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- freezerburn666, on 11/07/2008, -9/+108thepiratebay.org
- inactive, on 11/07/2008, -4/+551. Build a gaming PC.
2. Buy the Orange Box.
3. Buy Left 4 dead.
4. Enjoy 5+ years of gaming goodness. - Rapter09, on 11/07/2008, -2/+39My tip: Quit selling your god damn games to Gamestop and EB. Quit it. Stop it. Don't do it. Ever. Ever. Ever.
You have a right as a consumer to resell your items. Sell it to your friends, to your family, to other people *directly* and make more money back. Use the frigging Buy, Sell & Trade or services like Craiglist. Quit gouging yourself needlessly. That's how you stretch your gaming dollar.
Why in the heck would you go to Gamestop to sell a two-month old game and get $5? When you bought it for $60, you could be reselling it to another person locally for $30 or $40. - scooterbaga, on 11/07/2008, -1/+29gamefly
- benman587, on 11/07/2008, -2/+28www.cheapassgamer.com
- omgwtflawl, on 11/07/2008, -0/+246. Call up gamestop and ask where they are hiding Battletoads.
- Lixie, on 11/07/2008, -4/+24I save money buy renting the short single-player only games (e.g. Bioshock, God of War, Dead Space...etc). Which leaves more room to buy the games with a deep multiplayer like COD4 or Resistance 2.
I tend to play great multiplayer games for many months, so buying makes the most sense. However, I beat most single-player games over a weekend and don't feel compelled to ever play them again, so renting is the preferred option.
Elsewhere, I say money by scouring the internet for deals. Amazon ocassionaly has good game on sale with their Game Deal of the Day. Their Gold Box has games once a month or so as well. But Cheap Ass Gamer is best place to get leaked info on upcoming sales. - inactive, on 11/07/2008, -1/+17Every gamer already knows all of these tips.
"Embrace demos..." Really? Pretty lazy article. - SpectralSounds, on 11/07/2008, -0/+11Actually, it's just about perfectly safe to play on Live! with the new firmware. Just make sure you stealth check everything you get, and don't play games on Live before they are released. All of those idiots playing Gears of War 2 online weeks before it was even out are the ones who will be getting banned.
- sv650touring, on 11/07/2008, -0/+8I thought PC gamers were all pirates. Wait, no, it's actually EA that thinks that.
- rdldr1, on 11/07/2008, -0/+8My library has clay tablets and papyrus scrolls. That's how we roll in Alexandria.
- Narcowski, on 11/07/2008, -0/+6I see no quote.
- oxilite, on 11/07/2008, -0/+5Fallout 3 = much additional time
- fognozzle, on 11/07/2008, -1/+6#6 Play older games. Even the most serious gamer misses a game or two from a previous generation. You can purchase Megaman 9 for the Wii for $10, or purchase Megaman 1-8 +2 arcade games used for the Gamecube for $7.99. It's pretty obvious which is a better deal.
- WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -0/+4I pay for my addiction fair and square =( Though when it comes to that, paying $15/mo for a subscription *will* get you much more gametime for your buck than buying a new game every two weeks.
- Georgy, on 11/07/2008, -0/+3Try buying games like Fallout 3, Oblivion and Fable 2, they last much longer
Fallout 3 is the only reason i haven't bought Gears 2 yet... - vdog, on 11/07/2008, -0/+36. Buy classics from GoG.com.
Good old Games sells older (but still fun) games for under $US10. It has patched them to run under XP and Vista, and best of all, they are DRM free- you buy it, it's yours. No strings attached.
7. Buy online from Steam ,GameTap, or Direct2Drive.
You can often save money by skipping the box, DVD, and manual (not to mention the retail markup and shipping costs), and downloading the game directly to your computer. Some services like Steam may include automatic patching and free bonus content.
