I can't believe people actually took that post seriously.

Cocosnake literally has maxes and VHs on almost all his gear. Trust me he's loaded.

Unfortunately being the richest implies you're probably not the most intelligent.

Paying off college loans? Nope, let's spend money on a Java game!

This is the BEST comment i ever see!

since he used all that crowns and ce to roll UVs on his items. As i recall, he spent 700US dollars trying to roll vh ctr on his shadow bomb.

But again, its all relative. We dont' know his real financial situation, but if someone WAS a multi-millionaire, 9000 dollars wouldn't be much money at all to spend on a game, no matter how trivial it is.

But again, its all relative. We dont' know his real financial situation, but if someone WAS a multi-millionaire, 9000 dollars wouldn't be much money at all to spend on a game, no matter how trivial it is.

Yup, people actually condemning someone for how they choose to spend their money is sad really, especially when they have no idea how much that money is worth relative to said person's income.

Debatable, I think. There comes a point where a person should be able to stop and think about what constitutes excessive spending, how necessary the things being achieved with the money are, and what better purpose in the world that money might otherwise be able to fulfill.

I'm actually curious now as to what Cocosnake does for a living to be able to have that much disposable income, and the time to play an MMORPG. My money is on heir to a Saudi oil empire, or a Chinese investor riding out the economic boom. Hopefully he'll read this and enlighten us.

Well if Coco wants to spend thousands of dollars on a free to play non-competitive cartoony MMO, then so be it, doesn't harm anybody. (Other than sniggering at Coco behind his/her back) Also, LOL at people trying to play internet detective trying to figure out what He/She earns (or their family) I may own a Lambo and a nice beach front property but just not flex my wealth in game. I also maybe a fat, balding, 47 year old Los Zeta's gangbanger etc.
See where I'm getting at?

You people think he or she is rich?

Managing money is a skill. If you give $10,000,000+ to some random person, guess what statistics show happens to them?

Yeah, they go broke.

Now completely depending on how much they spend, there is a point where it shows they obviously do not know how to manage money. This indicates their spending comes from something else besides wealth... typically, it is a gambling addiction in this game. Mai proff: "he spent 700US dollars trying to roll vh ctr on his shadow bomb."

That just screams at me: Gambling addiction! Gambling addiction!

I'm sorry, but its all relative. In fact, as someone who considers himself middle class give or take, i find it hilarious when someone bemoans someone else for spending 20 bucks on this game, rather than spending 25-30 grinding in game for it. !?!?!?!?! At what point does your time become more valuable than your money? At what point do you stop and think "i could grind 25 hours for 7500 ce doing vana runs.....or i could put in an extra hour at work and come home and buy 7500 ce and keep on moving!"

This is what led to me spending about 150 dollars on the game for pawn and I both. And i would have been happy to spend a little more as time went on had we not proved so sufficient at turning ce into more ce. and then turning more ce into more ce. So it was only through making money in game that i stopped purchasing ce to play the game.

But really, at a certain point, its worth spending a little money to skip some of the monotony, some of the grinding, and enjoying the limited hours of enjoyment the game has to offer, and doing so with the things you want to have!!! Better to work an extra hour or two at work, buy ce, buy a vh ctr whatever, and then enjoy playing the limited replay value the game has while mashing with your vh ctr weapon.

IMO, if (IF) cocosnake has stacks of money, and no financial worries in the world, it'd be idiotic to grind 1000 hours at getting a full set of vh ctr alchemers (if thats what he wanted) rather than just buying ce/crowns and rolling for them.

all relative.

Could you all just stop caring about this? I know people who have dropped $40,000 on fb games this is just a stupid topic.

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don't be surprised, I know someone who is a young businessman and is having a net profit of $2k/month (converted from my country's currency, it's quite a lot in my country)
fortunately, he manages his money well.

but if we think of it, he can just use his 4 months profits and spend almost like coco.

Fishace is clearly the richest. /endthread

Whether he actually spend $9,000 on this game or not, that type of number on a silly video game is ridiculous. If his parents have recently won millions from the lottery, I understand, my spending limit would be made to a million dollars and I can float in trip maxes and twilight auras on fencing jackets that I vendor for fun. But all aside, if you actually paid 9 grand on this game, you need to stop. Willing to look at your WTS thread if you're quitting, I never recall seeing you in haven, so I dont know what kind of pieces you have.

I have multiple accounts for when I ht the max limit. I'm sure others, and Coco, do too.

I was expecting someone to make that argument. I had even considered making a counter-argument preemptively at the risk of sounding verbose. However, I really thought people would have some sense in drawing a line of distinction between normal people spending a reasonable amount of money on something practical like a computer, and spending a proportionally absurd figure on something as trivial as UVs in a not even that popular MMORPG. If you really do need the difference between reasonable and excessive pointed out to you, then consider a $1000 PC computer and a $50000 PC computer (gold plated with 22" rims ofc).

The different between reasonable and absurd is entirely something drawn arbitrarily in our minds, there's no solid agreeable point at which the personal value a person feels something is worth goes from being a reasonable amount of money to something absurd, and once again it's entirely relative to a huge variety of factors. Whilst most people probably would agree that 9k on a game like Spiral Knights is a pretty excessive figure, that doesn't mean that certain people won't (Coco evidently doesn't) and the implication that everyone of this opinion should loudly and obnoxiously judge him for it isn't something I think any rational human being can advocate as anything less than far more self-serving than how someone spends their finances.

Let's put it another way, let's say for the sake of argument that 9k is an objectively absurd figure. Whom has coco harmed by doing this precisely? And if the answer you come up with is "Only himself, but by assuming everyone should be held to my own moral standards he's indirectly responsible for the deaths of many starving African children" then fine, you're certainly entitled to believe such. But the way in which people in the three threads on this subject are going out of their way to insult, demean and otherwise act superior to someone based on the fact they disagree with the way they harmlessly spend their money is completely pathetic.

Well, he said his first language was Chinese, right? So I'm going with high-rankng government official or lucrative businessman.

If the game was completely F2P, they would have found a new way to run it, or yes shut it down (more likely).

I don't think it is wrong that people spend money on it, it is their choice, but wasting money on it...... In all honesty, if you have nothing better to spend $9000 you have a pretty sad life.
With $9000 you could buy something useful, improve your lifestyle, whatever. Instead, you can now write "I have good items in Spiral Knights" on your CV...... I mean come on, that really is not going to impress anyone.

I'm not going to cry if they release more P2P missions, I just won't buy them, same as before, and watch everyone else moan.

The developers marketed it as F2P, so you can hardly complain because I am F2P.

it was actually 9,000 yen

On the internet jokes are better when people take them seriously.

@ the people who are talking down about Coco and the amount of money he spent on this name.
I hope u guys realize that you guys are just insecure about your own lil economic status, if you arent, then there is no DAM reason for u to comment on how someone else spends his money.. seriously WTF.
I dont wana go into detail and explain, the sentence above should explain how it prolly is.

Erridunno, I know, that comment was only aimed at the "haters" who are talking down about the rich players. This thread itself is fine, only the players who have nothing better to do than judging others without knowing their background, that bothers me.