I'm saving 90% of all the money I make that's not already allocated to aces high, so I can pay my way through college if I have to. I'm trying to get a scholership, but I'm planning without it so I won't have too many nasty suprises. Since I may be taking a break, I thought it would be cool if HTC could pause, deactivate, or suspend an account, and reactivate it later. Maybe save the $180 a year.
And I could care less about perks, since I can easily earn the GV perks (about all I use) needed to use the M4A3 and the odd tiger without watching too closely.
I can appreciate saving money, especially for school (Hope you do well!), but it's 50 cents a day. You can't buy a soda (typically) for 50 cents anymore. My college sold em for $1.25 as an example, or $450 a year. $180 a year sounds good in comparison. But we must add add in anything you do for fun to get a true picture.
If you were to go out drinking say.. twice a month at a bar for a total of say 8 hours (4 hrs per visit), then you'd spend on average (I used mine and my friends alchohol consumption as my baseline. I rarely ever drink) $20 a trip, or $480 yearly. Let's say you don't drink, but you do smoke cigarettes. Let's be ultra conservative and say you smoke half a pack a day. Let's also assume you live in a great state where it's not $7 or more dollars a pack, and it's just $5.00 a pack (is what I can get them for in VA, am in MD), well, that would be $5*14days (we'll even use a 28 day month) then $70*12mo= $840 a month of nicotine. Other smokables would be higher.
But there are alot of good souls who don't do any of that. Let's say you just get NetFlix or something along that line. 2 DVDs at a crack is about 15 dollars, and 3 is about 18. There's AH right there. I could go on and on about similar things, but the basic idea is this: You will spend money on entertainment. It's all about finding what you want most. I'm sure that is HTCs stance on such, and why they changed the way they removed names.
Couple of years ago, you could walk away for months, even a year before they would remove you account and or name if at all (I can attest to such with my name and account and members of my squad). It's your choice on what you want more: Name saved, Fun Activities, School. You need the latter 2, but you can incorporate the former into that as well. Sometimes you can have your cake, and eat it too... But I doubt this is one of those opportunities.
I also apologize for the harshness I came at you with initially. The tone could be turned down a bit, but the point is the same. I hope I didn't carry the tone to this response.
