Poll: Do you buy used games?

[Netrigan]

Very rarely, as I found the usual $5 saving not enough to off-set the inconvenience of the two or three defective games I've run afoul of (two of the first four 360 games I bought had to be returned).

I only buy them if it's the only option available or if there's a considerable savings involved. Anything less than $10 isn't worth it for me.

 

[trooper6]

I used to buy used games quite a lot--so I voted yes.

However, in the last couple of years, Gamestop has been charging almost the same amount of money for a used game as for a new game. If I'm looking at $60 for a brand new game or $55 for a used game, I'm buying the new game.

The used game market is now just a ripoff.

 

[Rough Sausage]

Quite rarely. I trade in a lot though. I only really buy used when I absolutely cannot afford a full priced game that I feel I need to own.

 

[conflictofinterests]

If I have to own a physical copy and if it is not Assassin's Creed, I buy used. I don't really have the money to throw at new games.

 

[conflictofinterests]

I used to buy used games quite a lot--so I voted yes.

However, in the last couple of years, Gamestop has been charging almost the same amount of money for a used game as for a new game. If I'm looking at $60 for a brand new game or $55 for a used game, I'm buying the new game.

The used game market is now just a ripoff.

That's just for GOOD games. The bargain bin has stuff for $6, where the new stuff is standard new game asking price. x3

 

[8bitlove2a03]

I do not buy games used. HOWEVER this is only because I buy an average of three games a year, and they are almost always titles I preorder because I am looking forward to them.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Only if there is no other copy available, otherwise no. I don't really care about the publisher's profits or any of that. Personally, I have a hard time sympathizing with extremely rich men who whine about not being as rich as they could be all the while sipping $1000 champagne and lighting cigars with $100 bills. No for me there's something, I don't know, authentic? no that's not it... genuine? no that's not it either. Well it feels much more mine when I buy the game new anyway.

 

[teqrevisited]

Yes but I buy my favourites brand new. Nothing beats the New Game Manual smell, and the guarantee that no clumsy sod's tried to repair it.