Anyone Else Addicted to Buying New Games?

**flki9812** · 10-03-2009, 10:43 AM

Nope. Really, I have nothing to add, but not so addicted to buying new games.

Back when I had a PS2, I bought several games upfront, and they are still sealed (Final Fantasy XII comes to mind) today (to its credit, the first week it was available it was on sale for $35 at TRU.)

I sort of laid off buying new games after Halo 3 came out... and I've yet to play more than an hour of it.

**flki9812** · 10-03-2009, 10:43 AM

I'm picky as $60 is allot to me. ANd since the wife just got laid off (2nd time this year) I have to be more cautious. Right now I'm set on only two, Red Faction and Ghostbusters. I'd love to grab Damnation, Fuel and UFC but just gota watch the $$$$.

**flki9812** · 10-03-2009, 10:43 AM

I have been getting a little bit better about it recently and shown some willpower to not get stuff right away, but I do indeed suffer from the same "get it now" mentality for games anad DVD's.
I can't count how many DVD's I own that I bought release week and are still sitting on my shelf unopened (sometimes years later) and can be had dirt cheap now. Same for video games.

**flki9812** · 10-03-2009, 10:43 AM

Depends. It's a harder to find a good game than it a good movie. But I've lucked out with trade ins.

**ice37** · 10-03-2009, 10:43 AM

My normal MO for games was to buy them, beat them and sell them on eBay and generally break even or pay just a bit in the end.

There are suckers on Ebay that will pay full price for a used game? Why wouldn't they just go to Best Buy, Wal*Mart or whatever and buy it new?

**ice37** · 10-03-2009, 10:43 AM

Not at all. I've spent $60 (or thereabouts) on new games only sparingly: LBP, Halo 3, GTAIV, Bioshock, Rock Band, and Rock Band 2 are all that come to mind in the past two years.

I got RB2 the week of release used at GS for under $40 (with their 30% coupon + another 10% from EDGE). Sometimes, Gamestop is not *completely* useless.

**ice37** · 10-03-2009, 10:43 AM

:lol: Nice sig Fusion.

As for the topic at hand. Addicted to buying? Yes. Addicted to buying new? No.

**ice37** · 10-03-2009, 10:43 AM

I swore i would never buy a new game on release week. Then on Wednesday i decided to buy Infamous

I thought to myself it will probably be half price in a few months. But soon I realized the game is an exclusive Sony game. Those games take forever to drop in price unlike multiplatform games. I expect Prototype to drop quick.

**flki9812** · 10-03-2009, 10:43 AM

I've started trolling the Target clearance. Granted, I work there, so it's kind of my job to check in on that every so often (... kinda). But I realize most games that hit the deep discount at 75% off are going to be the big games that we stocked deep in. Just this week Street Fighter 4 was $37, and I had a 10% Red Card bonus and my 10% employee discount. That's about $30, but I told myself to hold off--if it hits deep discount, I'll get it, if not, oh well, it wasn't meant to be.

When it does hit the 75% off rack, I can play through it in about 2 weeks, and usually they're still new enough at that point that I can flip it for about a $5 profit... I'm addicted to that (note, I never buy a game with the sole intention of flipping it, I always play it, although some like Sonic Unleashed I got super pissed off at and posted it on Ebay before beating).

**ice37** · 10-03-2009, 10:43 AM

Damn Gamestop and their B2G1 sale.

I added 6 games today. I need help.

:lol:

I know what ya mean. I spent almost $200 on the sale, but I didn't buy Infamous! lol I know it will be available the next time Gamestop has this sale. They had a 20% sale a few weeks, and I really wanted to find a used copy of Wolverine. No dice, but this weekend, I found 10 copies of the game. So I managed to get Wolverine, Bionic Commando and Star Ocean for $107.

Course, June is going to be a hard month to ignore with Red Faction, Prototype, Fuel, Ghostbusters and Call of Jurez!