Lots - but it's still a lot cheaper than 40k

I'm pretty sure I've spent more on X-wing than I ever did on 40k + WHFB combined.

Heck like a few, my signature is out of date. I've spent a lot, but I rationalize it cause A. Star Wars B. If I ever get out of it, I'll be making money. The sheer fact that the dice I have go for upwards of 250 bucks, let alone all the rest of the alt arts, acrylics, and medals I think I've done pretty good for myself. Only things I'm missing is national/world's stuff.

Former 40k player here I'd have to spend £150 for a few units but that's two waves of x-wing.

My mate Dave does airsoft and he's spending £700 on toy guns so I don't feel so bad about what I spend on toy ships.

I've been playing for almost two years, and have probably around the £1000-£1250 mark on X-Wing, including most of the FFG models, gaming mats, carry cases, some third party models...

I try to fund my purchases through sales of other *cough*GW*cough* models and games via eBay - although I'd imagine that my sales probably account for about 1/3 to 1/2 of my spend at best.

I try not to think about it too much.

Especially given that, people that spend thousands of dollars on spaceship toys...probably not as grown-up as they want people to think they are.

You kinda have to be grown to spend that much $$$...and call anything your stuff.

MINE!

I earned it too.

I have spent enough and I rationalize it because I can.

To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

in 2 years I've spent around £1200 in total - that's around £12 a week - less than the price of a round of drinks in my FLBS

Currently circa £100 or so, but half of that was in the form of presents. That climbed by another £30 a couple of days ago after I apparently mistook the "add to wishlist" button with the "one click order" button on Amazon when looking at a playmat...

I suspect this total will rapidly climb when I manage to get any of my friends interested, and/or I find a local club to play with...

Currently circa £100 or so, but half of that was in the form of presents. That climbed by another £30 a couple of days ago after I apparently mistook the "add to wishlist" button with the "one click order" button on Amazon when looking at a playmat...

I suspect this total will rapidly climb when I manage to get any of my friends interested, and/or I find a local club to play with...

Where abouts are you?

Ok I just bought a raider so add £55 to that.

I am going to sell half the Tie advance titles though hopefully make some back.

Like literally between these two posts.

Stroud in Gloucestershire, UK. Rodafowa helpfully pointed me towards the UK and Ireland Facebook group, which may turn up some leads for local groups. Our problem is a total lack of FLGSs anywhere nearby...

Out of pocket, I have no idea maybe $200-$400. I use a lot of reward points from various credit cards to purchase a lot of things. Also, I don't go nuts and buy 6 of everything.

As I have posted a few times here, I spend vastly more money on my son's youth sports than X-Wing. I probably have $3000 worth of baseball bats in my garage. That says nothing of the 5-gallon buckets of baseballs, 4-5 complete sets of catchers gear of various sizes, dozens of cleats, football helmets and pads (for a tournament team that you had to buy everything yourself), dozens of baseball bags, 2 bazillion whiffle balls and bats purchased throughout the years, more basketballs than I can shake a stick at, etc...

I am not an alcoholic, drug addict, or gambling addict, and I don't go to strip clubs, so there are a lot worse things I could be spending money on than X-Wing stuff. At least that is what I tell my wife when she gives me side-eye when I start talking geek.

Including gifts I've got 34 small, 6 large and both Rebel huge ships. I proudly support my FLGS so that amounts to;

510+180+150= E840,-

If I include tournaments and nights at the FLGS that's little over 1000,- in the past 18 months.

Spent around 1000€ in the past year. Mistakes were made

I don't regret it though, as I live in a DINK household and my wife is supportive of my plastic crack addiction.

Stroud in Gloucestershire, UK. Rodafowa helpfully pointed me towards the UK and Ireland Facebook group, which may turn up some leads for local groups. Our problem is a total lack of FLGSs anywhere nearby...

Yeah in the UK we are thin on the ground when it comes to flgs, maybe the death of GW will see them return.

Just getting started in the game, so around £100. Money I would have spent on Warhammer, but no more. Hugely enjoying a completely different experience. Should have done this years ago.

Funny, but the first thing that came to mind when I read this subject was, "Wow, how are you channeling my wife like that...?"

Jokes aside, I haven't totaled up how much I have spent to date, but (as my signature demonstrates) it's been a good chunk so far and although I'm close to having the collection I want for now, I don't doubt I will add another big chunk later down the line. I have also bought a few 3rd party bits that would need to be added in - a new Feldherr case at the weekend, as an example but that is, as my wife called it, "protecting my investment."

I don't really feel the need to justify or rationalize this because, even though it's been a fairly sizable investment in molded plastic it's still significantly cheaper than many other hobbies (the money a few of my pals spend on golf is staggering), it's also cheaper than many of the activities my kids will be into over the next 10-15 years (to say nothing of college!), and is a drop in the ocean compared to many of the other things that I spend more on each year - books, comics, video games, concert tickets, etc, etc.

Thankfully, my wife is very supportive and even encouraging in my hobbies as I provide well for the family and always, always put them first in everything I do

Yeah in the UK we are thin on the ground when it comes to flgs, maybe the death of GW will see them return.

