Poll: When do you get a new game?

[VanityGirl]

Whenever I had the money of course.
I can't honestly be bothered to wait till 12am to buy a game. I've only done that for a few movies.

 

[leady129]

Usually about a year later, when the price has dropped from $120 to something closer to $60.

 

[KarumaK]

Money, is it there? Yes? I need to get rid of it.

Cash burns holes in my pocket, if I got it I spend it.

 

[War Penguin]

Whenever my friend plays it and says it's good.

 

[Dentedgod]

So are you an isomniac who waits outside Gamestop at 12 o'clock at night? Or the guy who waits till it's on clearance? What?

Opinions, discuss.

I always wait 3-6 months for a game just so I can get it for half price or less. Sometimes friends will even beat a game and I'll borrow it or they'll give it to me. Sometimes I get them for even cheaper, I bought Overlord at Gamestop for $10 and loved it (if I had bought it for $69 there would have been far less love). I just recently got COD:WAW used for $10 so I could play Nazi Zombies with my friends, I spent more on the map packs than I did on the game.

The other advantage of this is that I never have a time where there are no new games out. I always have a list of games that I've been meaning to play.

 

[Darkblaven]

I borrow it from a friend first, he plays it hardcore style (NO STOPPING!), and when hes done, and is bored I say can borrow (name), and BOOM! I get to try a game for some time, and then after if its good, and I feel like achievement whoring,I end up buying it to system link with my friend, or online.

 

[StigmataDiaboli]

I only get new games when there is something I personaly REALLY want to get. DiRT 2 will be my next NEW game purchase. And thinking about it, that last NEW game I bought was Dead Space...and that was last year wasn't it?

 

[BBLIZZARD]

I'll get a game the day it comes out if i've been really looking forward to it. I've only been to one midnight release and it was only fun because some of my friends were there.

 

[Zombie Izzard]

I buy a game when I see it cheap. Play it, sell it. Then when I want to play it again I buy it again for less than I sold it. I continue this process until the game is completely devalued, then I keep it.

So you like to waste money whenever possible? My friend use to do this and it drove me insane.

How am I wasting money? It means I end up paying about a third of what I would pre-odering it.

Okay forget about pre ordering anything. Say you buy a game for 40 sell it for 20 buy it for 15 sell it for 5 then buy it again at 7. You just spent 66 and only earned 25, making you lost 41 dollars. More then what you payed for it originally.

 

[dwoo21]

I find it easier to pre-order it on Play.com. They deliver it for me, usually before it's released in shops .
All is good.

Now THAT is advertising and I'm sold so I think I may check that out(I'm suprised I've never heard of it)

 

[dwoo21]

Usually when a game I'm interested in comes out not "reviewer's pick" or my Birthday

 

[Spaz91]

I buy a game when I see it cheap. Play it, sell it. Then when I want to play it again I buy it again for less than I sold it. I continue this process until the game is completely devalued, then I keep it.

So you like to waste money whenever possible? My friend use to do this and it drove me insane.

How am I wasting money? It means I end up paying about a third of what I would pre-odering it.

Okay forget about pre ordering anything. Say you buy a game for 40 sell it for 20 buy it for 15 sell it for 5 then buy it again at 7. You just spent 66 and only earned 25, making you lost 41 dollars. More then what you payed for it originally.

It usually goes, buy game for 30, sell for 20, buy for 15, sell for ten, buy for 5, keep.
Saves a tenner.
I will add that now PS2 games are practically worthless I'm rebuilding my collection so I'm buying a ps2 game every other day for small change.

 

[Stalk3rchief]

I waited outside for Halo-3 [my god that was a long time ago] and then I waited outside to get Resident Evil 5.
I regret every getting those games, but the wait was pretty fun.
Bring a cooler, chairs, and make sure you share with your fellow line-men. You will make friends =D

 

[Woundingisfun]

You won't see me outside a gameshop early in the morning. I buy games when I feel like it, and if I think it's a good investment. I bought Red Faction: Guerilla not long after it's release and I think it was money well spent.

MW:2 and Assassins Creed 2 might be the first two games I am determined to buy on the day they get released, so I'm looking forward to November.

 

[SimuLord]

I have three general rules for getting new games.

1) If it's a hugely anticipated release that I have been frothing over for months during the development cycle (as in a new Paradox game or a new Total War), I buy it on release day, usually first thing in the morning, setting Steam to digitally download it while I'm off doing my day's required tasks so it'll be ready when I get home.

2) If it's a new release I'm interested in but isn't from Paradox or Creative Assembly, I'll probably let Metacritic assemble a few reviews first. If the game looks good but not great, it gets tabled until it drops in price (currently Dawn of Discovery is on this list---I'm waiting for a price drop and/or removal of the install-limit DRM before I buy.)

3) If it's a game that just slipped through my cracks in previous years and comes out in a special edition for $20, I'll buy it then---I buy most of my games this way, most notably Morrowind's GotY edition and the SimCity Box from EA for SimCity 4.

 

[dwoo21]

I find it easier to pre-order it on Play.com. They deliver it for me, usually before it's released in shops .
All is good.

Now THAT is advertising and I'm sold so I think I may check that out(I'm suprised I've never heard of it)

I think its only based in the UK, i may be wrong.

I checked out the website and your right its based in the UK but I can probably order games there but it would take longer and I don't know if they accept U.S. currency, what am I saying if u have money people will take it