Am I a Whale? How much money have I spent on FFXIV?

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0:00 Intro to Whaling
2:23 You Don’t Pay My Sub
2:50 Mogstation
6:50 Dweeb IRL
8:29 Secret Category
10:25 Closing

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14 thoughts on “Am I a Whale? How much money have I spent on FFXIV?”

  1. I don't play XIV anymore, so my numbers would be bigger if I still did

    I think I've spent a total of ~$300 – $450 in subs, items and expansions, I don't regret most of it, like you there are some mog items I regret buying but in general I think it was money that gave me a valuable entertainment.

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  2. My definition of Whaling = Unnecessary expenditure on things that do either give you power, or a lot of fashion, that should be put in the game by non IRL currency. (all in game)

    In my personal opinion, You are a borderline Dolphin, and even then, I'm exaggerating.

    For me, non-deluxe versions of a game and subscriptions do not count towards being a Whale, since that is a necessary expense in order to play the game.

    I also do not count events like the convention, unless it's a super deluxe pass. This can be argued towards being an unnecessary expenditure, I do not count it since it is a traveling expense, and traveling is its own reward by itself, and it is a way to connect socially with friends and community members. This would be the equivalent of consider going to the theater, or a concert or to a Bar as "Whaling".

    What I do count:
    -MOGstation items
    -Deluxe edition versions of a game / Expansion
    -Collaboration merch (there is an argument to not count this)

    For the record, I only played the game for around maybe less than 6 months, years ago and only "unnecessary expenditure" I made was the Fenrir.

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  5. I just did a sweep of all my purchases across 10 years…I'm easily at $10,620 lmao I hate myself. the sub alone was $2200 over 10 years because I pay 25/mo cuz i have retainers xD

    that's for buying the game on ps4, all collector's edition on PC – 2 of which are physical collector's editions, figurine of Ultima/emote, the pizza emote during the event as well as the mount from the butterfingers event, various random purchases of my fantasia addiction, server transfers, alt name changes because I was too lazy to delete it and start over, character boosts, all mounts, all emotes, subs and random figurines from the online store like ardbert/g'raha, books, cookbook, etc etc. Do I regret it? No. Because I am having fun and honestly I spent way more playing gw2 in 10 years and their garbage fomo tactics before finally ditching that game.

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  7. I just calculated mine and it's 2706.41. But I've been playing for almost 9 years and the vast majority of that is subscriptions so it's not too bad tbh. collectors editions for SB, SHB and EW included
    Oh and I'm sorry to hear about your lay off, hope you get back on your feet soon!

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  9. I've played since 2.5 but i take frequent breaks betweem patches and I've spent approx £650, about 180 of that is my sub, 200 for the game, 130 on the mogstation, and the remaining 150 on irl merch

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