How Often Do You Trade-In Games?

[Bertha]

I only just recently started trading in games....but that's because for a couple of months money was tight.

[REmaster]

Some games I will definitely keep forever (I.E. anything Resident Evil or Silent Hill), but others are just collecting dust and I will probably never play again...*cough*Castlevania: Lords of Shadow*cough*

Everyone has abandoned you Gabriel

I will never again unless I really dislike it. I sold all my SNES games back in the day an regreted it, and re-bought them all back. I'm big on replaying things.

When the RE1 remake came out, I wanted it so bad. I didn't have enough money for a Gamecube at the time so I pre-ordered it, paid in full, then lost my job at the movie theatre soon after. I got the game, and would just stare at the cover for hours, wishing I had the console to play it. It was then that I realized Gamestop had a *trade* deal.

So, I went to the basement and got all my old video games. I went up to Gamestop with three backbacks full of stuff. A N64 with Super Mario 64, RE2 and Goldeneye...all great games. I also had a bunch of NES games I had since I was a kid like: Black Manta, blades of Steel, Ninja Gaiden, TMNT, Paper Boy, Shadow of the Ninja, Super Mario Bros. 1, 2, 3, Duck Hunt, Castlevania, Contra, Duck Tales...I got the Gamecube, but I regret it still. I need to find Duck Tales BAD. I kept Mike Tyson's Punchout because it was the first game I ever bought when I was three (with my birthday money lol) and Majic Johnson's fast break because me and my dad used to play it together when he was still around.

[Xander Ashford]

Everyone has abandoned you Gabriel

Yes, I have abandoned Gabriel long ago. The game is nothing like the Castlevanias I have enjoyed throughout the years on the DS and SNES.

So, I went to the basement and got all my old video games. I went up to Gamestop with three backbacks full of stuff. A N64 with Super Mario 64, RE2 and Goldeneye...all great games. I also had a bunch of NES games I had since I was a kid like: Black Manta, blades of Steel, Ninja Gaiden, TMNT, Paper Boy, Shadow of the Ninja, Super Mario Bros. 1, 2, 3, Duck Hunt, Castlevania, Contra, Duck Tales...I got the Gamecube, but I regret it still. I need to find Duck Tales BAD.

Is this the DuckTales you're talking about because it memory serves there were actually two of them for the NES? I actually still own this. I even had the original box, manual and everything. I was an OCD child...We threw nothing away that I deemed important...It still probably even has those cards to send away for Nintendo Power or whatever that magazine was called back then.

I think aside from Super Mario that came with the system, that was actually my first video game. And I never even knew that was by Capcom.

EDIT:
I've got to stop reading your posts, REmaster. You always make me feel old...*remembers Nostalgia thread*

[REmaster]

Yep that's it, there was a sequel but I liked the first one better. Damn, didn't know it was by Capcom though....now everything makes sense.

[DarkMemories]

I used to do so quite a bit (even traded my original XBOX and its games for a 360) but these days I can't get myself to get rid of games, not when I bought and resold KOTOR so much that it pains me I'll probably never find a decent copy again.

I won't say Gamestop is as terrible as its made out to be; they are a business and have to make profit somehow. I'm more annoyed by their employees than anything, which generally range from "obvious pothead" to "may I help you sir x15?"

[jimmyjoejangles]

I only trade in games that I really regret having bought. I keep everything else, I h.ave visions of trying to play them again in my twilight years, I have an old tv stashed so hopefully my wife won't make me trash it

also they never give you enough money for the games, except one time I got like thirty or forty bucks for a mariokart ds that I got when I bought a ds for like a hundred bucks, that was a score so I bought RE DS

[Vito]

Watch the television show Hoarders, and you'll be wanting to get rid of everything. Seriously, I watch the show and I have to clean, and then I think to myself "Do I really need this?" I also love the psychology behind the show; they generally bring in a psychologist to help the person mentally work through the cleaning process. Absolutely fascinating that some people just simply cannot let go of things...But I hear you, PracticalAl. What if you do want to actually play something again later down the road? You would have to re-buy it.



Oh, I agree. Generally, you can get some good deals if you wait around. I know GameStops around my area from time to time run a promo of buy 2 used games get one free or something along those lines. Trade-in also is good for finding rarer games...Though they tend not to stick around for too long, obviously.

I just recently tracked down Silent Hill: Origins for the PS2 (which if I'm not mistaken was substantially rarer than the PSP version), and got it for under $20. If you go to eBay and Amazon, most of the PS2 copies are fetching near the $30, and you don't even want to know what a sealed copy costs.

