I generally like shiny new games, but if I can get a game waaay cheaper preowned, or it's an old obscure game I can't find new, I have no qualms with buying an old one.
Poll: Do you buy used games?
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Nope.
The only local purveyors in secondhand software is the behemoth GameStop. The stores are too small, the ::fingerquotes:: "help" is anything but, and the prices for even years-old games exceptionally overpriced. I'm almost glad my PS2 up and disappeared in the move to the new house, just so that I don't even get the itch to rifle through the bargain bin anymore.
But mostly I prefer to buy my games direct from Steam, or via Amazon after a few weeks/months to let the price settle a bit below the ~$60 price point of most retailers, if for the console.
I literally own ONE game that I'd gonsidering turning in, but since it's only for store credit or just cents on the dollar of the pittance that they'd even offer for a PS3 Bioshock disk, I'll just let it sit in the game drawer to make me cringe when I get to the end of the bunch when I sift through the games.
The only local purveyors in secondhand software is the behemoth GameStop. The stores are too small, the ::fingerquotes:: "help" is anything but, and the prices for even years-old games exceptionally overpriced. I'm almost glad my PS2 up and disappeared in the move to the new house, just so that I don't even get the itch to rifle through the bargain bin anymore.
But mostly I prefer to buy my games direct from Steam, or via Amazon after a few weeks/months to let the price settle a bit below the ~$60 price point of most retailers, if for the console.
I literally own ONE game that I'd gonsidering turning in, but since it's only for store credit or just cents on the dollar of the pittance that they'd even offer for a PS3 Bioshock disk, I'll just let it sit in the game drawer to make me cringe when I get to the end of the bunch when I sift through the games.
It depends on the game.
Big title releases generally attract my immediate attention, as for anything that I can wait for, I just buy it used later down the line.
Big title releases generally attract my immediate attention, as for anything that I can wait for, I just buy it used later down the line.
Only if it's a game that's out of print or really hard to find otherwise. I do rarely pay full-price though, I'll usually wait a few months until the game I want drops in price. Or see if my local library has it in yet. Yes. My local library let's you lend games for free. I love that.
On the Pc-side I do most my gameshopping on either Steam or Gog right now so... No used copies there.
On the Pc-side I do most my gameshopping on either Steam or Gog right now so... No used copies there.
I buy used games, but it's usually older games that are generally difficult to find new. Gamecube games, for example, are nigh impossible to find new anymore. Your best bet to find a copy of, say, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes or Digimon World 4 (both of which are good fun, IMO) is to go to GameStop or Bookmans (A used store chain in the southwestern US) and browse their used game sections. Even then, you'd have to check at least a few times a week, especially with Bookmans. Their stock shifts fairly quickly. Not only that, but new games are almost always $50 or more these days, and the lion's share of games that I like are, as I've said, older games that are hard to find new.
So yeah, I buy used games, but I have my reasons.
So yeah, I buy used games, but I have my reasons.
Yea, I buy most of my games second hand, if I don't its because its cheaper to buy it new, then I sell them off when I'm done.
While I do enjoy unwrapping a new game. I buy most of my games used because I like saving the extra money.
Yes, most of the time.
Games are simply too damn expensive for me to buy them new. Now if more games adopted a sensible price tag at launch, i'd be much more willing to buy first hand.
For instance, I saw New vegas on sale for ?25 new after christmas, so I got it immediately.
I've also bought plenty of cheap games on steam. I go where the bargains are, I don't have Dosh.
And no, trying to guilt trip me into buying games new will never work.
Games are simply too damn expensive for me to buy them new. Now if more games adopted a sensible price tag at launch, i'd be much more willing to buy first hand.
For instance, I saw New vegas on sale for ?25 new after christmas, so I got it immediately.
I've also bought plenty of cheap games on steam. I go where the bargains are, I don't have Dosh.
And no, trying to guilt trip me into buying games new will never work.
I never buy new games. The only recent ones I've sprung for are DKCR and Bulletstorm. The only other game I plan on buying immediatly is TES:V and that's only if they give me a cool special edition package. Am I phsyced (fuck how do you even spell that?) about the Dukes return? Yes. Will I pay all the money I have on me for two months on it? Hell no.
I would never buy second hand games! I think you could just as well pirate them, since the developer and publisher doesn't get paid in any way and thats the only reason i buy my games.
This is why Steam is so great! You can always buy old games at a low cost and you still support the developer in some way instead of just supporting some jackass at your local game store (or your friends, if that's the ones you buy them from).
This is why Steam is so great! You can always buy old games at a low cost and you still support the developer in some way instead of just supporting some jackass at your local game store (or your friends, if that's the ones you buy them from).
I'm wary of doing so, obviously as they are used and there is the potential of them not functioning correctly, but yes, I do buy used games.