for broadband
That's £213 in total, roughly $300 to you US players. When i told my girlfriend how much it will cost she wasn't too pleased. In fact everyone i know thinks i'm mad for paying this just to play a video game, sod 'em. Realisticly i'd probably spend up to £400-£500. Damn it! This PSO costs money and hours! Oh and i forget i've gotta pay for the Hunters License yet!
So how much would you pay up to? taking in to consideration your budget, job, bills, you're a kid etc?

[Kasual]

BTW, that question mark symbol is meant to be a UK pound sign. Must be something wrong with my computers keyboard.

[rena-ko]

for me march 7th means:
cube: 160-180 euro
pso: 50-60 euro
bba: 50 euro
modem: 50 euro (i'll buy both and i hope i get them cheaper somewhere...)
keyboard i got allready for astonishing 60 euro
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so i hope i get away with around 300 euro (without keyboard), could be also 330 euro, i dont know yet...

monthly this would mean:
modem: HL + 5 euros + 1/2 cent per min (in the night) (which i'm using right now and can sum up to 40 euro per month)
bba: HL + 55 euros + nothing (dsl-flatrate) (what i dont plan to install at my home, but may use at a friends home for free ^_^;)


ah, and yes, me being student i have not the biggest income... no parttime job as well yet so i saved money for 4 months or so (since there are also other things to be paid - rent+monthly bills, clothings, university etc...).
hm... is this really what you wanted to know?


edit: (hl +) ah yes: 1 euro = 1 us $ = 1*2/3 british pound...


<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: rena-ko on 2003-01-30 06:24 ]</font>

[Jack]

I'll be paying nothing for the actual game (Getting it for my birthday on March 14th), the Hunter's Licence fee will be paid by me if I can use an Electron Debit Card to pay, and I'll also be buying the PSO Super Happy Fun Box (http://www.pantsofevilgamers.com/kb) when that comes out.

[Atax]

I've paid alot of money for PSO, so far:

JP ver 1 w/ modem = $168.84 AUD

ASCII keyboard = 128.64 AUD

Cost for having PSO and keyboard sent to me (via fedex & UPS) = $66.23

2 HL purchases so far = $30.00 AUD

Cost for sending ver 1 to JP for ver 1.1 via EMS = $49.00 AUD

Probably will be spending another $30 AUD to have ver 1.1 sent back, plus a further $15 for a new HL.

So all up? About close to $500. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_eek.gif





God, I'm ****ing insane! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_dead.gif



<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Atax on 2003-01-30 06:44 ]</font>

[Tekershee]

I'm having the same problem as well with the pund signs appearing as question marks. £?£?£?£

I wonder how much the Hunter's License is gonna cost.

[-VeG-]

I have paid the following.
GC 250 Euro back on the first day gc released,
Memory cards, 2x each 20 Euro
Extra controller 30 Euro
Keyboard 105.80 Euro
just need my bba and the game and im set to go=)

425.80 Euro without bba and the game
game around 59 Euro bba at around 40-50 Euro
talking about a total of 524.80 to max 525.80 Euro
not including the HL!

The HL is gonna be around 5 Euro per month. Got those news from Miateam.de


<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: -VeG- on 2003-01-30 17:08 ]</font>

[BeatZero]

game: $50 (x-mas $)
BBA: $35
keyboard: $90
monthly fee: $10

[Kasual]

So, It seems excluding the price of the Gamecube console it costs us all about 200 pounds/$300/300 euros to play PSO. That's a lot of money to play a single game. It's a good job it's worth it.

[Nawms]

I have spent... let me see... nearly $250 on the game.
I had to drill through reinforced 1 ft thick masonry, that was a pain.

[polishedweasel]

Got my GCN more than A year ago

GCN 200$
PSO 50$
No keyboard, I've gotten pretty handy with the software pad (20 - 30 WPM)
Modem 35$
hunter's Liscence 120$ annually.
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400$ on the first year.

I have a job and I'm still in high school, the only thing I didn't pay for was the Hunter's Liscence. So no rent, bills, etc. It's not too bad for me!