"Hey can I borrow that?" "...no"
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Depends on the friend and how new the game is. For example, I have a friend who I trust with my games, and we tend to do a temporary trade. He looks after his games, makes sure they're clean, puts them back in the case etc. Once he accidentally left one of my discs in school and it got stolen, but he replaced the game within a week so all was good.
I have another friend who has no respect for his own games. He leaves the discs lying around his house where they get scratched to death, and once he accidentally snapped a disc he'd borrowed from someone else. He refused to replace it, saying it's "not his problem". I don't lend games to him.
I'm not too bad with lending books either, except for my copy of Watchmen (had the individual issues as a kid and they got stolen by a supposed 'friend') and my Star Wars books (I've got 78 so far and it's a collection I'm quite proud of).
I have another friend who has no respect for his own games. He leaves the discs lying around his house where they get scratched to death, and once he accidentally snapped a disc he'd borrowed from someone else. He refused to replace it, saying it's "not his problem". I don't lend games to him.
I'm not too bad with lending books either, except for my copy of Watchmen (had the individual issues as a kid and they got stolen by a supposed 'friend') and my Star Wars books (I've got 78 so far and it's a collection I'm quite proud of).
My brother has a different set of lending ideals than I do. I lend very little to very few, but be lends a whole bunch to people I haven't even met before. The trouble starts when siblings have to share property they were given for birthdays and christmas, gifts that were adressed to both of them. In my case, this meant that if it was belonged to both of us he had free access to lend it in any way he saw fit. It got pretty fraustrating when you got an itch to play a classic in your library and it turns out to be at some bum's house.
Most recent episode of that was when my brother started hanging out with this older 'frat boy' type of guy from a nearby town. This guy had a reputation for being trouble, but my older brother is part hippie now and he claims to accept everybody. The new guy had just come off a construction job and decided on a whim to buy an xbox and about $300 worth of games and equipment. Of all the games he bought, he didn't buy Halo 3 which my brother and I owned a copy of. My brother lends it, once again without my knowledge. About two weeks later I heard down the grapevine that he had totaled the disk. The way it was decribed to me, he pulled off a classic noob manuver and tilted the console while it was in play, sawblading the disk to worthlessness. He got up with my brother later and told him about the damages promising to buy him a new one... after his income tax return came in anywhere from one to three months later. I got impatient with deadbeat and went out and bought a shiny new copy for myself. If we were to ever get a new copy back from deadbeat it would belong to my brother and he could lend it out to as many bums as he wanted. About two weeks later my brother got a replacement from the guy. It wasn't a new disk however. He gave us back our old case and manual with a new used disk with plenty of wear. Upon further investigation it turned out that the disk was stolen from his neighbor.
So yeah, I don't lend out games myself. There's too much risk of not ever seeing them again.
Most recent episode of that was when my brother started hanging out with this older 'frat boy' type of guy from a nearby town. This guy had a reputation for being trouble, but my older brother is part hippie now and he claims to accept everybody. The new guy had just come off a construction job and decided on a whim to buy an xbox and about $300 worth of games and equipment. Of all the games he bought, he didn't buy Halo 3 which my brother and I owned a copy of. My brother lends it, once again without my knowledge. About two weeks later I heard down the grapevine that he had totaled the disk. The way it was decribed to me, he pulled off a classic noob manuver and tilted the console while it was in play, sawblading the disk to worthlessness. He got up with my brother later and told him about the damages promising to buy him a new one... after his income tax return came in anywhere from one to three months later. I got impatient with deadbeat and went out and bought a shiny new copy for myself. If we were to ever get a new copy back from deadbeat it would belong to my brother and he could lend it out to as many bums as he wanted. About two weeks later my brother got a replacement from the guy. It wasn't a new disk however. He gave us back our old case and manual with a new used disk with plenty of wear. Upon further investigation it turned out that the disk was stolen from his neighbor.
So yeah, I don't lend out games myself. There's too much risk of not ever seeing them again.
If you can't trust a friend to return a game without losing/breaking it then I suggest new friends people.
I don't usually lend games because the only friend I have who doesn't buy every single new one (more or less) that comes out has pretty much identical taste to me. We have traded games once or twice but that's it really.
I don't usually lend games because the only friend I have who doesn't buy every single new one (more or less) that comes out has pretty much identical taste to me. We have traded games once or twice but that's it really.
I used to be super hardcore about keeping track of my games... I think when I was a teenager I even had an Excel file listing them all, and where they currently were located. Just so nobody moved off to Nunavut all of a sudden with my copy of Diablo II. Same with books. One day I realized that I had way too much media as it was, and that if one or two of them wandered off it wouldn't be the end of the world.
