Chris's spending on iPhone games

[Watcher]

I think it is just that SimCity doesn't display cartoonish smiley people/animals for him to gawk at. Without that, the game can't feel "real" to him.

It's also that Sim City requires things like micromanagement and you know, acting like a mayor instead of a despotic King.

I'm still the mayor of CWCville. There is no elections

 

[Pikonic]

Does he still play the Simpsons game regularly? If he filled up his town, he could've very well gotten bored of it and moved on to something else to spend exorbitant amounts of on.

I don't know, but it'd make me slightly less disgusted if he was still playing the game than if he gave up on it and spent almost $1000 on something else.

It wouldn't be hard for OP to check, he knows if Sonichu has visited him.

 

[Uzumaki]

Does he still play the Simpsons game regularly? If he filled up his town, he could've very well gotten bored of it and moved on to something else to spend exorbitant amounts of on.

He had visited me this morning (it's what inspired me to start the thread), which means it's unlikely he will again until tomorrow. All signs point to "yes", though.

Edit: I'm on a weird sleep schedule right now, so my concept of "morning" is skewed.

Edit Edit: Turns out I posted this yesterday (me know things) so I guess he hasn't visited me today. Did I mention I was on a weird sleep schedule? My concept of "days" has become very theoretical.

Also: The game constantly comes out with new stuff for you to waste money on, so I can't see him ever abandoning it entirely.

 

[A-№1]

For $1000, Chris could clean his disgusting home, buy a gym year long pass/sneakers/shorts and pay for his car to be tuned-up and detailed.

or buy virtual Simpson characters who say one line each. Whatever.

A 10 minute shower with an old, inefficient shower head uses about 50 gallons. Most utilities charge about 1¢ per gallon for water + sewer, and it costs about 2¢ per gallon to heat it, depending on the utility. A bar of soap costs about $1.50. A 16fl. oz. bottle of shampoo about $5.

Add it all up, and a ten minute shower costs about $1.75, tops, and that's if you are a wasteful, inefficient schmuck.

But Chris has "better" uses for that $1.75.

For $1000 he could hire a really hot hooker. He could even make real, as opposed to hand drawn, porn with her and prove to the trolls once and for all that HE IS STRAIGHT YOU DAMN PINHEADS!

For $1000, think of all the clubs, groups, organizations, and meet-ups that charge a fee he could join.

…until he gets banned from them.

Groups that share his interests.

What interests? Most groups that share Chris' interests don't share his age bracket. Bronies are the only exception I can think of off the top of my head, and I don't think even they would tolerate him for long.

Groups where he could meet real live girls, and maybe date one of them.

I notice you didn't qualify that with "his age". I think the courts, if not their parents, would have something to say against Chris dating any jailbait girls who share his interests.

You know, like he's always complaining he wants to do.

I view Chris' complaints about not having a life the same way I view his complaints about not having money. He could have both money and a life if he simply stopped wasting them.

 

[QI 541]

What interests? Most groups that share Chris' interests don't share his age bracket. Bronies are the only exception I can think of off the top of my head, and I don't think even they would tolerate him for long.

Well, there's also gamers. Unfortunately, even Chris wouldn't be able to stand hanging around competitive gamers for long, and I don't think casual gamers form groups dedicated to playing video games.

 

[A-№1]

What interests? Most groups that share Chris' interests don't share his age bracket. Bronies are the only exception I can think of off the top of my head, and I don't think even they would tolerate him for long.

Well, there's also gamers. Unfortunately, even Chris wouldn't be able to stand hanging around competitive gamers for long, and I don't think casual gamers form groups dedicated to playing video games.

Gamers form groups based on the games they play, not just because they play games, and based on the games Chris plays, I think there would still be the age bracket problem.

 

[Descent]

He'll spend $1000 on what're basically GIFs and NPCs, but he wouldn't spend $2000 to get rid of the got dang ads that plagued his Cwckipedia and caused him so much stress.