Not to derail the topic too far, but let me just further explain how much GameStop actually pisses me off to no end. When Dead Space: Downfall was new for the Wii, I picked it up at my local GameStop. I paid for a "new" condition game, yet the employee pulled the game out of one of the used game envelopes and put it in the box. Now, maybe I'm old-fashioned, but once a game is open and the original sealed plastic is breached, is the game no longer considered "new?" I most certainly do not consider something that was already opened to be new; I don't care if the game was never put into a machine, it is still NOT new. I actually wrote a letter explaining my frustrations to GameStop's corporate people, and was contacted by the district manager. I could have probably gotten a free giftcard or something out of that if I had actually returned his call.

I hate GameStop with unholy passion.

I seriously only use their services when it is in full benefit to me or there are no other options to acquire a particular game.

Gamestop actually tried to do that shit to me once.

It was when i bought the MGS Collection for PS2 and they wanted me to pay full price for a "opened" copy.

I said "im not paying for a used copy" and they said it was never played, i just stared at them and said "im not paying for a used copy" another worker told the guy attending me that he better just give me a sealed copy and he did (pissed mind you).

I payed and left smiling at him haha.

And to answer the poll if the game isnt Resident Evil, MGS, God of War, Uncharted or a good fighting or zombie game its gonna be traded in.

[Rombie]

^ it's interesting reading your comments about new games and sealed titles and stuff. The only sealed stuff I have all comes from the US and it's never been a specific thing I've tried to collect, it's just what has arrived.

In NZ nothing comes sealed, because everything gets opened for security reasons or to stick the local classifications stickers on them. So "Brand New Games" at EB (which we still have, not yet re-branded to GameStop either) do come from out the back room a lot of the time, but they come not wrapped in anything and the disc hasn't been taken out, but it's not like I can tell if it was a pre-owned if the game is older than say on the first few days of release.

When the store gets down to lower stocks, then the games go into holding sleeves kept in draws behind the counter, so all the pre-owned and the new titles are in draws. Labelled correctly, but still.

This did benefit a friend of mine once though, he brought GTA3 on PS2 maybe four or five years after it came out for $7 from one, and it was supposed to be a pre-owned copy. The guy in the store put a brand new copy in the case for him. But then I figure that someone might come in later to spend say $20 on a "brand new" one only to get the actual second hand copy. Dodgy stuff to me.

Most of the XBox titles come pre-sealed the same as they do in the US because the discs are frequently printed and packaged in the same location, but those sit torn open on the shelves too. I've always noticed it, for years and years now, but never given it a lot of thought.

To top this all off EB in Australia and NZ still has the old 7 day return policy in place, which the US lost years ago. I know plenty of people who've used it to their advantage, but I have no idea what happens to the games that get returned. I guess if they're in almost new condition they probably get sold again as new because no-one made any money off the sale the first time. That would probably piss a lot of people off.

The only time I ever used the return was with MGS4, I purchased a regular edition because I'd missed out on pre-ordering the SE, but then someone didn't come in and pick theirs up so I returned my original copy for a full refund, and then used that money and paid the difference for the SE.

And I say all this under the final point that I hardly ever shop there anymore. There are better alternatives and online stores that I use these days.

[Dracarys]

To me if it isn't sealed it isn't new, though I cannot for the life of me remember the last time I bought a new game from an actual shop. Net prices just too good to be beaten.

[Branden_Lucero]

never. i don't support such a corporate move, especially with GameStop, who tends to buy your used game off you at such a low price, only to turn it around and sell it back for 2-3x more. even if you returned the game the same day it came out.

[Summoner]

I trade games in a lot. If I no longer feel I'll play it, if I don't like it, or if I've completed it. Unless it's something seriously special, I'll trade it in. Figure I may as well score a couple bucks off my next purchase.

[PracticalAl]

Watch the television show Hoarders, and you'll be wanting to get rid of everything. Seriously, I watch the show and I have to clean, and then I think to myself "Do I really need this?" I also love the psychology behind the show; they generally bring in a psychologist to help the person mentally work through the cleaning process. Absolutely fascinating that some people just simply cannot let go of things...But I hear you, PracticalAl. What if you do want to actually play something again later down the road? You would have to re-buy it.

Ah! I've seen that show, it's freaky. Thankfully my OCD keeps my pack rat mentality in check (or in neat little, symmetrical piles, haha..) Even freakier is Animal Hoarders! That show is hard to watch, I feel so bad for those animals..

Exactly. I always think that I may want to play it again.. Even the shitty games I KNOW I will never play again. I'm staring at Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus on my shelf right now. It taunts me with it's shittiness, and yet, I cannot bring myself to trade it.. (Might be because the trade in value would only buy the gas it'd take me to drive to Gamestop. ..)

[Metal Carebear]

I never have but I actually took the time to put together my pile of games I am done with and gonna go see what I can get for them. Hopefully, it means Arkham City is free <3

[aris13]

I rarely trade games on retail stores, since they give you like 20% of the game's price

Same here.

[Alexia_Ashford]

Never. Don't see a reason to. You get sod all for it so I keep everything, even rubbish ones. I might want to play one of them, one day, eventually.