You might not have seen this,but there is part in there about low lvl tasks, The exp and loot will suck, but they didn't forget use casual players that are in lvl 30's hell completely:)

Dude this computation of yours is lacking, and I think the others have pointed it out to you. But I will add mine. Before EQ, I was buying at least one video game a month for one of my systems. Lets say 50$, not including the machines themselves, or the memory cards or any of that stuff. thats 600$ a year, and I am coming up on 3 years, which is 1800$ saved not buying a game which I will spend about 40 hours on(for which I play at least twice that much on EQ) and then once I am done throwing it in a closet and never playing it again once I have "beaten it". I have always said EQ was a better buy, and with a constant changing scenery, the ability to play different types of classes/races and the evolving story line, you cannot even begin to compare the two.

$900 over 5 years and your complaining?

You do realize that all things considered, since you can play for as long as you want as long as your account is up to date your more than getting your monies worth.

Lets look at another common form of entertainment - movies - rentals and in the theater.

There are 52 weeks in a year - so in 5 years thats 260 weeks.

If you rented a the movie or video game every weekend - We'll say on average you'll spend about $5.00 a movie.
$5.00 x 260 weeks = $1,300.00 in 5 years. (and if you watched movies, you would get about 390 hours of enjoyment unless you watched the movies twice.)

If you went to the movies, on average you'll spend $7.50 for tickets (assuming you made it to matenee once in a while) and $4.00 for at least a soda.

260 weeks x $13.50 = $3,510.00

Now this isn't saying that you should only play EQ for your entertainment, rather its saying that EQ is a pretty decent deal.

If you play on average 10 hours a week (or 2,600 hours in 5 years) and you paid about $950 (I'll up it a bit) then your paying $0.37 an hour to play...

and you can save even more money if you had bought your subscription for a 6 month span instead of 1 month.