I make $100 if I work on a Saturday. I'm a college student. If you can't spare that much money, you're poor.

If you want to make the argument that you're being smart with your money, NEWS FLASH: You're spending at least $156 per year on FFXI. If you're playing this game, you have no right talking about how you don't want to "waste" money.

If anything, it would be a good investment. By buying a PC, you'd be able to play FFXI at higher settings with more options to do things like using the official windowed mode to surf the ffxi wiki when you need help with things. Not to mention, it won't break down nearly as easily as a PS2. If you ever play anything other than FFXI on your PS2, chances are that you are wearing down the (cheap) PS2 laser and eventually you'll start getting disk read errors. Never mind HDD issues which are also a problem.