Comments on: Why Spend Money?

By: Burbie52

Burbie52 — Fri, 25 May 2012 17:16:42 +0000

I agree with you Bonzo, I am very picky as well about what I buy in Home. Lately I have only bought clothing and the Clusterpuck and Mini Bots games, all well worth their price. The bundle packs of new clothing that Drey puts out are always worth the cost, you get so much for the $4 spent, way more than if you bought them separately. I am all about decorating and fashion so that is where my focus has gone now, personal spaces have lost their luster for me now, if I want to decorate I will redo the ones I have.

By: GlowingMickeyVan

GlowingMickeyVan — Fri, 25 May 2012 04:11:01 +0000

I guess I’ll be the oddball. I haven’t bought much since update 1.6. Glitching personal spaces was my #1 favorite thing to do on Home. Before 1.6 I rarely ever glitched a public space. I just gliched personal spaces. I bought spaces for the sake of gliching them. The furniture I bought was for the same reasons. But not the usual reasons as most. Those of you who know me know my gliches took lots of time and thought. Multiple drops Like the gargoyle at paris where you jump three times and each landing gets you closer to the finale which is the street below. After the 1.6 my usual addiction of buying a space, and spending weeks of hours on end to create a masterpiece were all gone. I found myself hanging out with a new set of friends, but now we’re gliching public spaces. So why buy anything? I mean my wardrobe is so far beyond bulging that it becomes a real hassle with every single free reward to track down what was sent to storage. I sent ALL shoes, ALL costumes (except a few used for other purposes), all jewelry, and nearly all hand items to storage. All to keep my current items as I want them. Some tell me to fav them. I could, but all those hearts annoy me. So Id rather leave them and complain. Hey at least Im honest. So Ive been buying Home avatars so long now that my original avatars are becoming “new items”. I wore the glowing E3 suit the other day with some glowing accessories and got 3 different comments that night by Home users wanting to know where I got the cool new avatar. Its what… 2 years old? The new stuff is stretching the limits of the character. The old stuff doesnt. So that the old stuff now looks “retro” and in return, the noobs think my “old as beta” avatars are new avatars. So why BUY?
I cant glich my spaces anymore even with multiple bundles of 100 items of furniture. I’ll admit I bought a couple spaces that were on sale for the sheer joy of decorating. But without space merges and the shock and awe of a floating rug a mile up and out, my guests were somewhat bored. So I thought to myself.. OK this is finished. I’ll hang out in public and just talk. Pretty-much everything else I enjoyed is gone, so if I hang out I have plenty of avatars. Heck I have stuff I bought in bundles that Ive never even worn. My newest avatar fancy is bringing the oldest stuff I have out to the light of Home again. I’ve been going through my storage and giving some of this stuff a new look. And I’m liking what I see. So again i have to say “I’m not buying”. Besides. Less money spent on PSH means more money spent in Disney World.

In a means not to sound like a butthole I’ll add that there was a point in time when I bought all the newest avatars and all the newest spaces. I enjoyed the thrill of being the first one to wear it, and the attention one gets from it. Now, the hassles of the wardrobe overpower that joy. So unless Sony expands the wardrobe drastically im stuck in a timewarp. I cringe at sending avatars I spent REAL money on to storage. I guess Im a cheapskate. But thats my take on it.
Bonzo, if it makes you happy then buy it. Home is about having fun. Thats the ONLY reason for Home in my opinion. So kudos to you

By: BONZO

BONZO — Fri, 25 May 2012 01:18:26 +0000

LOL i like that. Ill have to remember that one.

By: BONZO

BONZO — Fri, 25 May 2012 01:17:40 +0000

Frankly my Home budget isn’t even that high, but I do end up buying something every update. Specially this year that has see so much awesome content. Particularly from Lockwood.

By: Dr_Do-Little

Dr_Do-Little — Fri, 25 May 2012 00:58:36 +0000

I remember my firs days on home, not understanding why would people buy virtual items with real money… Now i spend most of my “off time” on home, with a clutterd wardrobe an furniture. I justified myself saying to my “physical” friends “it’s real stuff in a virtual world”

By: Dlyrius

Dlyrius — Thu, 24 May 2012 17:11:32 +0000

Nice article!

In my really real world, I loathe shopping, but on Home, my avi seems to be just the opposite. She goes to bed early on Tuesday nights just so she can get up early to see what new and exciting things await her in the store Wednesday morning. I think it is because unlike me, she can rock any outfit she puts on. However I don’t buy her things just to have them, we do have standards

As for spaces, we both love those and my furniture collection has grown leaps and bounds over the last year. Each space we decorate allows us to express our creative side in ways I could never do in real life. At times I think it would be really fun to be able to decorate like this in the real world too, but then I would have to spend entirely too much money buying homes, paying taxes, mowing lawns, and picking up little yard bombs left by my tons of companions

I guess it is better if I just keep my material girl in Home where she is limited to $5 a week for her shopping allowance. Well, at least until I get a real job with a real paycheck LOL!