 

[Fuzzy Wuzzy]

He'll spend $1000 on what're basically GIFs and NPCs, but he wouldn't spend $2000 to get rid of the got dang ads that plagued his Cwckipedia and caused him so much stress.

That's because he doesn't have $2000. The only time he'll have that much is when he has a job. He'd be surprised how much more money he get with a full time minimum wage job than his alone.

 

[Christ-Chan]

I think it is just that SimCity doesn't display cartoonish smiley people/animals for him to gawk at. Without that, the game can't feel "real" to him.

I'm not a gamer or anything, but I think most of those games are more... Well, gamey. Like, you have to keep your citizens happy and safe from natural disasters or whatever. There's a challenge to it, and pressure to succeed. The phone game seems to be entirely passive, you just dick around and there is no opposition, which means no stress. I think it's telling that's the kind of game he wastes so much of his time (and money) on.

 

[timtommy]

Also: The game constantly comes out with new stuff for you to waste money on, so I can't see him ever abandoning it entirely.

Very smart people spend a lot of their time designing apps so that people will spend money on them. Candy crush has gotten me.

Chris seems like an ideal mark for this. He is being trolled by app designers.

Also, he has a collectors/hoarders mentality. Having a "complete set" is important to him.

IMHO, the world of iTunes apps seems custom-made to get every last dollar out of someone like Chris.

 

[Anchuent Christory]

How can anyone enjoy that garbage? It looks about as stimulating as a coloring book.

Let me tell you about a man called Christian Weston Chandler.....

 

[MetroidJunkie]

Side note, is there seriously over $1,000 worth of DLC in just one phone game? And I thought that train simulator was bad.

 

[Ron_Swanson]

Am I reading this correctly? Did he spend $1000 buying Simpsons clip art for this "game"?

At first I thought you couldn't be right and that an amount in the thousands would be too high, but now I think you're correct, my post about this in June may be relevant:

He accepted me in the Simpsons "tapped out" game in iOS, so if his behavior in there is any indication, he's going through quite a bit of cash. I don't know how cash savvy is Chris but according to this page, let's say a 'donut' (premium cash unit) is $0.04 if Chris went nuts and spent $100 at once.

Mount Carl there is 120 donuts. THe Springfield sign is 170! donuts. The escalator can be bought with grinded in-game cash, but it's purposefully a waste of money for spergs to aim for, costs like 10000000 or so. Which is sad because Chris has all of the 1million+ grindable items too, which shows how much he plays this game, or that he's using donuts to buy in-game cash which would be all sorts of retarded because 100 donuts give you something like 1000 in game cash.

The skyscraper in front is one of those million dollar grindables, but the rest is all paid stuff. The purple mountain/lair is 200! donuts.

you know what, fuck it, look at the other screencaps, he's bought every single premium item and character.

you could buy one of these 'snake stones' to get more snakes to whack in a limited time thing. Each stone was like 60 donuts.

Love quest® (Also an example of how his spergy mind makes him get every possible item you can get)

Fortunately in this page it's also detailed how much you would need to own all the premium items (which is fairly recent), the answer is 2,547 donuts, which at $0.04 is about $100, but the $99 donut package in the store nets you only 2400 donuts, and Chris has bought multiples of a lot of stuff. So yeah, maybe he allows himself to spend about $100 per app/mobile game?

Note the bolded part at the end. That was in June, ever since, every few months more stuff to buy has come out, and Chris has obsessively bought it all, though I have noticed that sometimes he does have to wait until the tugboat arrives to get his fill of the new paid unlockables. It would depend on how he was buying 'donuts', the in-game money for the unlockables, ironically if he was spending $100 at a time, each time, he'd get more bang for his buck, but Chris strikes me as the kind of person to buy the worst deal just because it's the cheapest (where each donut comes close to a dollar, I think).

Also EA figured out they could make you pay all over for a new paint of coat on the same mechanic, and now you can have parallel to your town in your game a 'Krustyland' which you can't really micromanage like you would in Zoo Tycoon, for example, it's just the same basic tapping game as the original, you just now get to place rides and stuff. And guess who already has all the paid decorations, rides and extra (useless) characters? yeah.

