When I started playing VCO, it was purely for fun. Now I spend most of my time hunting down rare swords and selling them for several hundred dollars apiece. The amount I make a week varied on the time of year. When a tournament was a couple weeks away or when the PVP season was in its homestretch, my sales would skyrocket and I would end up making two or three thousand dollars a week; but as the excitement slowed so too did my sales. I knew that if I would budget my money, I could live off of my VCO earning alone but deep down I knew that I needed more. I needed to get outside and talk with people in RL; real life. It's why I kept my minimum wage job, a crappy part-time shelf-stocker at some Wal-Mart clone, and it is how I knew I wasn't addicted.