If you're into MMOs, I don't recommend typing /played into the chat window. And if your really into MMOs, I doubly don't recommend it. The only worse thing you could do is calculate exactly how much money you've spent.

Which is what Jeff Hollis at Inc Gamers has done.

Recently, I got to thinking about how much money my family has spent on WoW. The truth is, I don't know the answer, even as I type this. Interestingly, that question led to another similar question, simply because I've spent money on a whole bunch of other Blizzard products. I tried to do a quick little mental calculation, but things quickly got out of hand. The moment I began to do the mental mathematics, I realized that the amounts involved far exceeded anything I'd expected.

After detailing the various expenditures and doing some math, Mr. Hollis comes to the sum of $4,374.08. However, about half of this was the cost of maintaining an account for his wife and flying her to a Blizzard event in Seoul. So the takeaway lesson from this cautionary tale is that the best way to save money is not to marry someone who's into MMOs. In real life, of course. You can feel free to marry such a person in the actual MMO.