Poll: Do you buy used games?
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Very, very, very rarely. Since I get discount on most new games, it's generally the same price (if not cheaper) as other place's used games. Only games I might get used are either ones I just don't ever get at my store new or older games not sold anymore. Voted "No".
Yep, most of my game collection is second hand. I don't tend to get many new releases on launch day, mainly because I know that 2 or 3 months down the line, I can pick it up for about £25. Sure, this means I'm outta the loop when it comes to discussing them, plus I'm a little slow to the party if I decide to review them but hey, I'm all about saving money. The only games I've gotten new lately was Reach and New Vegas. Even Blops was a second hand buy at £35.
Of course. They're cheaper and easier to find, especially if you're like me and routinely buy games that are 5+ years old.
I've started to do it more often now, mainly as money is going short around here and buying a game I want for £10/£20 less is awesome. Hell, I got Bully: Scholarship Edition for £20 the other day. A bargain when some places are still selling it for the main retail price. Saw Mass Effect 2 for £12, so I'm gonna go back for that.
Yeppers. About half of the games I buy are used. I buy a lot of older console games, so they are usually dirt cheap used, and rather difficult to find new. I am also dirt poor, so there is that. I generally prefer new games because they are guaranteed to work from the get go, but as long as the game works, it does not much matter. I personally find nothing wrong with the practice.
Now, would you buy Reach knowing that you'd have to pay an extra 10 dollars to play multiplayer?Sassafrass said:
yea most of my games are pre-owned but there games that are a couple of years old and most of the time there easy to fined 2nd-hand.
The only used games I buy are the really old ones you can't find anymore. It may not be wrong to buy them used but I'm not a fan of giving money solely to gamestop when the developers did all the work.
Since I collect older games it would be pretty hard to do if didn't buy used games.
Personally I don't care how old the game is. Devs and publishers are not my special friends. I am not going to go out of my way to appease them. They need to go out of their way to appease me, the customer. Used or new however I find it at a decent price.
Personally I don't care how old the game is. Devs and publishers are not my special friends. I am not going to go out of my way to appease them. They need to go out of their way to appease me, the customer. Used or new however I find it at a decent price.
I've only ever bought Infamous and Armored Core 4 as used games before. and even that was only because I was forced to buy something right away, something worth exactly $80, and those two were the only games I was interested in at the time.
I don't know why I only ever buy games brand-new. Perhaps it's because I've had bad experiences with used devices before, perhaps it's because I'm happier knowing that the creators of the game are getting some of the money I'm paying.
Though really, to save myself $10 here and there doesn't even really seem worth it when it comes to buying games. I buy maybe one new game every 2-3 months, so I might as well make it worth my while. Plus, with all those pre-order bonuses you get these days it almost seems silly not to pre-order a game if you know you're going to buy it eventually anyway.
I don't know why I only ever buy games brand-new. Perhaps it's because I've had bad experiences with used devices before, perhaps it's because I'm happier knowing that the creators of the game are getting some of the money I'm paying.
Though really, to save myself $10 here and there doesn't even really seem worth it when it comes to buying games. I buy maybe one new game every 2-3 months, so I might as well make it worth my while. Plus, with all those pre-order bonuses you get these days it almost seems silly not to pre-order a game if you know you're going to buy it eventually anyway.
Only old games that you can't find and a new copy of which runs for 85$ on Amazon. Or if it is a game that sold really well. I tend to like games from devs that don't make a lot of money, like Atlus or NIS, so I feel obligated to buy new. Every dollar helps devs like that.
My primary sources of games are:
a) Steam sales and
b) My brother's Steam account in Offline Mode.
That being said, my two strategies I often use when buying games are either "wait for the game to become super cheap" or "wait for my brother to get it on Steam".
I buy used games once in a blue moon, but it's more or less as often as I buy games new, which is something I save for games I really, really anticipate like Starcraft II and Portal 2 and Deus Ex and Miles Edgeworth Ace Attourney Investigations.
a) Steam sales and
b) My brother's Steam account in Offline Mode.
That being said, my two strategies I often use when buying games are either "wait for the game to become super cheap" or "wait for my brother to get it on Steam".
I buy used games once in a blue moon, but it's more or less as often as I buy games new, which is something I save for games I really, really anticipate like Starcraft II and Portal 2 and Deus Ex and Miles Edgeworth Ace Attourney Investigations.
Every dollar gained helps the developers, yes, but every dollar taken from a games original price is one more dollar I can use for food. I buy used games nearly 100 percent of the time because I simply can't afford to get them new. I wanted to get Skate 3 for the longest time, but I had to wait until the price dropped to less than twenty dollars, and even then I had no money to get it, and had to borrow it from a friend I've only recently been talking to.
The economy is rough on ALL of us, but at least those developers have jobs...jobs that I can't get.
So used it is.
The economy is rough on ALL of us, but at least those developers have jobs...jobs that I can't get.
So used it is.
Blindswordmaster said:
Hmm. If I had to pay an extra $10, or whatever the British equivalent is (I think $10 equals about £6/7 here, not too sure), I'd have to give it a bit more thought if my budget was tight. If I had the spare cash, I wouldn't mind too much, probably. But as it stands now, my current situation means I'm strictly on the SP and local MP only. So I can buy my games without worry of any content being blocked or paying for the online MP.
Pretty rarely. Too many experiences with resurfaced discs and ones that have been scratched to oblivion.
What?RoseCoveredCadaver said:
http://www.gnomeslair.com/2008/01/100-excellent-free-games-in-bloom.html
Beat all those. Economy isn't so tough. Skate 3 is not a necessity in your life.
I am sick of people blaming their behaviors on being poor.
Developers can have it hard too. They don't get those jobs because they're high-paying, they do it because they enjoy what they do. When a game doesn't sell well (when I say "sell", I refer to somebody buying a NEW copy) then they don't get to do what they do.