[-MNG-] M0bius_One Players 214 posts 4,292 battles Report post #1 Posted December 16, 2019 2 14 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[LADA] Gvozdika [LADA] Players 975 posts 10,423 battles Report post #2 Posted December 16, 2019 Move over - for the price of one Puerto Rico - you can buy a fully functioning.... Spoiler This WILL be attainable within the next 30 days. Capable of being obtained by healthy and non-healthy players alike. No microtransactions. No grind. Just a killer spin cycle. Buy a few of these bad boys and you can take the world of Laundrettes by storm. Currently waiting for a game to update - I need to get out more. NEW GAME ANYONE? Post what you could buy for the price of a pixel ship? 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[BYOB] Aragathor Players 7,047 posts 32,333 battles Report post #3 Posted December 16, 2019 19 minutes ago, Gvozdika said: Post what you could buy for the price of a pixel ship? 140cmx200cm morgedal ikea mattress in either firm or soft. Haven't slept that well in ages. 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
_ramrus_ Weekend Tester, In AlfaTesters 618 posts 10,023 battles Report post #4 Posted December 16, 2019 Quote Just buy it: Why Puerto Rico is worth the money By Spreadsheet, December 13 2019 ... However, what these price-panicked pundits don't understand is that there's value in being an early adopter. And there's a cost to either delaying your purchase or getting an older-generation product so you can save money. While we don't have final benchmark results, the new features and enhanced performance of the Puerto Rico makes it worth buying now, even at sky-high prices. ... When you’re among the first to purchase a new premium ship like Puerto Rico, you take the risk that the technology won't work as well as advertised right away, that you won't find a ton of maps that support its special features and that the price will drop, making you feel like you wasted your money. However, when you pay a premium for cutting-edge components, you're also buying time, time to enjoy experiences. ... Life is short. How many months or years do you want to wait to enjoy a new experience? You can sit around twiddling your thumbs and hoping that Puerto Rico gets cheaper, or you can enter the world of whaling and high-cost, premium gaming experience today and never look back. When you die and your whole life flashes before your eyes, how much of it do you want to not be pixel ships? ... If you can possibly afford Puerto Rico -- even if it's not the most expensive model -- there's plenty of reasons to pull the trigger now. The time you spend waiting and complaining about it being overpriced is time you could be gaming with the most realistic user experience available. 10 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[TAYTO] ThePopesHolyFinger Players 1,101 posts 15,043 battles Report post #5 Posted December 16, 2019 23 minutes ago, Gvozdika said: NEW GAME ANYONE? Post what you could buy for the price of a pixel ship? I have bought roadworthy cars for less. I could decorate my flat for less (might just do that since I'm not going to bother with PR) There are so many things you could do with that sort of money. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[-TPF-] invicta2012 Players 6,382 posts 26,856 battles Report post #6 Posted December 16, 2019 £200? Well, let's see. That's my cat (£75, donation when adopting a large ginger cat from Battersea: https://www.battersea.org.uk/cats/cat-rehoming-gallery), a bottle of my favourite whisky (Clynelish, £40), tickets to take the family to the Cinema over Christmas (£50), and £30 to a charity of choice - https://www.crisis.org.uk. There may even be some cash left for a Laarge Laaaaate (being from the West of England, I can't order this without turning into a Pirate) and some KFC for the junk-food obsessed cat Battersea palmed off onto me.... 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[SVX] albin322 Players 1,850 posts 20,871 battles Report post #7 Posted December 16, 2019 well considering you can buy a single ticket from sweden to barcelona/spain for 10 euros i could bring 8 people to barcelona for the price of 3 puertorico boosters ! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
250swb Players 628 posts 2,129 battles Report post #8 Posted December 16, 2019 It does put it into perspective that instead of funding a Puerto Rico you could adopt a hissing scratching beast that curls up on your lap and loves you all its life, and I'm not talking about a wife, they just hiss. 8 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[LADA] Gvozdika [LADA] Players 975 posts 10,423 battles Report post #9 Posted December 16, 2019 It will also buy 56 litres of Heinz ketchup - or 100 plus litres of unbranded tomato sauce. Or my personal favourite - 480 kg of spaghetti. Just under half a tonne of pasta. Being more practical - you could buy a notebook or min-spec laptop - if being crushed by spaghetti / drowning in ketchup doesn't take your fancy. Alternatively up to eight AAA game titles for PC/console. The semi-serious aside to all this is just how much WG are asking for a single ship. How the hell did we get to the stage of selling one premium for triple figures? 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[TNDF] KratosTheUnforgiving Players 1,010 posts Report post #10 Posted December 16, 2019 I have an alternative, keep the computer off and spend time with family and friends. A mass boycott of WG over christmas would send a clear message, like it does in sport, but we all know, we just have to play. 4 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[XTREM] Miragetank90 Players 2,626 posts 18,708 battles Report post #11 Posted December 16, 2019 1 hour ago, Gvozdika said: NEW GAME ANYONE? Post what you could buy for the price of a pixel ship? I'm a guitarist, but I'd buy a bass. I want a bass. I could get a good bass, a decent bass amp, and cabling all for the price of a Puerto Rico, with money to spare. I've been really happy with Cort products in the past. I may just buy from Cort again. Even their cheapest gear boasts high quality, durability and craftsmanship. Their gear lasts and sounds great. I had a Cort M200 way back when(Costs less than Puerto Rico ) and she was great. An inexpensive guitar, but, amazingly, she lasted for years. I played her like crazy and she took all kinds of abuse in foreign lands... it was great man. That was a decade ago and she would still be growling up a storm if she hadn't broken her neck while I was bringing her home for the last time . Damn airline! My own repairs have never held, and they don't make M200s anymore. That aside, she holds a special place in my heart... I need to take her to a Luthier, which unfortunately does not exist in the Seychelles. Anyway, little story over... A Cort Bass Not necessarily what I'll be buying, but you get the idea. