Game stores have balls

[tommy]

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.

[SirPeale]

Don't trade it at a game store.  Sell it on Amazon.Com.  When you trade in your old games in at GameStop and the like, they're going to give you bottom dollar, so they can turn around and resell it @ top dollar.

[tommy]

The point is there should be somebody making sure people dont get robbed, how can they mark down the games so damn much, i wont  buy games there anymore and not to mention  there hurting themselves   how do they expect someone to buy a game and get nothing in return if they want to trade it in, i guess we all learned to get ripped off and like it these days.

[SirPeale]

That's what happen when you play by their rules.  If you want to trade in a game, that's fine, but they're only going to give you $8.00 for it, even if you spent $50 for it yesterday.  It's even worse with older stuff.  Wow...a whopping quarter for a N64 cart, then they turn around and sell it for ten bucks.

Sell it on Amazon.Com.  They take a small percentage, you get a decent sum.

[Daniel270]

Couldn't you post in the

[Grasshopper]

Personally I never buy PC games when they first come out anyway. They're a complete rip off. I'd rather wait a couple of years and buy them for a third of the price or less when they're re-released on budget. Buying older games also means you can make do with less powerful hardware.

It's even worse for console games because console manufacturers control the market. Basically they sell the consoles at an artificially low price (sometimes even at a loss) and then inflate the price of games to compensate. I'd prefer to pay the genuine market rate for both the console and the games.

[tommy]

I do remember one game that i got a good trade in on re4 , it went for more then the gamecube figure that one out.   

[paigeoliver]

I won't even BUY consoles anymore, not when the console version of a game is $40+ and the PC version is $9.99 at the SAME STORE at the SAME TIME.

[cholin]

Im not one to turn but all the consoles that run off CDs should price their stuff a little better considerring that with a 2 minute search and a 20-minute download you can have the origional copy of a game.  Especially when you can rent the game for $4.99 CAD and copy it...Id rather spend 85 bucks on a dvd burner than 70 bucks for a game...

[shmokes]

It really is kinda funny.  Even with brand new games there is a significant difference in price between PC and console.  For example, the excellent game Psychonaughts, which will be released in April, can be preordered right now.  $50 for Xbox and PS2, $30 for the PC.  I guess this is just because there's no PC manufacturer that gets a royalty on each copy of the game.

Consols definitely have their place, though, IMO.  They provide a much more social experience than the PC.  There's something to be said for being able to get a room full of buddies and play a videogame on a bigscreen TV.  Plus, Nintendo doesn't release their games on PC.  In fact, the game libraries for consoles absolutely dwarf the PC (I'm talking about brand new, major releases) - most publishers simply don't release their games for the PC anymore.  Plus, a console that will play Halflife 2 well costs $150, while a PC that will play it well costs $2,000. 

There are tradeoffs, for sure, but there is certainly room in my life for consoles and PCs.  Hell, for 100 bucks you practically need an excuse not to own a Gamecube, if you ask me.

[paigeoliver]

I just plug my laptop into the TV and play the same games on the TV. Sure you lose out on SOME titles, but you will NEVER find a gaming platform (other than like some of the aborted platforms that only had like 30 games), that you will be able to completely exhaust your fun without running out of time or money first.

X-Box, Playstation, Nes, 3D0, PC, Atari 7800, Neo Geo, whatever you pick there is so much out there. My closest thing to a console these days is my Neo Geo MVS cabinet, I am up to like 25 cartridges for it now.

[RetroJames]

I rarely to barely buy ANYTHING retail.  It is always a sucker's bet.  I also never "trade-in" anything back to a store. Sell it yourself.

[paigeoliver]

Also, if you are simply willing to live slightly behind the PC gaming curve (which is STILL way ahead of the console gaming curve), then you can pick up all those GAME OF THE YEAR titles a few years later for $10 and it will come with all the expansion packs, and they will play like a dream on a $50 video card.

[TalkingOctopus]

Also, if you are simply willing to live slightly behind the PC gaming curve (which is STILL way ahead of the console gaming curve), then you can pick up all those GAME OF THE YEAR titles a few years later for $10 and it will come with all the expansion packs, and they will play like a dream on a $50 video card.

Yeah for the most part this is what I do too and it is awesome.

[DrewKaree]

The point is there should be somebody making sure people dont get robbed

I know it's the heat of the moment talking.  What you just said would break down like this on the street:

Mugger:  Gimme yer wallet dude
You:  Here you go....don't shoot me!
Mugger:  (slips you a ten spot) Keep this and go get yourself something pretty!

You're not being "robbed".  You're free to take your "business" elsewhere, like Peale is pointing out.  There are OTHER avenues you can take, you're simply pissed that you can't do a simple trade without getting what you percieve to be fair market value.  If people didn't take what they offered, and more did what Peale suggested to you, more than likely they would prolly up their price. 

how do they expect someone to buy a game and get nothing in return if they want to trade it in, i guess we all learned to get ripped off and like it these days.

You weren't OFFERED "nothing in return", you were offered $8.  Feeling like that's a ripoff is valid, but all they did was practice currently accepted market tactics. 

If you REALLY want to feel like you got the hosing of your life, do what my mom did.  Buy a BRAND SPANKING NEW CAR, decide to trade it in with 376 miles on it, and get dinged TEN EFFING GRAND!!!! 

Did I help?  Does losing $42 bucks seem like a drop in the bucket compared to the stupidity of some other markets?  If you don't accept the current market tactics, not only are there ways around it, YOU are the sucker for not working those avenues!

[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]

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.

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.

 

[Gunstar Hero]

If you trade in a game before we have to sell it for nothing, you can get something for it. But once that game starts sliding downwards in price, you may as well just keep it, unless you're really REALLY done with it. 

Games are technology, technology holds no value. The older it gets, the cheaper it is.