Do your fiscal habits in video games match those of your IRL fiscal habits?

I think I vary from game to game. In RPGs I can rarely bring myself to buy anything because I always feel like there's bound to be something better that I'll be able to get if I hold on a bit. By the time I finished Mass Effect I was loaded, but two thirds of my team were still equipped with pea shooters. But in sims games etc, I'm happy to splurge left right and centre, and spend most of the game in the red.

I think IRL I fall between these stools, most of the time. So yeah, no correlation for me I'm afraid.

I guess they're the same. I am very cheap in real life but not afraid to splurge on things I really want, and that's how I am in games as well. I always have a big stockpile.

totally. i'm loathe to spend down to zero, so i'll go through two or three towns without upgrading my gear, just barely scraping by in battles and hoarding money until i get some shit that will last me awhile.

no way. if i had the same attitude to managing my money IRL as i do in games, i would be a rich, friendless asshole.

I lose RTS games cos i'm stingy and like looking at a huge bank balance

My brother, on the other hand, has been savings freak ever since...forever ago, all his life. As mayor in Sim City, he's accumulate millions and spend it only when necessary.

Dammit, what were his settings for his taxes? I can NEVER build up millions in my treasury in Sim City! I'm forever getting crappy loans that I can't pay back.

But to answer the thread question, my fiscal habits match my IRL fiscal habits, for sure. I'm a bit of a penny-pincher, and while I occasionally blow my wad on something big (ie, computer, Wii), I always make sure I have a good amount of money left just in case.

I try to always make sure I have plenty of whatever I might need, so I'm often grinding for cash, and then when I have plenty of it I'm always loading up on potions etc. which I'm kind of like that IRL, when I'm not watching my budget, I have no problem spending like $40 on bars of soap and $60 on bags of Tidy Cats

but yeah I don't really go after the top-of-the-line unless I can readily afford it and have figured on the TVM already in my head. If bitch can't swing it with the third-banana weapon in the game and excalibur costs ten times as much then fuck it, bitch can die

like $40 on bars of soap and $60 on bags of Tidy Cats

talking about stocking up btw, not that I go on eBay and bid up Irish Spring or something just because haw haw rent ain't due for three more weeks, though that's clearly a great idea

I'm a total spendthrift in video games while I'm generally tighter with money IRL. Like, I follow a budget and stuff and try to always have a cushion in the bank but in RPGs I'll blow my whole treasury on the newest-and-soon-to-be-worthless equipment. Maybe if you could earn the kind of coin IRL that you do in RPGs just for beating on trolls I'd be an ILX mod more of a wastrel.

ahaha I read that

Note that ILG mods lost their two main trolls a long time ago, unfortunately

I dont count me money irl and often end up spending what i dont have. However, in games, i am usually quite careful about how much i spend and will waste a long time before buying anything expensive. I think i should do things the other way round cos it's ok and easier to live while broke in a game than irl ...

i make money hand over fist in games, faster than i can spend it. well that's how it's turned out in grid and gta iv anyway. irl i could also earn packets as an i.t. contractor - except i've been out of work for the last three months.

either way, when it comes to spending i think i'm pretty tight.

yeah GRID is something amazing when it comes to money payout, I get $$kerching$$ for even coming dreadfully last anytime, but I spend it pretty quickly.
Different for GTA4, I'm pretty tight arsed when it comes to spending any money on guns, especially when I know where all the free ones are. And fuck paying over $10000 for a hospital bill - I'd rather reset the game.

I'm a tight arse with money IRL too.

('too' as in compared to video games, not compared to ledge. lol)

i dont get it ste, what else are you gonna use the money for?

i'd rather let the little counter in the corner go down than go through the effort of resetting/replaying

in gta i mean

i'm way more frugal in video games.

what else are you gonna use the money for?

haha nothing, but for some reason I just *like* to have all that money in gta. I think it comes from Vice City playing where I clocked the $9999999999 mark and just had to keep it after that.

What little counter?

haha that's what we need IRL. a little counter in the corner. I am so bad about knowing my overall cash level in my wallet, I check my bank account nearly every day online but still, I would LOVE a little phone applet that just updates my $$$ituation in near-real-time

would make it so much easier to avoid impulse purchases - beepeepeepeepeepeep - whoa whoa whoa CIRCLE BUTTON this dirty harry boxset is going to put me under the total I need for a new sofa CIRCLE BUTTON whew thanks mr amazon shop

I'm currently in a cycle of gambling/reloading in Witcher. I gotta get up to 5K for new threads!

I got 50 gold from a dude the other day (obv I killed him)

I keep trying to steal a new sofa from the raccoons that live in my backyard but I just keep getting bars of Irish Springs.

yeah a full sleeper is a rare drop

that's what we need IRL. a little counter in the corner

YES! I'd happily wear some big clunky, dumb-looking VR headset all day every day if it meant I could always have my current cash level in the top right corner of my HUD. Little map in the bottom left would be good too. Plus hunger and energy bars bottom right! And people's names popping up above their heads!

"Lives remaining" would suck though.

just poke 23645,0 !

I'm a big spender in games, but a saver in RL.

In GTAIV I'm permabroke, I've been kicked out of taxis halfway to my destination more times than I care to remember.
In RPGs I can never afford Uber Magic Items or anything because gold flows through my pockets like water.

I have no idea why, but in 99% of games, I start feeling guilty if I get anything approaching rich, so I just spend spend spend.

It may have something to with the fact that if, by some strange phenomenon I do acquire a vast ammount of cash in a game, so much that I literally will not be able to spend it, I start feeling like I've somehow cheated, and have to piss it up the (virtual) wall somehow.

I have a hard time not putting in cheat codes for money in some games... if there were such a code in life I'd probably have a hard time avoiding that too.

Games that are similar to my own money situation, I spend similar to myself (ie. if cash is thin I focus on what I need to buy next, and then save until I gt it, and spend a lot of time deciding WHAT to buy when I don't actually have money) but most games I end up having assloads of money, I spend it when I need to but leave the rest assuming I'll need to spend it some day.

I wish real life had that much money.