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Old 08-31-2011, 10:50 PM   #32
Renatus
 
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Back in Wisconsin(thinking about invading the south)
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Frankly poor people buying video games is reasonable, because if you really think about it, virtual reality is a poor man's reality. It can be replayed a infinite number of times with no extra cost, and enables you to do things that would normally cost many times that of the game itself.

Lets take paintball for example 1200 paintballs for example can cost $30 and that doesn't even cover equipment costs. Whereas Call of duty modern Warfare has a used price now of $16 according to amazon, and that's a one time fee. There is also a $60 per year fee for use of xbox live, but again, that a whole year, compared to a limited number of rounds of paintball. If people played paintball half as much as people do video games, they would save many thousands of dollars by doing video games instead.
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