I have a friend who, for the most part, will only buy new games. Him and I were at our local gamestop a couple weeks ago and I was there to get Call of Duty 4. While we were looking through the games, we decided to get Rainbow Six Vegas 2. I went straight to the used game section, while he went straight to the new game section. The game was probably 10 dollars more, but hey that's always ten dollars I can spend on some PS2, Xbox, or Gamecube game right?
While we were waiting in line, we started talking to the cashiers about upcoming games, Too Human, Gears 2, Rock Band 2, Diablo 3, Starcraft 2, etc... Then I mentioned that my friend only buys used games. To this my friend replied,
"Well, I don't like to take any chances I like to buy new games because I know that I'm the first to own it."
But, for me I could care less. I've been going to Goodwill, Salvation army, and Pawn Shops ever since I was a little kid and that's where I get a lot of my most prized possesions like my Epiphone Les Paul Standard 2000, my Line 6 75 watt amp, my Xbox 360, and all my vinyls ranging from AC/DC and the Beatles to Led Zeppelin and The Who and countless games for PS2, GC, PS1, SNES, NES, 360, etc.
After my friend was finished, the Gamestop worker basically told him that a guy came in last night and bought Battlefield Bad Company new for $60 and returned it a couple hours later and only got like $30. But if it would have been used, he could have brought it back and gotten all his money back.
Most of the game I get used are in good condition anyway.
Also I have the Gamestop card that saves me 10% on used games too. So that's cool.
Anyway, Used games > New Games in my opinion, what do you guys think?
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I know what you meant, but you may want to edit that.
Also, I'm always a little skeptical of used games, but I'm a sucker for deals.
I've done it dozens of times when I've bought a used game and then, when I didn't like it, have turned around and sold it to other stores for more than I paid for it because they think its new.
Also, in the first few paragraphs, you mixed up "used" and "new" several times, makes it a little hard to read at first. Just a tip.
One more thing aboutused games, though- sometimes they don't work. I just got a scratched-up copy of Downhill Domination from Gamestop.com and it won't load Career mode. Just freezes. Wrote an e-mail to customer service, but I still don't know what they plan to do about it.
Plus most new release games are 54 or 56 bucks used so you only save 5 bucks. Its better to spend that extra 5 - 10 buck so that the people who made the game get your money.
Not true. I've gotten some fucked up discs from Gameshit before
Wow, you are a tool. Your buddy likes new games because we've all seen what people CAN do to their copies before trading them in.
I only buy new or off ebay where the seller has decent pictures because I need to ensure that the pages of the manual and/or the case wasn't used to wipe the previous owners ass after eating mexican food. I've seen plenty of used copies of games at Gamestop that require a hazmat team to handle without catching diseases.
For real though, buy them new, and buy them from somewhere other than gamestop/eb.
I'm a tool so what.
Recently I have bought Shadow of the Colossus, Prey, Quake 4, Sly 1, Jak 1, Ratchet and Clank 1, Beyond Good and Evil, Lost Planet, The Orange Box, God of War 1 and 2, and a load of other games and they have all ben in good condition.
By the way, I edited this blog for all you Harvard Scholars lol.
Buyer beware?
The two Goozex users I've dealt with so far have been very cool, especially considering the fact that I mixed up the labels and sent the wrong games to the wrong people.
I do prefer new games, but as Hoodie said, I'll instantaneously buy any Atlus/NIS/niche type of games that you KNOW are going to disappear in a month or so, plus I feel I'm supporting some of the smaller, but very awesome companies. Huge hit titles like Super Mario Galaxy and such, while super awesome, I wait to buy until they're like $20 - $30, or cheap at a place like Cash Converters, because you know they'll be around for a long time. The whole concept of Used games and all at EB Games (I'm from Canada) is pretty terrible, as if they actually made the Used games CHEAP enough, it might be worth it.
hell i've played through wind waker like 5 times now...
and i've seen some games that are completely destroyed when ppl trade them in.. i just don't feel like going through the hassle of returning it for another one.. i'm lazy.. i'd rather spend a few extra bucks to get something that i know wasn't trashed by someone..