 

[Uzumaki]

Am I reading this correctly? Did he spend $1000 buying Simpsons clip art for this "game"?

At first I thought you couldn't be right and that an amount in the thousands would be too high, but now I think you're correct, my post about this in June may be relevant:

Wow, I must have missed that thread. Good stuff.

I wonder if Chris realizes how many of his Tapped Out friends are trolls. I can't imagine anyone added him except the people who read that facebook plea, and we all know who did that.

P.S. he still hasn't shown up in my town since I posted this, but he's still on my friends list.

 

[MetroidJunkie]

With how wasteful with money Chris is, making an indie game on phone that markets to him would actually seem like a viable business move, especially since there are probably people just like him who spend way too much on games like these. The only real DLC I've ever bought came with the games in bundle sales on Steam and the most I ever paid for one of those was $6.24 for the Deluxe Edition of Oblivion. Even came with the crappy horse armor.

 

[Ron_Swanson]

It cracks me up that he added all of us, especially with how easy it is to find other people to add. (Not that adding people is all that essential to the game or even fun) He must be really hard up for 'friends' even online, to add us. He probably gets a kick of how lesser our towns are (and mine will always be, since I don't spend money on the game at all)

He hadn't played in a while, it seems, but he was around for me a couple days ago. I find if funny that when he 'visits your town' he -always- vandalizes your buildings, (which is a legit option) even if it doesn't really harm you and even in fact slightly affects his ratings.

 

[Uzumaki]

With how wasteful with money Chris is, making an indie game on phone that markets to him would actually seem like a viable business move, especially since there are probably people just like him who spend way too much on games like these. The only real DLC I've ever bought came with the games in bundle sales on Steam and the most I ever paid for one of those was $6.24 for the Deluxe Edition of Oblivion.

This isn't even DLC. You don't download it (it's already there) and it stretches the word "content" to gossamer thinness. The greatest living poets and literary scholars are currently hard at work trying to come up with a word that describes what the shit you buy in these games is, but at current our language lacks the power to properly describe it.

He hadn't played in a while, it seems, but he was around for me a couple days ago. I find if funny that when he 'visits your town' he -always- vandalizes your buildings, (which is a legit option) even if it doesn't really harm you and even in fact slightly affects his ratings.

I think it hurts your clean rating or whatever until you tap it away. But yeah, he's a perennial vandal.

He hasn't been to my town but I went to his and it seems he's put up Christmas Trees everywhere, so he's logged on since I took the screenshots at the very least.

 

[MetroidJunkie]

This isn't even DLC. You don't download it (it's already there) and it stretches the word "content" to gossamer thinness. The greatest living poets and literary scholars are currently hard at work trying to come up with a word that describes what the shit you buy in these games is, but at current our language lacks the power to properly describe it.

How about On-Disc DLC? That seems to describe crap you buy that's already in the game.

 

[Ahffline]

I'm not surprised that Chris burns through cash on social games, with his hoarding and impulse control issues.

I play some casual games online, and I occasionally buy things for them, but to me it's no different than renting movies or buying expensive premium coffees. At least with digital game purchases, I get to enjoy them for as long as the game is running. With movie rentals, I can only watch the film for a set period of time, and with premium coffee, it literally is a case of pissing money away.

 

[Anchuent Christory]

He hadn't played in a while, it seems, but he was around for me a couple days ago. I find if funny that when he 'visits your town' he -always- vandalizes your buildings, (which is a legit option) even if it doesn't really harm you and even in fact slightly affects his ratings.

Knowing Chris, he genuinely thinks he's having the last laugh by doing this. This is the man who feels that creating an effigy of you in Soul Calibur and beating it up is some sort of deadly insult, so he'll gladly accept you as a friend if he suspects you're a troll just to vandalise your buildings. He can't fathom that nobody else puts the sort of value into trivial things that he does.