This coincided with the fact that I had a decently-paying job for the first time, and so I didn't feel like everything I owned was irreplaceable. Also, I didn't want to be one of those tools who treats their stuff with the overbearing concern usually reserved for a baby or pet.
This coincided with the fact that I had a decently-paying job for the first time, and so I didn't feel like everything I owned was irreplaceable. Also, I didn't want to be one of those tools who treats their stuff with the overbearing concern usually reserved for a baby or pet.
Usually I don't have a problem lending my games out. In fact, one of my friends still has my Doom 3 and Jets n' Guns Gold... But since I can run 'em without the CD I'm not too worried. I'll usually only lend a game out when I've played it to death and am done with it, and usually only demand it back when I need to re-install it. Most of the time I'll get it back within 24 hours, too.
So no, not had too much of a problem.
When I was in school (many years ago) I had a bad experience where I let one of my neighbours borrow a game off me. When I returned to collect it I found they'd moved house.
Even worse, the game I let them borrow (for a day! a DAY!!) wasn't mine!
Luckily, the guy I'd borrowed the lost game off was cool with it - as I pretty much let him pick any one of my games to keep, and he elected to keep the game I'd lent to him in trade. (Flashback on the Genesis. The game I'd lost on him was Lemmings 2: Tribes, also on the Mega Drive)
So no, not had too much of a problem.
When I was in school (many years ago) I had a bad experience where I let one of my neighbours borrow a game off me. When I returned to collect it I found they'd moved house.
Even worse, the game I let them borrow (for a day! a DAY!!) wasn't mine!
Luckily, the guy I'd borrowed the lost game off was cool with it - as I pretty much let him pick any one of my games to keep, and he elected to keep the game I'd lent to him in trade. (Flashback on the Genesis. The game I'd lost on him was Lemmings 2: Tribes, also on the Mega Drive)
Once I've finished a game I really don't feel the need to play it again, at least for a while. If I ever want to play through a game again, I have to wait at least a couple of months before I feel like it again. So, if I've finished a game I see no reason to not lend it to a friend.
I lend games to my housemate sometimes when he's iffy about playing them--usually he'll get into it, get tired of fighting me for the disk, and go get his own copy.
If I trust someone enough I'm not usually bothered about them borrowing my games off me.
I leant my friend some games over 2 years ago and haven't got them back yet, problem is I can't remember all the ones I leant. They are PS2 games I don't miss them but my brother plays his PS2 alot still asks to borrow them to discover they aren't there.
When I ask for them back I usually get "oh yeah I forgot again, next time I'll bring them back". I could probably get them back if I tried a bit harder.
I leant my friend some games over 2 years ago and haven't got them back yet, problem is I can't remember all the ones I leant. They are PS2 games I don't miss them but my brother plays his PS2 alot still asks to borrow them to discover they aren't there.
When I ask for them back I usually get "oh yeah I forgot again, next time I'll bring them back". I could probably get them back if I tried a bit harder.
There's only two people that would ever ask to borrow a game from me.
My brother: the answer would be no. He lives 2 hours away on the train so I only see him if I go to visit my parents, I'd never get 'em back. Also, he doesn't look after things.
My housemate: I regularly lend stuff to him, and vice versa. He doesn't wreck things and it's easy to ask for stuff back 'cos he only lives upstairs.
My brother: the answer would be no. He lives 2 hours away on the train so I only see him if I go to visit my parents, I'd never get 'em back. Also, he doesn't look after things.
My housemate: I regularly lend stuff to him, and vice versa. He doesn't wreck things and it's easy to ask for stuff back 'cos he only lives upstairs.
I only lend a game if the person exchanges it for something that I want to play and I know they are going to want back someday.
there's only 1 friend i don't lend games too because i once lent him a game that belonged to my bro, and he lost it, even after i told him to be extra careful with it
so now he's not allowed my games, ever
all my other friends aren't big gamers, so when they do ask to borrow one i don't mind at all, i usually get it back after 2 weeks
so now he's not allowed my games, ever
all my other friends aren't big gamers, so when they do ask to borrow one i don't mind at all, i usually get it back after 2 weeks
I have one friend who I trade games with all the time, my other friend... I would always need to badger her to remind her to give it back, as she still has video games from other friends after moving two timezones away last year. So, it really depends how much I know the person.
I lend out games, but it comes with a price. I acutally make them sign a waiver saying that if the game is damaged or lost that they will have to replace it.
Considering my father is a lawyer, he's made it as much of a legal document as he could and thus, noone wants to try it out... LOL!
I've only had one game broken by a friend, but by the time I knew, he had handed me a brand new, unopened one! XD
Considering my father is a lawyer, he's made it as much of a legal document as he could and thus, noone wants to try it out... LOL!
I've only had one game broken by a friend, but by the time I knew, he had handed me a brand new, unopened one! XD