Is GW actually dying? Or is that just wishful thinking on your part?

Yeah in the UK we are thin on the ground when it comes to flgs, maybe the death of GW will see them return.

Is GW actually dying? Or is that just wishful thinking on your part?

Their finances are public knowledge, they've lost 15.5 million in profit over the last two years in a sector that's both healthy and growing.

The release age of sigmar limited edition books and two months on they haven't managed to sell them all and they only printed 2000 copies usually those go in hours or days at most but the reaction to the old world's death has angered so many they have wholesale rejected the new game.

In comparison kings of war second edition has completely sold out on its first day, people are leaving GW behind big style.

They've frozen staff wages even though they are still in the black as punishment for not selling enough, but really how are you supposed to run an entire shop with only one staff member and convince a parent £500 is a reasonable amount to start his kid playing 40k.

This week they've released a winged sigmarine for £48, it's not made of gold just plastic only twice the size of regular infantry, the price increases are pants on head insane.

Anyone on its own is meaningless but together it's a stark picture, they've alienated so many gamers with poor rules and high prices that they've reached a tipping point more people leave them behind than start, they constantly raise prices to compensate but even that's no longer enough.

Someone on warseer did the maths and to build the recommended 100 model sigmarines army would cost $1,163.50(that's just models not glue or paints), would you start x-wing if that was the initial outlay?

Yeah I've spent a few hundred over two years on x-wing but that's world's apart from £760 to do a single army for AoS.

It's a slow painful demise but it's undeniable they are in their deaththrows.

The release age of sigmar limited edition books and two months on they haven't managed to sell them all and they only printed 2000 copies usually those go in hours or days at most but the reaction to the old world's death has angered so many they have wholesale rejected the new game.

Whoa what? I need to catch up on Warhammer fantasy news apparently.

Don't know exactly how much I've spent, though I'm certainly not the biggest X-wing consumer. One of each expansion is usually enough for me.

As for justification, that's a simple one, it's not Warhammer. No matter how much X-wing stuff I buy, it will never amount to all the money I've poured into Games Workshop related crap and since I've been playing these types of games for the last 20 years, that amounts to quite a lot of cash.

I have no idea, but plenty. My collection is overtaking my ability to store it.

Xwing is a luxury. It is a hobby I enjoy. It is not a necessity. I have enough disposable income to enjoy it so I do. I don't feel upset by someone asking me to rationalize it.

Usually, when we are rationalizing something, we are trying to excuse a behavior or habit that we know to be wrong or destructive, but we are trying to engineer a justification for it anyway, so that we can keep doing that thing which we really already understand we should not be doing. I think any hobby can become addictive and all consuming, but it does not have to be.

So, unless the hobby has become harmful or destructive to you, rationalization is not required.

If Xwing is consuming to much of your time or money, then maybe it's time to step away. If you can meet all of your financial obligations and still spend money on something you enjoy that is not harmful to you or others, I don't see the need to rationalize.

If you know you are spending more than you can afford, and you are trying to rationalize buying that snazzy new raider instead, then it might be time for PCA (Plastic cracks anonymous )

Hi. my name is darthfish and it's been 2 days since I bought any plastic crack

Yeah in the UK we are thin on the ground when it comes to flgs, maybe the death of GW will see them return.

Is GW actually dying? Or is that just wishful thinking on your part?

Their finances are public knowledge, they've lost 15.5 million in profit over the last two years in a sector that's both healthy and growing.

The release age of sigmar limited edition books and two months on they haven't managed to sell them all and they only printed 2000 copies usually those go in hours or days at most but the reaction to the old world's death has angered so many they have wholesale rejected the new game.

In comparison kings of war second edition has completely sold out on its first day, people are leaving GW behind big style.

They've frozen staff wages even though they are still in the black as punishment for not selling enough, but really how are you supposed to run an entire shop with only one staff member and convince a parent £500 is a reasonable amount to start his kid playing 40k.

This week they've released a winged sigmarine for £48, it's not made of gold just plastic only twice the size of regular infantry, the price increases are pants on head insane.

Anyone on its own is meaningless but together it's a stark picture, they've alienated so many gamers with poor rules and high prices that they've reached a tipping point more people leave them behind than start, they constantly raise prices to compensate but even that's no longer enough.

Someone on warseer did the maths and to build the recommended 100 model sigmarines army would cost $1,163.50(that's just models not glue or paints), would you start x-wing if that was the initial outlay?

Yeah I've spent a few hundred over two years on x-wing but that's world's apart from £760 to do a single army for AoS.

It's a slow painful demise but it's undeniable they are in their deaththrows.

Age of Sigmar is a bloody joke and a truly bad one at that. And I for one couldn't be happier that it seems to be failing badly. It just might bring some positive changes, however unlikely that is.

Sadly typical GW procedure is to kill off a game when it fails to meet their expectations.

If AoS tanks they'll ditch it and fantasy and just make 40k until even that can't sustain them.