Are you a collector? Or a serial trader? Maybe you’re full of charity? Or perhaps just a hoarder?
You can only choose one option, so pick the one you do most often. And then explain why you do it in the comments below.
What Do You Do With Your Old Games?
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41 responses to “What Do You Do With Your Old Games?”
I’ve occasionally traded games in, but rarely. It’s got to have been over a year since I’ve played it, or wanted to play it, before I’ll consider getting rid of it. Any game I like, I tend to keep.
I generally keep my games, but some games that make me bored/angry or I just don’t care for, I trade in. Fortunately, I’ve done this only thrice.
I have traded in most and keep some I love (GTA, Shadow of the Colossus).
But I realise trading in is a mugs game. I have never ebay’ed anything in my life. Is it particularly difficult to get started?
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Not sure if the process has changed since I signed up 5yrs ago but its about as hard as signing up to xbox live or psn, with a bit of waiting involved for eBay to deliver a letter. Same goes for Paypal, which you will need to be a seller, but which is really handy.
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Cheers mate. I should get off my bum and get it done.
Also need to clear out some DVD’s as well that I never watch (although I know I probably will get bugger all for them).
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I tend to hoard, but only cause I’m too lazy to do anything about my collection. If it did reach a point it was taking up to much space I’d probably just trash the stuff rather than going through the effort of selling it.
I left a lot of stuff behind when I left my parents place a few years ago, and I haven’t picked up enough new stuff since to worry about space.
At this point a may never have to worry about it. As a primarily PC gamer I’ve switched almost entirely to digital distribution. I have a small console collection, but that doesn’t even take up a single shelf yet.
Wow that is really surprising, at the time of my comment the ‘keeping’ percentage is a whooping 83% with the recycled percentage at only around 13%
Personally I went through a period where I’d trade my games in but even though I’m not one to revisit an old game all that often I’ve regretted it a little later on. I think I’m also pretty particular about what games I buy so tend to want to keep a hold of them as I enjoyed playing them.
With stats like this it is hard to understand how the publishers cry fowl over second hand sales. Surely there is more than enough markup to cover 10%-15% of stock being recycled.
Fully depends on quality.
If i believe that a game was well worth the money I paid for it then i will gladly keep it for all of eternity.
If i believe it was good enough that i want to play it again (not that i will) then I’ll keep it.
if however it is something that i have no real feelings for then I’ll trade it in.
i tend to be a game library for a lot of my friends as well so i keep a wide range of games. that said i do have a few games in my shelf now that im not exactly thrilled with and would trade instantly if they were actually worth anything
I generally keep them… I’ve traded in stuff I don’t play / can’t stand / was crap, but I usually do that in groups of about 10 or 15 games at a time.
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Dude, how many rubbish games do you buy?!?
Read some reviews first? 😛Yeah, impulse buys can be rather disappointing, no?
Then again, Chrono Trigger on the Nintendo DS was an impulse buy for me, and I couldn’t be more thrilled.
I’ve got two kids and I fool myself that any game that interested me is bound to be fascinating to them several years from now when consoles are all holographic and interactively create the perfect gaming experience every time…
Surely they’ll want to play old Amiga and Saturn games rather than the newest LEGO games, right? 🙂
If it’s a game I love, like World Grand Prix, Burnout 3, or Rayman 2, I’ll hold onto it forever.
If I get sick of it after a couple of weeks, I’ll trade it in.
Displayer / Pack Away person reporting for duty…
PS3/360/Wii/PSP are on display
PS2/PSone are packed away, along with a few other oddities, as well as all the Limited Edition crap that I’ve picked up, love my crap!
Need more shelves!
I never sell or trade in my games. Usually they get boxed up and put in storage when I’m cleaning. They usually stay there until I give them away to friends. So I’ve got a pretty big collection of games and consoles but its not really a collection collection.
I only really keep current generation stuff on display. Right now I’ve got two XBOX 360’s, a PS3 and a Wii plugged in with a few DVD racks full of games (although I keep the GameCube games in the racks with the Wii games). Once you throw controllers into the mix there’s just no room for things like the SNES.
I keep them ALL and have them on my shelf and its beautiful. I never know when I want to go back to something for fun or nostalgia.
I’ve traded in ONE game in my life, Saints Row 2 on PS3.
Then 2 weeks later I bought it back.
Never again <3 <3
My fiancee and I have a giant collection. She never sells anything, but if I don’t like a game or never see myself ever replaying it, I’ll usually part with it. We have the vast majority of our collection on display, but it’s getting harder as it gets bigger. Collectors/Limited/Special editions make it a little more challenging with their unconventional shapes too.
I hoard. I don’t have a big collection, but I don’t trade because the trade in values are ridiculous. It’s not hurting me keeping them, anyway. 🙂
I used to play then trade but after I had to (well I didn’t have to but I did) re-purchase games I had stupidly traded I will generally keep them now.
I voted keep them as I’m new to console gaming, and PC games aren’t as easy to transfer.
That said recently I traded in a swag of DS games for a few Wii and PS3 ones. I know trading is the devil, but it’s just so easy compared to selling individually and posting them all over the country.
I would have voted ‘display them’ but i don’t have anywhere to display them at the moment, so they go into storage at different locations around the house.
But i do like to revisit old games, thats always fun.
I try to make sure I only get games that I’ll want to play more than once, so I keep them. Every now & then will fire up Dosbox/computer running XP/PS2 so I can go back.
I love my PS3, but I also love me some Psychonauts/Sands of Time/San Andreas/X-Wing! 🙂
I keep them on my shelf because the games I have are so bad no one will take them off my hands.
I’ve got all my old crap still. I’d get rid of my SNES, N64 stuff etc but I don’t really know what to do with it… things like ebay would probably be more effort than it’d be worth…
I’ve never even considered selling a game, because as far as I could ever see you only get a fraction of what you paid for it so there’s no point. May as well keep it and have something to play later.
Then I became a collector and now I have to keep everything just for the sake of keeping it as well 😛
Although I’m not above selling things I end up with duplicates of. Don’t need more than one of the same game.
Since I’m predominately a PC gamer – most of my games get installed once and then put into storage. If they are particularly good, i’ll rip the .iso onto one of my hard drives so I can install it again later.
Console/handheld games usually get traded unless they are spectacular/have good MP
I keep ’em and probably store it into a storage when I no longer play them for a long time.
So at the moment only PS3/PSP games are on my shelves, my PS2 games are in the storage. But the storage is never far away, so whenever I feel like playing PS2, I don’t have to go to the garage and scour through all the junk we’ve store there.
But yea, NEVER sold my games, because I’ve always research about games before I buy. And if I do happen to come across a crappy game, I’ll return it within a week. So my collection is devoid of crappy games.
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