I'll gladly spend like $5-to-$8 monthly on a subscription if I feel like I've gotten five(-to-eight) bucks' worth of entertainment out of a game in a given month.
There's a couple gacha games where I pay for a ~$5 a monthly login bonus pass, and the same general logic applies to pet sites subscriptions. Since FR lacks a subscription proper, I'll choose to spend $5 or so on gems every month (usually around holiday weeks just because it happens to be when I'm thinking about it) if I've been playing enough to warrant it. Then I just throw the gems into my vault. That way, I don't feel like I buy gems when I want to buy something; instead, I buy gems when I've been playing the game a lot, and then I just have the gems on standby.
(The one exception is that there is one gacha game where I always plan to splurge for my fave's birthday bundle -- about ~$60 -- every year because he's my #1 fave. I have traveled internationally for the sake of the series/character anyway, so that fandom is already particularly important to me.)
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Re: Game Microtransactions/Real Cash Purchases
(Anonymous) 2025-04-13 12:42 pm (UTC)(link)There's a couple gacha games where I pay for a ~$5 a monthly login bonus pass, and the same general logic applies to pet sites subscriptions. Since FR lacks a subscription proper, I'll choose to spend $5 or so on gems every month (usually around holiday weeks just because it happens to be when I'm thinking about it) if I've been playing enough to warrant it. Then I just throw the gems into my vault. That way, I don't feel like I buy gems when I want to buy something; instead, I buy gems when I've been playing the game a lot, and then I just have the gems on standby.
(The one exception is that there is one gacha game where I always plan to splurge for my fave's birthday bundle -- about ~$60 -- every year because he's my #1 fave. I have traveled internationally for the sake of the series/character anyway, so that fandom is already particularly important to me.)