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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.
You have to get the balence right. The grossly obese ones have spent all their money on food, so don't expect great tips.
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.