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So, after you're done with a game.. do you keep it on the shelf forever even if you never play it again? Or do you sell it or trade it in for the next one?

Ill keep it on hand for awhile untill im sure all urge to play it is gone, then it hits the market

Keep it, selling a game I bought is HERESY!

Unless it's really bad, in which case I destroy it.

It depends,PC games I keep. But console games, I'll usually give to friends(with the console) when I have no use for it anymore(example, I got an XBox 360, gave my old xbox, and games to a friend who only had an N64).

I keep them. Though I did trade in my old xbox games.

I keep all of them. I even have my two PS1 games lying around. The thought of ever selling a game because I'm done with it never crosses my mind. After a while, I get the urge to play it again. But when I bhought a game that's sh*t, I just bring it back to the store to get a refund, or swap it for another game of around the same price.

I keep good games, ones I imagine myself returning to. But only while I still own the console they are for. The rest I give away. The money you get for trade ins is nothing, you could run through it with the petrol you spent getting to the store. What's the point?

Well, if I return them back to the store with the ticket in 14 days, I get a refund. Isn't that normal?

Yeah that's fine. I meant more long term trade ins. If I'm trading in a game soon after I bought it it's usually because I made a mistake in buying it.

whatwhat wrote:Yeah that's fine. I meant more long term trade ins. If I'm trading in a game soon after I bought it it's usually because I made a mistake in buying it.

I traded in a few xbox games (the only games I have ever traded in) and got most of a couple of 360 games., which was fine with me since I was going to buy the new games anyway

I only traded in a few games, and that was only because they were either A) Terrible or B) had no replay value. Of course, this was when I learned that Gamestop only gives you one dollar per game, and so I stopped even bothering with it and started holding on to all my games.

They'll buy that for a dollar?

Wow.. lame.

I have a few games I don't see me touching again, like medal of honor for the wii.. I have killzone 2 but with 3 coming out in a month or so I figured I wouldn't be going back to that either. But for $1, I'll keep em on the shelf

I keep almost every game. Sold only a few ( maybe 1/100 ).
Old games need more shelf space than new ones, but I like to have those playable ( ie machine to run it always set up ) handy.

I trade/sell a lot of games, mainly the ones that I probably won't play again or I have no emotional attachment to (I kept a lot of old PS1/PS2 games because they mean a lot to me, and represent a part of my childhood that I can't get rid of).

Necros wrote:They'll buy that for a dollar?

Wow.. lame.

I have a few games I don't see me touching again, like medal of honor for the wii.. I have killzone 2 but with 3 coming out in a month or so I figured I wouldn't be going back to that either. But for $1, I'll keep em on the shelf

Yeah, I think I traded Killzone 1, Shadow of the Colosus, Megaman RPG, and something else, and they gave me a dollar per game. Only one I really regret was Shadow of the Colosus, but lets face it, that game didn't have much for Replay or story.

I keep games which I like and are good for mementos sake. Which is why I regret selling some games I liked when I was younger.

If someone offered me one dollar for any game I own, I'd tell them to shove it.

The same goes fot cell phones here.

"If I turn in my old one, what will I get for it?"

"You will recieve 1 Euro for your old Cell Phone, sir."

" "

I get more joy out of smashing an old phone, then I can get out of 1 euro.

I've given up on the whole cellphoe/gadget craze. It's just getting stupid now. My contract with CrapT&T is up in 5 months, when that happens I'm switching and I'm taking whatever free phone they offer and that's that. Not worth dropping $300+ on something you're gonna throw away, and will probably break before the contact is up anyway. I swear they're designed to break when there's a couple months left, so you'll get a new phone and get stuck with another 2 year contract, or stuck with an early cancel fee.

I love how AT&T raised their cancel fees a little while ago, when they knew about Verizon taking over iPhones so they can gouge all the kids that jump ship.

I've had the same phone for at least 3 years now, I NEED BUTTONS. I wish touchscreen bs would die already.

I keep the games I really like, I sell the ones I played once or twice and have no desire to play again or no sentimental value for.

I keep them, every once in a while I mosey through them and pull out the ones I no longer want, then give them to my nephews. But other than that: Keep! Keep! Keep! Still have HL1 and expansions, SC1 and Brood War, heck I still have Loom, Sam & Max, Warwind 2 - Human Onslaught and Final Liberation.

Soladrin wrote:Keep it, selling a game I bought is HERESY!

Keep it 99/100 times.
The other 1% is for emergency frisbees.

Forever, usually. If I do sell them, it's not to gamestop, because gamestop is a horrible abomination upon the industry.

I tend to sell games when I get bored of them, this sometimes turns out to be a mistake and i'm trying my best to build up a stack so I don't end up regretting anything.


Also a nice stack of games looks pretty.

I've done the Gamestop trade-in deal once, with a stack of like 8 games that I knew I wouldn't play again (save for Metroid Prime, but the original plan was to use the money to buy Trilogy). When I got a total of like 20 bucks for all of them, and a whopping 54 cents for one of them, I decided to just keep every game I own. There's a point where it just isn't worth it to sell it.

Keep them in general.

I only sell a game if I no longer have a functioning system for it. Or I'm bored of it and I know it has a good value on ebay due to rarity.

I try to keep my games... but if I need the cash I'll sacrifice them for the greater good (a double whopper with bacon, large fries, large soda, and an apple pie).