Your most unlucky purchase

[EHKOS]

I bought Darksiders for full price. Now I have a bias against the series. It was so not worth it. Especially the last two hours.

 

[F'Angus]

I have a big bunch of games on steam that my laptop can't run... One day I will be able to play them.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

I bought Assassin's Creed Revelations, instead of Skyward Sword. Worst of all, I bought it and Saint's Row the Third, and spent too long playing the latter, so my full-price return period had expired, and I would only get about $30 for a hot off the presses stabby. I used to be mad at myself for that. Then I was mad at Ubisoft. Now, I'm just sad.

 

[snagli]

Command and Conquer 4. God that game was awful.

 

[somonels]

I bought milk, it was spoiled.

Well let's see, my dad is a big mac addict

Oh, you meant Macintosh.

 

[Reyold]

PlayStation 3.

nuff said

Really? Huh. I like mine.

Oh well, different strokes for different folks.

OT: My unlucky purchase? Last Rebellion. Good grief, that game was bad.

 

[malkavianmadman]

My first pack of smokes. Caused me to be addicted for the last 14 years or so. Finally gave up earlier this year but I have realised since then that I dont know how to handle certain things without cigerettes.

 

[KrossBillNye]

Buying this from this website: http://www.gaggleupgadgets.com/collections/tablets/products/android-tablet-7-inch

I highly suggest no one else do this unless you want to buy a PoS Android tablet that you want to take a hammer to.

It cost me 90 bucks at the time of purchase. Waste of money and I was unable to get a refund.

Speaking of which I might take a sledge hammer to mine...

 

[Darren716]

A few days ago I decided to buy Old World Blues for Fallout New Vegas to get some more play time out of it, I download it, go to the drive in, watch the cut scene, and... ERROR DISK IS UNREADABLE. I looked at my disk to see it was cracked in the center so now I'm out 800 MS points I could of spent on something else. It did teach me now to always make sure my games are in perfect working order before putting more money into them.

 

[Nackl of Gilmed]

I've got a weird one. I got a dvd for a birthday one year. Tenacious D Complete Master Works, it was called. It was meant to contain their HBO show, a live concert, a couple of music videos and some extra stuff. However, the 2nd disc of the 2 disc set was somehow - somehow - a Bruce Springsteen concert instead. The graphic on the surface of the disc said Tenacious D, but it had somehow accidentally been coded with something else. To this day I don't know if that happened to a million copies of the thing or mine alone.

 

[Gabanuka]

I got Lego Batman 2 the day my PS3 broke. S

Seriously I was playing Red Dead Redemption, turned it off and went downstairs for a cup of tea, game came, turned PS3 on, YLOD.

The worst part is that now my second playthrough of Red Dead is ruined since I was a good way through when I lost all my data.

 

[Worgen]

$500 cpu about a month before AMD cut all its cpu prices in half.

 

[PhunkyPhazon]

Mine isn't anywhere near as bad as other entries here, but I made an account with Direct 2 Drive just so I could take advantage of a sale that listed Assassin's Creed for $5. I *much* prefer Steam for the overall convenience and far superior interface, but whatever.

Well guess what sale Steam decides to run a week later?

 

[SecondPrize]

My first pack of smokes. Caused me to be addicted for the last 14 years or so. Finally gave up earlier this year but I have realised since then that I dont know how to handle certain things without cigerettes.

It sucks but you just have to power through it. What helps me, oddly enough, is I gained a bunch of weight I definitely didn't need so I tell myself that shit will be for nothing if I give in, and that i'll start again when I get in shape and get my lung capacity back for running the weight off.

 

[bojackx]

Unlucky? Nothing too bad, in fact I can only think of one single example of an "unlucky" purchase, and that was buying Fallout: New Vegas during one of the Steam sales for £7.50 and then it dropping to £3.75 the next day. Didn't bother me much at all.

I've had much more bad purchases, but they weren't really unlucky, just bad. Rock Band and Secret Agent Clank I bought for near enough full price. Those were mistakes.

 

[Blackfire001]

Hellgate: London Lifetime Subscription.

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[Davey Woo]

I bought Lost Planet, in the expectation that all of my friends were getting Lost Planet 2 after we all had loads of fun with the demo on Xbox Live. I played about 5 minutes of Lost Planet, and none of us ever got Lost Planet 2. Worst £10 I ever spent.

 

[Ziame]

a lot of them, haha.

Brink is shit; Space Rangers bored me to no end.

all of my guitar gear... i kinda grown out of it. AFTER BUYING THREE NEW EFFECT PEDALS. and i'm like, i just cant play anymore LOL.

there's also Witcher fucking Two. good god i hate this game so much i gonna cry.

/me cries

 

[taylorton147]

brink, that game was full of disappoint

 

[Odinsson]

I bought Alone in the Dark (the new one) for like $70 when it came out without doing any research....
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