8. Go Indie.
There are lots of small, independent developers out there either giving their games away for free, or selling them for $US20 or less. Notable titles include World of Goo, Braid, Audiosurf and the forthcoming Crayon Physics Delux.
Such games can be via Steam, Xbox Live Marketplace, and sites like TIGSource.com, ExperimentalGameplay.com, or IGF.com
9. Download mods.
When it comes to new gameplay experiences, the best bang for your buck is often not to buy another game, but to alter one you already have. Modifications (mods) can range from weapons upgrades, to new levels and new stories, to completely turning it into a different genre entirely (taking, say, a shooter and making it a racing game). ModDB.com is a great site to find mods for almost every game. - xino, on 11/07/2008, -0/+3It's also worth mentioning while it may not be possible to get caught following spectralsounds's advice today, it might be possible in the future.
- Klisk, on 11/07/2008, -0/+3But if you took the extra step and unloaded those 10 games on ebay, you'd probably be sitting on about 300-400 dollars now. Yikes! You could of bought 5 new games and had money left over for a fancy dinner.
Instead you have one game now since you're lazy. That, and you got ripped off. You could of bought a lot of stuff with that money.
There's no such thing as a waste of time when it comes to money.
Unless you're one of those rich white kids I keep hearing about. - inactive, on 11/07/2008, -1/+4Bittorrent and Gamecopyworld.com
- jonborthwick, on 11/07/2008, -0/+3Goozex.com
- CarzorStelatis, on 11/07/2008, -2/+5Buried as inaccurate for missing the most obvious (legal) one: don't buy games when they're just out, buy them 3 - 6 months later. Even a couple of months after a game's release it can be heavily discounted if it isn't selling at blockbuster levels. If you mainly play singleplayer, the number of other people playing the game at the time you buy it doesn't matter.
- mwalker05, on 11/07/2008, -0/+3came here to suggest this as well. just started last week and am thrilled to be getting gears 2 tomorrow. a real money saver.
- Uiaccsk, on 11/07/2008, -0/+2agreed.
- digicanmon, on 11/07/2008, -0/+2I got a 360 just this last year and I hadn't yet picked up Gears of War. I went to a store and saw it used for $45 (Canadian) which seemed a little steep. Instead I bought The Orange Box for $20 and waited until today to pick up Gears. The price was slashed in half now that Gears 2 was the big title.
TL;DR If you know a sequel is coming out soon, wait to buy until after it comes out. - tarrget, on 11/07/2008, -0/+2agreed. eb/gamestop is throttling publishers, developers, etc. by making the extra profit on used sales and, to my knowledge, not sharing a dime of it. consumers should sell their games elsewhere to obtain more potential money per game and to send a message to gamestop that they can no longer dictate the value of used games. their profits for the second quarter were $1.8 billion!
or we could just let digital distribution and the general economic downturn ruin their pyramid scheme. - WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -1/+3It also assumes that "gamer" = "console gamer." Completely useless advice for anyone who prefers PCs.
- WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2Dugg for solid advice and for knowing that "gouging" is not the same as "gauging," unlike the blogger: "...subject to eBay price gauging..."
- spyd3rweb, on 11/07/2008, -0/+2Never buy top of the line hardware, always buy the 2nd best product, usually the performance is only slightly less, but the price is a ton less.
- vizeroth, on 11/07/2008, -0/+2It's simple really:
1) Check ebay to see if it's worth selling there.
2) Wait until you or a friend is having a garage sale
3) Turn it in to EB/Gamestop if neither of the above works.
Oh, and your sports games aren't worth ***** a week after they came out, so ignore 1 and 2 for those and go straight to #3.
The beauty of this system is that EB will take almost any game, as long as it functions, whether they can sell it or not, so you only take them games that you really can't sell yourself.
