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Game stores have balls
Snarbald:
There is one problem I see about waiting a few years to buy some games: If it has a multiplayer online mode, there's going to be no one left playing it by the time you get it.
SOAPboy:
--- Quote from: tommy on March 27, 2005, 09:27:56 am ---Whats the deal with these games stores, i buy a game for $50.00 one week and i try to trade it in the next week and they want to give me like $8.00, thats Fu!@#$% crazy , what kind of message are they sending to the fools buying these games , that there not worth shi!@#, the next time you go into one of those type game stores ask how much the game is worth if you were to trade it in tomarrow , THATS how much the game is worth, am i the only one thinking this is retarded and robbing the public.
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Because we have to resell it..
Profit
And theres NO WAY (unless its a PC game, which even then is insane, so it must be gamestop or something) that you bought a 50$ game and 1 week later its worth 8$.. EBgames a 50$ title, thats still 50$ is anywhere from 20-35$
PC games lose value the second they leave the store.. CDkeys = the cost of the game..
and theres nothing to say you didnt take it home, pirate it, and take it back to trade it in, guess what happens when that other person trys to get online with that game and your currently playing it.. they get a "CD KEY BEING USED" message..
markb:
Quite often I'm in a shop and I see someone going to buy an item for twice the price that it is in a shop around the corner. Ocassionally I would tell them but now I think screw it, if they can't be bothered to shop around then it's there own damn fault.
Also these people that pay top dollar for things probably subsidise those of us who buy stuff from lower down the food chain.
GGKoul:
EB Games gives you half of their Previously Used Sale Price. Or you can trade in 3 newer games for a new one.
Regarding the PC/Console debate. I prefer to play a game on a PC because usually it has better graphics plus you can get update patches or mods for the game.
But the next generations of Consoles will be allowing the same thing plus they are being designed to be more of an entertainment addition to the household. So they won't be just for gaming.
DaveMMR:
If you think that's bad then I hope you never uncover some old vinyl and sell it to a record store. I worked in a place that gave some poor guy 50 cents a record and turned around and sold it for $5.00 a piece. I could understand the 80's stuff but this guy was also selling some Beatles and Rolling Stones (and those got marked $25.00).
But it the end the seller could've walked and sold it for a fairer price. He should have done some homework.
With games it's generally accepted that someone trades in a few old titles that he/she is sick of to offset the cost of a new game. As everyone else stated, you basically have to eliminate the middleman (i.e. the game store) if you want to make back a good percentage of the money you paid. They just want to make a profit.