The box was a bit fucked up, buy you couldn't tell if it had in fact been openned. That is kind of why I asked the man.Quote:
Originally Posted by The_Meach
The box was a bit fucked up, buy you couldn't tell if it had in fact been openned. That is kind of why I asked the man.Quote:
Originally Posted by The_Meach
The price of used games is sometimes unreasonable, but just wait it out. The only games I ever buy on the first day are Silent Hill games and MGS games with the exception of a few RPGs here and there.
I was at EB a little earlier preordering Fable and ESPN NFL 2k5. I had a couple Circuit City games left to get rid of; the guy told me I'd get $20 if I put it down on MGS3, and I could move it to another game. I still wasn't sure, so he showed me a video.
About midway through he asked, "So, did you ever play the old Sega version?" :bang:
The original post is hilarious, btw. :)
He showed you a video of how to move your preorder money...?Quote:
Originally Posted by Schlep
LOL thats what I thought too... then I remembered we got a Fable video to show people. ^_^Quote:
Originally Posted by Roufuss
I buy used games all the time at EB with my EDGE (EDGE!) card. If a new game is 50+tax, I'll get it used for 41+tax because it's 45 with 10% off. Since I don't really value the actual case (as opposed to the artwork piece, which I may or may not care about), it's cool. Plus they often have deals where you can buy 4 used games all at 30 percent off, so if you bought all games that would be 50 new, you would pay about 35 for each. Granted, I usually used that deal for the cheap stuff that I wanted to try, but anyway...
Is that the reverse of what your first point was. If Demand > supply games come very close to new game value, while supply > demand means companies are selling it at a lower price to sell games. While I am stumped at why it occurs most pc games seem to be dropped to half price within 3 months of release.Quote:
Originally Posted by diffusionx
Very odd to say the least. Why the sudden change in business practices?
One of my favorite questions-
New game comes out. One week later starts the question- when will this game drop in price?
I've been polite about it so far but it's getting closer and closer every time to me pulling a date out of a hat. "Oh, that's slated to drop to $30 August 18th", or something. Temptation has been resisted every time but it's getting tougher with each version of the question.
James
Nobody is buying PC games nowadays. Im not making it up when I say the PC game market is very very sorry right now. Ninety percent of the games on the shelf are crummy $20 shovelware, and the only games people care about are the mega-huge ones, like Doom 3 or Half-Life 2. Even games like Unreal Tournament fall off the radar like a few weeks after release. Ive been working at EB, sadly, for the past few weeks and I cant say Ive sold more than 3 of any given PC game (zero of FarCry and UT2004, and those are supposed to be GOTY nominees). Probably the best-selling, or at least the one with the most buzz lately, has been City of Heroes but its not like thats flying off the shelf either. Ive sold 2 of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Damian79
PC gamers like the point and laugh at console games and they like to deride developers who cater their games for consoles but the fact is that consoles are where the real money is at.
So which is it? Two or three? ;pQuote:
Originally Posted by diffusionx
Yeah, PC gaming has been down since the new millenium. And yes, I deride Ion Storm for making Deus Ex 2 what it is--a disappointing game, but that's for another day.