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This is a personal tally/story for fun and sharing, but by all means add yours! I got sold on LBP2 when people posted beta videos on Youtube. Until then I told myself I would get around to playing it, but "meh". Now it seems like ♪ Everything I doooooo ♪ I do for LBP2 ♪　(cue the Bryan Adams karaoke!) ----------------------------- So. The rundown. ----------------------------- I live in Japan. Australians love to brag, but Japan gives them a run for their money when it comes to expensive games. LBP2 cost me 9800 yen ($117 USD). At first. Anyway. I got addicted in a hurry. Not to creating, even. I just loved collecting stuff in the story levels. Of course, I convinced myself that the only way to create proper was to have all LBP1 materials too. So without having experienced much of LBP2 online, or any of create mode, I bought LBP1. Call it an expansion pack to LBP2. Or, you know. DLC on disc. That's what I considered it. LBP1 cost me another 10,000 yen ($120 USD). Then, of course, I got hooked on trophies. I got the Platinum for both games. Then knew I could get to 100% trophies with LBP1, if I got the DLC. So, there was that. The thing is, Japan again. Procuring a $50 US-tied PSN card offline, the only way I could do it, cost 7200 yen ($85 USD). Within a few days I'd spent the whole card on various LBP1/LBP2 DLC. For $50 worth of stuff. That I never even use to create! I just liked collecting. It was around this time I admitted I had an addiction, and went cold turkey. For a while. Then, LBP2 started dropping delicious new DLC. With trophies. Oh god. OH GOD! Yesterday, in a minor bit of compulsive shopping, I finally bought the Move pack. I didn't make it 24 hours without rushing to every game shop in Akihabara (Japan's electronics mecca) asking... BEGGING!... for a Move controller and a PS Eye. Which I told myself I would never get. Of all the overpriced trinkets related to anything, it seemed like the worst deal. Cost of the Move controller and PS Eye: 6200 yen ($76 USD). Including other stray bits of DLC I've purchased over time, I've spent an estimated 40,000 yen on this franchise. That's $480 USD. Of course, thanks to the Welcome Back program due to last year's hack, I also have 7 copies of LBP 1 and LBP PSP each. But if I'd never been involved in that, still: $480 USD for basically two games. Sheesh.

2012-08-28 14:18:00 Author: Unknown User

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well I find nothing wrong with having a hobby you care a lot about. just as long not absolutely all of your money goes in to it. and of course not all your time of day every day too. i mean even spending about 6 hours a day on a hobby should be alright long as you have the free time, but any more then that probably would not be good if it's all the time... Heh i know i myself buy almost all the DLC. also movepack was pretty easy for me since i got everything you need for it really cheap from ebay. *mew

2012-08-28 14:44:00 Author: Lord-Dreamerz Posts: 4261

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I almost feel sillier NOT playing the game nonstop for all the money spent. Heh heh. Oh well!

2012-08-28 16:14:00 Author: Unknown User

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I almost feel sillier NOT playing the game nonstop for all the money spent. Heh heh. Oh well! Well as long you are happy and your life is in order then it's all fine. i just know that sometimes if you spend to much time on a single hobby to often it can start to become less fun after a while and you'll start to rant a lot about things in the hobby. xD *mew

2012-08-28 16:25:00 Author: Lord-Dreamerz Posts: 4261

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It's been funny how I'd never seen the need for any PS3 peripheral hardware until LBP came along. First I had to buy the PS Eye, then a keyboard for communicating with others, now the Move controller! What's next??! Without LBP, this stuff would be pointless.

2012-08-28 22:17:00 Author: Liquid_Blood_ Posts: 116

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