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Re: My gaming dilema
« Reply #40 on: April 30, 2009, 12:54:24 PM »

To this day I haven't a clue what happened to my FF7.  Did one of you guys inherit it through the magic of Dirty Santa?  That's happened a few times, where I'm all like "WHAT THE HELL I SWEAR I NEVER SOLD THAT GAME" and after a few hours of searching I'm all like :nyoro~n:

It's also entirely possible I just dumped it on Stiv.
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Re: My gaming dilema
« Reply #41 on: April 30, 2009, 01:12:06 PM »

I wish making FF7 run on my PC didn't require dark magic video driver fiddling.
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Re: My gaming dilema
« Reply #42 on: April 30, 2009, 01:17:25 PM »

There is an entire forum about it. All the answers are there. There's a wiki too that I forget the URL of, but it's on that site somewhere.
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Re: My gaming dilema
« Reply #43 on: April 30, 2009, 01:26:42 PM »

...

I also wish that the prices of current PC games were about 50% less?  (Can you do that wish too, without piracy?)
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Re: My gaming dilema
« Reply #44 on: April 30, 2009, 01:40:22 PM »

I can only do wishes related to FF7 :[
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Re: My gaming dilema
« Reply #45 on: April 30, 2009, 01:40:39 PM »

It is my blessing and my curse.
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Re: My gaming dilema
« Reply #46 on: April 30, 2009, 01:45:55 PM »

I wish for more bombs!
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Re: My gaming dilema
« Reply #47 on: April 30, 2009, 01:54:02 PM »

I've never found myself missing a game that I sold or traded in. However, several of my games have mysteriously vanished over the past decade (probably partially due to having moved at least once per year during said decade) and those are the games I find myself wanting to play.
I have. Too late I realized the foolishness in trading in games, even ones that were medicore. But never again!
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Re: My gaming dilema
« Reply #48 on: April 30, 2009, 03:39:58 PM »

It's seller's remorse.  It goes away after the shock of non-ownership passes.

I mean, for the longest time I actually cared about not having FF8.  FF8.
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Re: My gaming dilema
« Reply #49 on: April 30, 2009, 04:06:45 PM »

I've sold or traded a lot of games over the years, but I hang on to a few truly bad games just because I want to keep a collection going for some reason. There's no reason why I should still have Suikoden IV or Tactics, or Wild Arms 4, 5, and Alter Code F. (If I had WA2, it would also be on that list, but the sheer fact that it's the one I'm missing from my collection just bugs me.)
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Re: My gaming dilema
« Reply #50 on: April 30, 2009, 05:16:27 PM »

As far as I can tell, I'm pretty well the only person, ever, to have owned a copy of The Legend of Alon D'ar. Note that I said owned. I traded that fucker in, and hard. Best free* 16 dollars worth of credit I ever made.

*Ubi Soft had a deal, buy two of three RPGs (Jade Cocoon 2, Grandia 2, LoAD), get the third free.
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Re: My gaming dilema
« Reply #51 on: April 30, 2009, 05:28:35 PM »

Shit, that third game may as well be Hydlide, I'd buy the other two anyway.
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Re: My gaming dilema
« Reply #52 on: April 30, 2009, 05:36:27 PM »

Yeah, that actually upset me to realize you were talking about a gone deal.
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Re: My gaming dilema
« Reply #53 on: April 30, 2009, 07:15:17 PM »

Just bought TWEWY again after trading it in last year. I wonder if I got the same copy!

EDIT: No.  :sadpanda:
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Re: my gaming dilema
« Reply #54 on: May 21, 2009, 08:01:28 AM »

I used to trade stuff in, back in my poorer days. My brother still does it; he actually owns something like 2 games at a time, and they're always brand new.

I swore I'd never tell anyone this, but:

The thing that turned me off of trade-ins forever was this.

Many moons ago, I found a PS2 copy of Rez at Gamestop. It was already several years old, but was still priced at $29.99. I saved up for it and bought it.

I took it home, loved it, played it over and over. I considered it the jewel of my game collection, such as it was.

Four years later, I'm married. I desperately want my wife to share one of my main interests with me, and she already kind of plays games, but we never play anything together, and I really want to. (For some reason, she won't even try MMOs; she's a Tetris-Sims-Columns kind of gamer.)

I'm totally broke, so I decide I'll trade some games in and hopefully pick up something decent for PS2 that's simultaneous 2-player for like $20. I go through my collection, pick out a few choice games, and call Gamestop to check trade-in rates.

I end up trading 5 games, INCLUDING Rez to get $20. It's fucking rediculous. They gave me SIX FUCKING DOLLARS for Rez.

Now, two years later, whenever I go to that Gamestop, I see my copy of Rez on the shelf. I can't believe it's been there this long. It sits in the used section, accusing me, my public shame.

They gave me $6... but they're selling it for $30.

I'll never trade a game in again.
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Re: my gaming dilema
« Reply #55 on: May 21, 2009, 08:04:03 AM »

(For some reason, she won't even try MMOs; she's a Tetris-Sims-Columns kind of gamer.)

 :wat:

Because MMOs are accessible, casual titles.  Not ridiculous hardcore timesinks for... well, frankly, for the unmarried.

Who turned your brain backwards?
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Re: my gaming dilema
« Reply #56 on: May 21, 2009, 08:04:58 AM »

Not to continue to bump this thread, but what if there were a used game store that 1) knew the true value of games, and 2) gave you that value as trade-in credit, minus like $5? (Down to games that are actually worth $5, where you get the whole value?)

I've thought about starting a game store like that, but I'm sure there's almost no way to make it profitable. I think our local Gamestop only survives because it's part of a chain, and they probably ride their Christmas rush profits through the rest of the year.

But wouldn't it be great if there were ONE place where you could get a fair value for trade-ins? Wouldn't it make it so much more worth it?
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Re: my gaming dilema
« Reply #57 on: May 21, 2009, 08:05:44 AM »

Well sure, but there are more casual MMOs, and lots of married couples play together! Plus, I don't want to get fully sucked into an MMO if she's not going to be there with me; I'm not about to let one compete with my wife for my attention.
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Re: my gaming dilema
« Reply #58 on: May 21, 2009, 08:06:19 AM »

But wouldn't it be great if there were ONE place where you could get a fair value for trade-ins? Wouldn't it make it so much more worth it?

This is not something that is unique to gaming.  Have you ever tried taking stuff to Half Price Books?

eBay or stfu.
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Re: my gaming dilema
« Reply #59 on: May 21, 2009, 08:07:59 AM »

Uhh. Yeah.  That's how GameStop works.  They're a scam.  They'll pay you a quarter of the value of something for magical GameStop funbux that ony work in their store.  This way they can sell the same game a dozen times in the same community.  It's like high-stakes renting!

Yeah.  No.  You are better off trading games with friends when you've got a stack of stuff you don't want anymore.

Also people who compete against GameStop tend to disappear/get bought out.  Eventually you're going to get people trying to game the system if your prices aren't on par with the competitors.  Buy low, sell high...  You could talk to Vance on #finalfight to see what kind of magical burning hoops you have to jump through to run a game store these days.
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