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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
See for me in 2003, the thought of paying a monthly fee for a game was unbelievable. I couldn't imagine having to use a credit and use it on the internet to pay for a game it just broke my mind. How could you pay monthly for a game when you just buy it in cash once?

Now look where we are.
gpt
Yeah, I originally wanted my parents to get me a subscription for like..chores or something (this is middle school me talking) but I got a lil older and realized "Oh yeah, we're broke AF"

Then I got a job and thought 15/mo sucked for a sub so I didn't play for a terribly long time. I *did* play enough to have some solid WoW memories in the tail end of BC and WotLK so for at least a year I had it before quitting