Do you keep or sell/trade your games?

[Gikoku]

Obviously self-explanatory, but yeah, what do you do with your games when the life has been inevitably sucked out of them for awhile?

As of the past 10 years I've gotten into the habit of just hanging onto every game I purchase... even when they suck big meaty balls. It's gotten to the point now where I kinda like to collect them en masse via store bargain bins. Seriously, you'd be surprised what gems you might find in those things.

The reason I got into keeping them was because back when I traded/sold nearly every game I had once I beat it, there would always be that moment down the road where I go... "Ya know, I feel like playing some Tekken 3 right now.. oh, right, I don't have it anymore." Yeah, I got pretty sick of that. And good luck if the game you wanted to get again ended up going out of print or there just weren't any fairly priced copies anymore.

 

[Quistrix]

I don't sell them for the very reason that you said. There comes a time when I'll randomly feel like playing a game that I haven't played in a long time. Sure, I could get some of them on the cheap from Amazon or whatever but I'd rather not have to spend money and then have to wait for it to be delivered to satisfy a temporary itch.

I still have all my old N64, PS1, PS2 and Xbox games. I think it's my FF, LOZ and Tomb Raider games that I crave randomly most often. I'm glad I have them readily available along with their respective consoles to play them on. The use of emulators sounds okay but nothing beats the real thing. <3

All that said, Dynasty Warriors 7 was a terrible game and it hurts to even look at it on my shelf. There's been a few games like that but I still haven't been able to get rid of them. Once they're in my life, once they're a part of me... it's hard to let them go. :'(

 

[Dark Drakan]

I sell most of my games besides ones I plan to replay over & over (Red Dead Redemption & Skyrim) though games I play more than once or twice are very rare. I mean no point in them merely taking up shelf space and collecting dust when I can use them to fund the purchase of other games.

 

[Tsuyu]

Plus you get ripped off so horribly at places such as GAME.

 

[Dark Drakan]

Plus you get ripped off so horribly at places such as GAME.

Yeah trade in prices are a joke and I havent done it for years. I remember getting MGS 2 for £38 the day it came out and completed it in a couple of days and took it back to trade in and they gave me £12 for it. Literally took it out of my hands for the £12 and stuck a £35 sticker on it and put it on the shelf in front of me. I never trade in a game again and never set foot in that shop again. Also remember another trade in place before it making me trade 3 games for Perfect Weapon on Playstation. I had no knowledge of the game & was young, it just had a decent cover & I wanted a new game. The game was the worst game ive ever played and the 3 games I traded in were all brilliant, left a sour taste in my mouth for years.

 

[Tyloric]

I used to sell my games but eventually I always found myself in the situation "I would really like to play... ****. "

So now I keep them.

Plus, selling to game shops (like Gamestop) is a total ripoff unless they're having trade-in bonuses.

 

[queenofdisco]

This thread makes me incredibly sad... mainly Tsuyu's post as gamestation has closed and been replaced with game in my area.

I used to horde my games, till I realised I could sell them so now I trade them in. I only have 24 games thats on 360, Wii & PC. And two of them I can't trade in. I usually only keep games I like to play, Xbox wise I still have all the Mass Effect & Ass Creed games, don't have Gear 1 & 2 first one broke so I threw it away and Gears 2 wont work at all via marketplace download or disc which bugs the hell out of me as its my favourite one of the three.

I'd trade some of my Wii games in but they're hiding behind aload of books because I never play them so they're not doing any harm. And my PC games are hiding behind my manga collection and there's only the one game (Sims medieval) I'd like to trade in for that but no where that will accept pc game trade ins.

Edit: Actually I might have more, I think I have Halo 1, The Summoner & God Of War 1 on PS2/Xbox hidden away under my bed. :blink: I don't have a PS2 anymore though... and I don't like Halo.

 

[cheezMcNASTY]

When a game I want is coming out, nothing is safe from resale if I can get $8+.

But the games that I can't sell... it's kind of a relief knowing that I'll have them around to replay at any time. Good examples of these are original Xbox games, or that digital copy of Halo: Reach that came with my Xbox Slim. <3

 

[Angel]

Sell 'em on ebay if there is really no chance of me ever playing them again or I keep them to make my collection look less pathetic. If anyone were to sell my Elder Scrolls games I would most likely have to hunt them down and gut them like fish...no one is allowed to touch those games.

Have never traded games in at a shop - the prices, as others have mentioned, are disgusting. The only time I would deem it as possibly ok is when they have those "trade in games W, X and Y and get game Z plus something else kinda cool for £5" - but even then, only when the games they want traded in are crappy and I have no use for them.

 

[SelfAppointedGunslinger]

No...not really. The only time I've ever sold was Mass Effect 2 and that was only because I had two copies, cashier at HMV was like: "Wut? You don't like Mass Effect?" Before I promptly explained that I had another copy waiting at home for me to get stuck into.

Apart from that one instance I've never sold/traded in any game that I've bought or ever felt compelled to for that matter. A lot of the games I buy are the ones worth playing again or one's with a multiplayer that I play on a regular basis e.g Battlefield 3.

 

[Skotekal]

Never sold a single game. I hold on to everything. EVERYTHING.

Only madmen sell their games.

 

[Aions]

I keep 80% the rest i give to my brother in-law. I just recently traded in about 6 Wii games for all 3 of the Uncharted games, it was a 3 pack that came with all the DLC and stuff - totally worth it