Have you ever bought a game multiple times?

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Sold my PS3-copy of The Darkness, eventually grew to regret it and bought a secondhand copy, this time for 360.

I have Star Wars: Republic Commando twice. One the regular game for pc, the second as part of the Star Wars: Best of PC collection.

Also bought a second Half-Life and Opposing Force as part of the HL: Generation collection after the first copies got scratched/lost. And I have HL2 and HL2E1 on Steam and as part of The Orange Box on PS3.

I already have Okami on PS2, but I will be buying the HD version on release.

 

[ace_of_something]

Yep the first Dragon Age I wanted to play it on PC the wife wanted it on ps3.
Thanks to a shipping error I have paid for two copies of Borderlands 2... It'll be like a month before I get a refund on one of them. Thanks amazon.

 

[Zarbear]

Twice.

The first time was when I lost my copy of Final Fantasy X. To this day I have no clue as to where it went, but I only lost the disc itself and still had the case. Luckily this was in early 2003 and I got a second copy from EBGames (not GameStop yet!) for dirt cheap.

Portal 2 was the other one. I bought it for 360 at launch and traded it in that summer. Then I bought it again for PC on a Steam sale much later when they announced the Steam Workshop would be available for the game. I heart user-created content.

 

[Altorin]

I got oblivion on both the PC and the 360

i bought dragon age origins when it first came out, then later bought the ultimate edition

I bought champions of norrath for the PS2 twice, because I thought with such glowing reviews, I must have missed something my first time with the game, having hated it and traded it in.

I bought Radiata Stories for the PS2 a total of 3 times, due to a comedy of errors involving a clumsy father and 2 scratched discs

I bought onimusha 3 twice, because I traded it in with almost all my PS2 stuff to retain my "broke as fuck" status while still enjoying a 360, but it was on sale with a closing video rental store and I just had to buy it.

I think that covers my redundant purchases, not counting humble bundles, which occasionally overlap with games I've already purchased, such as braid

 

[pastacat]

I bought Zeus and Roller coaster tycoon multiple times. They were just too good to stop playing.

 

[skotconcarne]

Lets see where to start, three copies of FF3 for the super Nintendo. two copies of marrowind, two copies of need for speed underground, four copies of midnight club LA, three copies of borderlands, at least three copies of fallout 3, oh and does call of duty count as the same game over and over again?

 

[bl4ckh4wk64]

All three Mass Effect games on PC and 360. Battlefield 3 on PC and 360. Splinter Cell: Conviction on PC and 360. 2 copies of Ace Combat 5 for the PS2. 3 copies of Star Wars Battlefront 2 for PSP(lost first copy) and 360.

EDIT: Oh and two copies of KOTOR, one for original Xbox and another in a Steam sale. and 2 copies of KOTOR2, one disc and one Steam.

 

[OblivionSoul]

Devil May Cry 3
Half Life 2
MGS4
GTAIV
Metal Gear Solid (technically. Bought the Twin Snakes, then later bought the classic for Ps3)

I think that's all I've bought twice...

 

[Geth Reich]

I've bought Resident Evil 5 and MGS4 3 times each now because I keep trading them in, regretting my decision and regetting them to play with a friend.

If only I wasn't so bloody poor!

Can't see someone buying Alan Wake again, that was crap in my opinion!

 

[Elidibus]

First game I bought twice was Diablo 2. At the time I didn't know there was an expansion, so when I saw a copy of D2 and the expansion with a strategy guide for 12 bucks at a Goodwill, I couldn't resist.

I also bought FF7 from the PSN store. I have the original black label copy, but the first disk got loose and when I opened the case, it got stuck in the hinge and put a fairly substantial scratch in it. It only affects the part of the game after the world's most popular spoiler. When the prompt for disk two came up, I'd have to put that in, go to the next room and wait for it to load and then put in disk one. Later, after finishing the zone, I'd put in disk 2 and continue. The digital copy let me play without switching.

I also bought FF6 through the FF5/6 bundle even though I have it for SNES. But my SNES doesn't work.

And I bought two copies of City of Heroes to have two accounts. Godspeed, CoH. For truly, with your passing, you will finally have "Gone to the Americans" (inside CoH Joke)

 

[Mel Theofficegamergirl]

Yes. I think I've bought, sold, and then repurchased Katamari Damacy about 3 times. I think I'll keep this copy. Also, I've had to purchase audiosurf more than once. Totally worth it.

 

[ShoryukenDude]

I bought the first Prototype around 4 times. I'd buy it, start the game, get to a part I couldn't beat, stop, then sell it. Then I'd see it for cheap and the cycle started anew.

I was soooooo satisfied when I saw the credits roll on that one.

 

[l0ckd0wn]

A few games I purchased off of Steam were Thief 2 & 3, Age of Wonders 1, 2 & 3, Doom 1, 2 & 3...

Then, when they were available on Steam, I bought them there so as not to have to manage the licenses. I took the old discs to work where I could run them independently of the net.

 

[Vault Citizen]

Got give Dead Space for PS3

Sold my ps3 and got it for 360

360 broke, sold my games and got it for pc

Hated the controls on the pc version so bought the 360 version again when I bought another 360


Got Tekken 6 for 360. Bought it again after I got my third 360. Found out I could play the arena mode without having to do scenario mode on the psp version so I gave my 360 copy away and bought it on the PSP

 

[Schadrach]

Not including gifts, have you ever bought a game multiple times?

