I think if you look at how you spend you might find a way to afford it . This will sound really cliched , but it ' s what I did when I moved out at 18 and came up against a money wall save every receipt , and at the end of the week tally up exactly what you spend and where . Keep track of everything . At the end of the month , combine those weekly tallies and then add in your monthly bills , whatever they happen to be . Now have a seat and then make two piles things you absolutely had to spend money on , like gas , rent , electric , etc go in one pile . In the other pile is everything else . And be honest with yourself with this second pile . A receipt for a coffee at the cart outside your work goes into this pile . Those lunches you had at McDonalds go here the receipts from the grocery store go into the first for now . Movie ticket stubs go here . You can also do this with a spreadsheet , but seeing two piles of actual paper might be eyeopening . Now go through the second pile and find enough stuff to total up what it is you want to buy , so some $ 40 worth . As you progress through next month , decide not to buy that pack of gum , that bag of chips , that coffee , that round of beer with the guys , or that movie you went to . Forty bucks should be pretty easy to come up with this way . If you like the process , do it again the next month as you ' re trimming away the unnecessary stuff and then compare the piles to what you had last month . Iterate on that as much as you like . You might very well find that you can also find other ways to economize . For example , you could use this same process to write down what you buy at the grocery store into two similar lists stuff you needed and stuff you wanted . Do you need bottled water ? Can you drink half as much soda , and not buy the microwave popcorn ? Is it better to buy stuff to pack a lunch to work instead of buying lunch at the local deli every day ? Like that . The notion is that little costs add up to larger amounts fairly quickly and by eliminating certain small expenditures with a critical eye over a long period can add up to money worth thinking about . And , at the risk of writing a novel , consider the entertainment value of a game like this as a ratio of what you get for what you give . It ' s cost is fixed $ 40 . If you only ever play it for just one hour , it ' s very expensive at $ 40 hour . If you play it for only 8 hours and then never touch it again , it ' s exactly as expensive as movie that cost $ 10 and lasted two hours . That is to say you ' re paying for entertainment at the same rate in that case . So if you pay that $ 40 and spend 100 hours being entertained , the cost per hour of entertainment is very , very low cheaper even than a used paperback book or a newspaper or probably even basic cable . Play 500 hours and the cost per hour is orders of magnitude less than anything you ' re likely to be entertained by . It ' s actually incredibly cheap entertainment at that point . Anyway , sorry to talk your ear off , but consider how you spend on smaller things you can cut out and you might find the game is a worthwhile thing to spend your limited money on .