I agree with Barackalypse, though, Craigslist has become a complete pain in the ass, and no one on there seems to be willing to pay the price you advertised in your listing. I'd rather lose a couple of games at 99 cents on eBay than put up with a bunch of people calling and trying to get the item for 1/4 of the listed price. - SpectralSounds, on 11/07/2008, -3/+5Flash your 360 dvd drive. Buy Verbatim DL-DVD +Rs. Download torrents or nzbs. Burn games and enjoy.
- anexanhume, on 11/07/2008, -0/+2That's right. I NEVER pay the full 60 for a release game. I can't wait to play fallout 3 and fable II, but I'm not paying that much. I've got other games to occupy me until they reach the 40 dollar plateau or someone like Amazon has a deal on them.
On top of that, I never trade/sell games. If it was good enough to buy and play to begin with, I'll probably want to be able to play it again and won't sell it. However, I do buy used games from gamestop when the coupons come up because I know what I'm getting and can return it in 7 days if the disk doesn't work. - WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2Merriam, the context indicates that he meant "gouging" as in "ripping off," not "gauging" as in "appraising or estimating." This is the reason that spell check is a long, LONG way from replacing a human editor - so much of language is highly contextual.
Also, if you knew anything at all about the relative merits of dictionaries, you would have gone with OED instead of M-W, so your authority is shot to begin with ;) - Klisk, on 11/07/2008, -1/+3The main problem with this method is that by the time you get the game, no one will be playing it anymore, and you'll be out of the loop. If gaming is a social experience for you at all, then having a new game at launch is quite important.
If you're an offline gamer, though, and just play single-player by yourself... Then godspeed. I would never pay retail for a single-player game, that's for sure. But multiplayer? I'll drop the full price, yeah. - AcousticBoom, on 11/07/2008, -5/+7Piracy, Piracy, Piracy, Piracy, and Piracy
- jull1234, on 11/07/2008, -0/+2You know a PC gamer who has never pirated a game?
- Barackalypse, on 11/07/2008, -0/+2Have you ever actually dealt with any of the people on Craigslist? I find my posts randomly flagged and deleted, I'll get people calling asking all sorts of basic questions about the item I posted even though I linked the manufacturers specification page, people will agree to buy it then show up and try and negotaite another 25% off the agreed upon price, and all sorts of stories. It has really re-enforced my longstanding view that there are a lot of ignorant dishonorable people in this country, and what's worse thats from a sample of people who can read and probably own a computer.
- Klisk, on 11/07/2008, -0/+2At those prices you should just buy both.
- tobikow, on 11/07/2008, -1/+3Oh, and if you like to play games while high, it saves money to grow your own.
- HolyChimp, on 11/07/2008, -0/+2There's no guarantee the new 'stealth' firmwares are undetectable since MS do the bannings in bulk, but the 360 is so cheap now that as long as you copy more than two new games per 360 then you're still in profit.
And with all those 3 year extended warranties coming to an end for the early adopters I see more people modding their 360s just to save the money they'll need to spend on a new one!
/shameless justification of piracy, even though I personally do it because it's easy, low risk and I'm a cheapskate. - awtripp, on 11/07/2008, -0/+2oh come on fan boys, that was funny.
- openingsound, on 11/07/2008, -0/+1this seems so stupidly obvious to me too.
- tobikow, on 11/07/2008, -0/+1Try binge gaming. if you can cram 20 or so hours, its well worth it to rent.
tip: try caffeine. - megaflyman, on 11/07/2008, -0/+1If you have to trade in a game don't trade it in at gamestop. Try to find a gamecraze or s mon and pop gamming store near you. You will get a way better deal.
- antdude, on 11/08/2008, -0/+1Game mods!!!
- vismund9, on 11/08/2008, -0/+1rapidshare
- ran24, on 11/08/2008, -0/+1Don't buy DLC. What a waste of money, and it keeps getting worse and worse.
- Sparuuto, on 11/08/2008, -0/+1"5 things any 'geek-gamer' worth their shootan already knows."
- 13tongimp, on 11/08/2008, -0/+1Without bringing Gamefly into it, this article is useless.
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