It has happened to me a few times for different reasons...

Bought Mirror's Edge on the Xbox360 and on the PC (when it was on Steam sale). Because my XBox broke down and I wanted to play the game again.

Also bought Alan Wake for the Xbox360 and PC (when it was on Steam sale). Never got a chance to play the DLC's and during the steam sale I got both games and all DLC's for the price of half a game. That was a good deal.

And bought Guilty Gear XX on the PC (while I had it on the Xbox36), just because I couldn't resist it for 5 bucks.

Bought Neverwinter Nights 2 twice because the second time I got it for free with the expansion.

Also bought Baldur's Gate 2 twice because the second time I got my hands on the limited edition, very cheap.

Bought Diablo II twice for multiplayer and bought World of Warcraft 2 times to have 2 accounts.

Bought Final Fantasy VII for the PC again, because I regret selling it.

Finally, bought a few indie games multiple times because they were including in indie bundles, while I already had those games.

And I am probably planning on buying a few old games I already own on GoG, because the GoG version has Windows 7 support.

Some of the games that have appeared in multiple pay-what-you-want indie bundles.

Also a few games that were in, for example, Steam publisher bundles where even adding in what I paid for those originally it was still a decent deal (I usually don't grab those unless the games I specifically want from it are normally higher than the total bundle price, and those bundles are a big chunk of why my Steam account is as high "valued" as it is according to Steam Calculator [~$6k, though that's not hard when I can spend $2 for a bundle on IndieGala, IndieRoyale, or Humble Bundle and up my "value" by $20-$80]).

 

[Mental Cosmas]

Only game that comes to mind is Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne. Bought it again after the first one snapped in the disk drive. Worth it, i'd say.

 

[JdaS]

Yeah more times than I'd like to admit.

Had to buy an Uncharted 1 & 2 bundle after trading them in and later realizing I shoudn't have.

Same thing happened with Assassin's Creed I & II.

Devil May Cry HD edition even though I owned the PS2 versions.

GTA IV is the winner here though. Bought the Episodes of Liberty City on disc. Disastrously buggy. Traded that in for a voucher to download them from PSN, which worked well for a time but quickly turned to shit as well. Finally bought the Complete Edition, which thankfully seems to work.

And I guess, if I wanted to be a dick, BlazBlue, Street Fighter IV and Marvel vs Capcom 3 and their constant re-releases. But I'm a fighting game junkie so I can't really complain about it.

 

[Headdrivehardscrew]

Sure.

I bought every Neo Geo and plenty of PSX games when the local video stores went out of business, as they would have cost me at least 10x on any other market. Plus, I had sweet Neo Geo love to hand out for a couple of birthdays and Christmas sessions to come.

I bought about half a dozen Warcraft III/Frozen Throne discs, just to make sure I'd never be stranded without it.

...and I bought Dark Souls twice, because I really liked - still do like - the idea of playing through this great experience another time, with higher resolution and less Bl..Bl..Bli..Blighttown stuttering.

No negative experiences to report, all is fine - apart from me never actually using more than one registration of WCIII/TFT.

Oh, and I have at least... seven incarnations of Street Fighter II on various Systems, for obvious reasons. I mean, how could you resist buying Street Fighter II X Special Turbo Hyper Plus? Come on!

I've met several folks that bought plenty of WOW copies to make their own, one-person guilds and their own gaming arcades (with nothing but WOW in most cases). That was actually a bit scary.

 

[4RM3D]

Nope.

I stick to PC gaming.
...
Reading the other comments, I'm honestly very surprised to find the nay-saying side I'm on, to be the minority.

Are you referring to buying the same game on different platform? I suppose you are. If you just have a PC, then you won't have that situation. I do try to get the games for the PC, if I have a choice, even if the game has been optimized for the console. I have an XBox360 controller for the PC, so the controls are not an issue. But the thing is, I bought a console for the console exclusives. I am a fan of JRPG's and the PC is severely lacking those.

 

[BENZOOKA]

Nope.

I stick to PC gaming.
...
Reading the other comments, I'm honestly very surprised to find the nay-saying side I'm on, to be the minority.

Are you referring to buying the same game on different platform? I suppose you are. If you just have a PC, then you won't have that situation. I do try to get the games for the PC, if I have a choice, even if the game has been optimized for the console. I have an XBox360 controller for the PC, so the controls are not an issue. But the thing is, I bought a console for the console exclusives. I am a fan of JRPG's and the PC is severely lacking those.

I'm referring to the topic at hand: buying multiple copies of the same game. I can understand the situation with having more than one platforms;
You feel a game is better on another platform.
You simply want to see what a game is like on another platform.
There's only one game you play on, say PS3, and all the rest are on XBox 360, so you buy the multi-platform game's other version to get all your games on one machine so you can sell the other one or simply get rid of keeping it constantly plugged in too.
The list goes on, but it follows a pattern...

What I'm surprised of, is how the majority, it seems, buys the same game over and over again. Using multiple gaming platforms is common, I believe, yet I can't see how nearly all of those people in question would end up buying the same game for more than one system.

Even more surprising, and my original point (understanding the issue with having multiple platforms), is the amount of people buying the very same game on the same platform because of things like wanting to support even more, losing a disc, selling it and realizing you want it back, and so on.