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[R7S] lovelacebeer Players 4,158 posts 25,226 battles Report post #12 Posted December 16, 2019 Well with the £200 I save not buying the PR, I can happily afford the Savoys Christmas afternoon tea for two, a far more satisfying experience over all. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[-MNG-] M0bius_One Players 214 posts 4,292 battles Report post #13 Posted December 16, 2019 Alternatively, you can buy every single game in the Ace Combat series for the price of Puerto Rico and experience one of the most soulful, well-designed gaming series ever made. (I wish World of Warplanes was actually good, there's a serious lack of good Multiplayer flight games that aren't hard sims like DCS.) 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[TACHA] DeviousDave02 [TACHA] Players 679 posts 3,786 battles Report post #14 Posted December 16, 2019 Steel Battalion heavy armor controller... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Steel-Battalion-40-button-controller/dp/B000083XHM That's: 2 control sticks/flight sticks with triggers and PoV hatswitch 40 buttons and toggles (including glass covered eject button) Throttle lever accelerate, break and clutch peddles. And still have money left over to buy an adapter to allow me to connect it to a PC and then match all them buttons to whatever key binds I so choose allowing for it to be used in pretty much any game I so desire (unlike a certain pixel ship that is limited to one game of dubious standing) 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[NAN0] HaachamaShipping Players 8,474 posts 10,052 battles Report post #15 Posted December 17, 2019 You could likely blow it all for one night at an adult establishment, have far more fun grinding experiences and even if it seems like a giant waste, at least you got something, not wait a month to lose it all. All of this with the honesty that they'll advertise it from the very start that you'll spend money to get f***ed. Honestly, though, saving it (or most of it) might just be for the best. Spending time with family and/or friends instead of slaving away in randoms might not even cost anything, yet still is priceless. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[BONUS] Hedgehog1963 [BONUS] Beta Tester 3,211 posts 14,951 battles Report post #16 Posted December 17, 2019 2 hours ago, DB2212 said: I have bought roadworthy cars for less. I could decorate my flat for less (might just do that since I'm not going to bother with PR) There are so many things you could do with that sort of money. Me too. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[DSNF] SamuraiShakaViking Players 103 posts 5,875 battles Report post #17 Posted December 17, 2019 Laughter is the best medicine.. Since the Puerto rico- gate heist is 'no laughing matter, but also a 'laughable '' disappointing deception, humour is good alternative to the grind! so, since whale hunting is banned by international law.. wows , you may not hunt whales Besides, Russia is a oil producer anyway! but if whales can afford the Puerto Rico, is WoWs considering a whaling ship class? And a Greenpeace sea Shepherd faction? We should have a Moby [edited] campaign!?! A Hemingway captain? , the old man and his fish Anyway, yeah, $300 can get you a real week safari in (South) Africa, including whale watching! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[CHAR] Phayk Players 159 posts 2,578 battles Report post #18 Posted December 17, 2019 Honestly, if you contemplate buying the Puerto Rico for $$$, please reconsider and rather go here https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/ to put the money to actual good use. That way WG aren't reaffirmed in their shitty behaviour AND you can do something nice. Win-Win. Or just save the money or invest it. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[BODEM] FukushuNL Players 1,235 posts 8,476 battles Report post #19 Posted December 17, 2019 4 hours ago, Mr_Wolfclaw said: I have an alternative, keep the computer off and spend time with family and friends. A mass boycott of WG over christmas would send a clear message, like it does in sport, but we all know, we just have to play. This is the real answer I think. And then most importantly spend the time with your family and friends. And in your free time you can send pictures of middlefingers (with or without a christmas head on top) to WG as a thank you :) But priority here is friends and family. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[NECRO] MementoMori_6030 [NECRO] Players 6,381 posts Report post #20 Posted December 17, 2019 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
anonym_mlJIAFnOwMVb Players 543 posts Report post #21 Posted December 17, 2019 4 hours ago, DeviousDave02 said: Steel Battalion heavy armor controller... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Steel-Battalion-40-button-controller/dp/B000083XHM That's: 2 control sticks/flight sticks with triggers and PoV hatswitch 40 buttons and toggles (including glass covered eject button) Throttle lever accelerate, break and clutch peddles. And still have money left over to buy an adapter to allow me to connect it to a PC and then match all them buttons to whatever key binds I so choose allowing for it to be used in pretty much any game I so desire (unlike a certain pixel ship that is limited to one game of dubious standing) god i miss that game 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[HPF] Ocsimano18 Players 3,476 posts 13,949 battles Report post #22 Posted December 17, 2019 Yamaha entry level keyboard: 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RenamedUser_92906789 Players 5,828 posts Report post #23 Posted December 17, 2019 @Ocsimano18 Similar, but a bit different (around 200 EUR) - Maschine Micro MK3 OR.... I can buy myself couple of years of premium account and let it run out, like it ran out last year when I still had premium account. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
havaduck ∞ Players 2,989 posts 11,824 battles Report post #24 Posted December 17, 2019 5 minutes ago, nambr9 said: @Ocsimano18 Similar, but a bit different :) Cant promise you tough how many of those are obtainable for the price of 1 PR of if even any are for sale. €: Reminds me of that think Linkin Park uses when playing Numb - and others ofc. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RenamedUser_92906789 Players 5,828 posts Report post #25 Posted December 17, 2019 4 minutes ago, havaduck said: Cant promise you tough how many of those are obtainable for the price of 1 PR of if even any are for sale. How am I not surprised :D I was about to show mine in the amount in refeer, but WG could take it as morally questionable :) 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
