Poor gamers, like myself, hate the months leading up until the holidays. It's all these damn awesome games that come out all at once. It's like the gaming industry blows their massive loads all over a underage Asian prostitute's face all at once and then just dribbles on her chin for the rest of the year. Thats all fine and good. I'm all for painting the face white but I like to spread my batter out over the course of time to make my enjoyment and her tears last. Whoa, wait. Oh shit thats right this is a gaming site.
I'm poor. Not unemployed. I have a good career but an expensive family and mortgage, student loans, car payments, and a big family to buy Christmas presents for. Where the hell am I going to syphon all the money I need just to buy the Nintendo games I want this season. I'm not even going into the other consoles. I would need a home equity loan to keep up. Maybe I can skip an oil payment. Who needs hot water. I'm married so I'm used to cold showers.
November 13th could be an expensive day for all gamers. I already have two preorders down for that date with at least four other games I really want that week. Just looking at November, I forgot to keep my eye on October and realized Battalion Wars 2 is releasing. Was I too busy watching Diago and Blue's Clues to see this? Shit! Sorry kids, homemade Halloween costumes for you. You will be a ghost with your pillowcase and you will be um a gangsta with this blue bandanna. Just don't go trick or treating past 26th Street into the Bloods territory.
Anyone want a perfectly good white child? I need money for all these games...I keed I keed. I need them. Who else am I going to whoop on in FPS games.
1. You can always get more money. You can make shit and sell it to morons, you can seek out good bargains and sell them on for a profit, you can take scrap metal to junk yards and get cash for that... It depends how resourceful you are.
2. You don't actually have to buy games at lauch. I know you want to support the developers and you want to get it while the hype is still fresh and tingling in the air, but it won't kill you to wait a few weeks for the price to drop. The average game has a price drop within the first month, and is worth pittence after a year or so. Make a list of all the game you want, and get them when you see them cheap.
3. Alternatively, find other ways to play the games. Download demos to keep your appitite satisfied for long enough, borrow games from friends and co-workers, threaten your kids with fire and fist if they don't prove how much they love their daddy by toiling the fields and the mines for paynment of rice so that daddy can spend the food money on whores. Pardon me, childhood memories. Anyway, there are always other ways to play games.
I don't have an income at all but I get by. I buy PC games, which means that I don't have to pay as much for the actual game. My local store does 'buy one get one free' on PC preowned that goes right down to pennies. I also download demos before I buy anything, I borrow games from what little friends I have, and I use their steam accounts to play games I don't have, as well. I also try to look for games in one store that could be traded in somewhere else for credit, so that it's there when I actually want to buy a game.
I responded to this in detail because you possess the power of superior lulz, so consider this post win.
I'm in the same position. I've narrowed it down to purchasing COD4, and then some other I'll ask for for christmas. Try selling some stuff you don't use anymore on ebay.
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(# 0) on 10/25/2007 19:10
(# 1) on 10/25/2007 20:10
1. You can always get more money. You can make shit and sell it to morons, you can seek out good bargains and sell them on for a profit, you can take scrap metal to junk yards and get cash for that... It depends how resourceful you are.
2. You don't actually have to buy games at lauch. I know you want to support the developers and you want to get it while the hype is still fresh and tingling in the air, but it won't kill you to wait a few weeks for the price to drop. The average game has a price drop within the first month, and is worth pittence after a year or so. Make a list of all the game you want, and get them when you see them cheap.
3. Alternatively, find other ways to play the games. Download demos to keep your appitite satisfied for long enough, borrow games from friends and co-workers, threaten your kids with fire and fist if they don't prove how much they love their daddy by toiling the fields and the mines for paynment of rice so that daddy can spend the food money on whores. Pardon me, childhood memories. Anyway, there are always other ways to play games.
I don't have an income at all but I get by. I buy PC games, which means that I don't have to pay as much for the actual game. My local store does 'buy one get one free' on PC preowned that goes right down to pennies. I also download demos before I buy anything, I borrow games from what little friends I have, and I use their steam accounts to play games I don't have, as well. I also try to look for games in one store that could be traded in somewhere else for credit, so that it's there when I actually want to buy a game.
I responded to this in detail because you possess the power of superior lulz, so consider this post win.
(# 2) on 10/25/2007 20:13
You have to get the balence right. The grossly obese ones have spent all their money on food, so don't expect great tips.
(# 3) on 10/25/2007 21:34
(# 4) on 10/26/2007 08:20
Yeah, I hear ya. Though my financial obligations are not as widespread as yours, Ed, I'm still feeling the heat when it comes down to my gaming life.
I had to cancel my preorder for The Orange Box to alleviate the cost of the Guitar Hero 3 bundle. Oh well.