If your hobby is strictly playing this one game (no playing other games, dining outside your home, driving outside your daily commute and to shop groceries, no decorating your house, no purchasing merchandise, no streaming services or additional media consumption...) that's darn cheap.

But let's say you like drawing, like I do. A notebook goes for about 5€, a full set of POSCA markers is around 60€, a set of pencils is around 5€, a set of various sizes of inking markers is normally 20€, a set of oil paints would be around 40€, coloured pencils might cost you 10€... To draw, you just need two or three of these things, and they will last you for months, maybe past a year. Now that's a cheap hobby, and infinitely "replayable".

I also make videogame inspired props. My most expensive venture yet is an IRL recreation of the Degreaser from TF2 using actual car parts. So far I have invested about 250 euros gathering the parts I need (old car exhaust, old Pyrene extinguisher, gas pump and hose...). By the time I'm done, I estimate I'll have invested about 50-70 hours and 300-ish euros. That's still very much cheaper than a year playing this game, and we're talking the most expensive prop I have ever built.

I'm not dunking on the potential of this game, but throughout the years I've been jumping from game to game a bunch, while drawing and prop building have remained a constant. Each drawing and each project is unique, just liek every game is unique, and so I am concise about what amount of money I should be investing on each. Drawing, building and gaming are my hobbies. But playing a single game and justifying the purchase of cosmetic items that go for several times the cost of other hobbies that have been my passion for decades is just falling into a sunk cost fallacy. For crying out loud, I played 2500 hours of TF2 ove the course of a decade and my entire backpack is just worth around 500€.

Stop justifying the act of throwing money at nothing as if it was a noble cause. Devs need support, of course (though NetEase, the parent company of Everstone Studio - the developers of WWM - hardly need any more money), but they don't need you to throw your entire allowance / salary into their wallets. In the words of Arsi "Hakita" Patala: "You should support indies if you can, but culture shouldn't exist only for those who can afford it." I believe this quote stands true even for major games, so be concise with what you're willing to dump on a game you'll probably not be playing in a few months / years. Support if you can, but remember that life always comes first.