Do you Pay full price for games?

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The Commissar

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I know some of you don't pay ANYTHING for your games, so you don't need to post with smug superior comments (Ratty I'm looking at you)

Anyways. I was just wondering, who out there pre orders, or pays full price for computer games? I've only really ever bought a game right when it came out twice, both were stinkers (Black and White, Lionheart) which has kind of slanted me towards NEVER PAYING FULL PRICE EVER. Actually I did buy Lords of the Realm 3 right when it came out (which also sucked) but it was $20. If more games came out in the $30 price range initially, I know I'd buy them earlier instead of hovering around like a software vulture waiting for discounted used copies to appear. What about you guys?
 
Commissar Lauren said:
I know some of you don't pay ANYTHING for your games, so you don't need to post with smug superior comments (Ratty I'm looking at you)
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In fact, change that from "don't need to post" to into your posts will be vatted. We don't like warez talk of any kind or form here, that's been made clear before.

As for me, I'm a bargain bin person, and often way, way behind on what's new in the gaming world. Don't care, a game is still good even if it's outdated, and I don't have to update my computer as often.

I only pick out a few new releases, but I'm generally down there in the 10 EUR range.

Hell yeah, cheap-ass.
 
I agree.... I'm more of a bargin bin person... but if i think a title looks promising, and if my computer can handle it... I'll buy the new game at full price.


and if it's fallout related I used to buy it new... (after FT:BOS i stopped doing that, thankfully, i rented a copy of FO:POS and BROKE that copy before dropping it in the night deposit box.)
 
I sometimes buy a new game or two every month, but otherwise I'll use the six month rule. Wait six months, get a good impression by those who did pay full price (and give a couple of more months for the real impressions to come through), and if the game is still going strong, you're there enjoying it. If it's a dud, then you wasted nothing as you waited to see the problems and the activity around the game.

It's far cheaper, and leads to less disappointment.
 
I usually buy from the bargain bin, or at least a few months after the release to be able to read up on the title. Never pre-ordered a game in my life. Have bought some pretty much the day they were released though, like Diablo 2 and Battlefield: 1942.
 
Honoured Member of the Bargin Bin Boys. :P

Only exceptions I ever made were for Age Of Empires 2 and for its brilliant expansion (The Conquerors). Bought those the day they hitted the shelves. And I never regretted that, because - as we all know - those are exceptional games.
 
I'm a big fan of abandonware games: games so old that they're free online. Like my Carmen SanDiego collection, that I still play! Other than that, I'll give the game a few months or so, try it out, but never really pay full price. I did, however, pay full price ($35) for Max Payne 2 when it came out.
 
King of Creation said:
I did, however, pay full price ($35) for Max Payne 2 when it came out.
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Full price over there is $35?
Full price for PC games over here is something in the region of £40, that's like $70!
And, in answer to your question Lauren, I very rarely pay full price for games, I usually wait for a decent offer on them, or 'til they've gone down to about £10-20 (or bargain bin).

Come to think about it tho', it's a long time since I've seen a game that I wanted to buy (before anyone says anything, that doesn't mean that I pirated it, it means that I didn't get it at all).
 
The only games I paid full price (around €50) were: Fallout 2 and Thief: The Dark Project

The otheres were all discount!

(besides my old Mega Drive and Sega Saturn games)
 
If I think a game looks really good or the demo really impresses me I have no problem paying full price. If I'm not sure of the quality I'll wait for lots of reviews before buying, because I really hate spending $40-50 bucks on a game that turns out to be mediocre. With some games I won't pay full price no matter what: Jedi Academy, for example. I thought that Jedi Outcast was a fun game, and I liked the demo for JA, but I know that it just isn't worth $50.

I'm about a year or two behind the curve with most games though, so I usually end up buying them discounted by default.
 
Only bought games first week 3 times myself.

Tribes 2

Neverwinter Nights

DAOC

All 3 were good games and excluding tribes 2, there were relatively bug free (lack of shiny water for ATI notwithstanding)

I don't buy as many gaes as I used to mainly because I'm sick of RTS, FPS, and crpgs that play like final fantasy. This reduces the available games to purchase. When I do buy games, tey are usually a couple years old, or preowned from EB.

Bhurak
 
umm I think thats along the lines of don't talk about pirating anything i'd delete that post if i was you! games here in oz retail for about $80 - over $100 new..
 
Psychotic Nutcase said:
This is what i do: I buy the game, burn it, then refund/ resell it back to the store! It works most of the time, & this way you can get it for free or almost free, but do that too much & they'll get suspicious.
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Right, we do not condone piracy so consider this your first warning!
 
yep and most console games retail for $99.95 cept for resident evil etc that are like $110.

yeah I'm just lucky that I play the sims (*cough*) hehe a lot because I bought all of the add ons and thats about $35 each.

Don't get me wrong though i still play unreal etc and of course Morrowind etc.
 
Montez said:
||FLea|| said:
games here in oz retail for about $80 - over $100 new..
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Man, that's like $110-140 american, they really screw you guys over down there.
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A slight correction since your math is a bit off. It's still a lot of money, though.

$80 AUD = $55.36 USD
$100 AUD = $69.22 USD
 
Piracy is a major problem in Poland, so distribution companies try to make games as cheap as possible. The average price for a game in a store here ranges from 100 to 150 PLN.

The price for a pirate version is 15PLN and an additional 10PLN for each additional CD. Let's make it 35PLN, m'kay?

35PLN: 9.00 USD
100 PLN: 26.00 USD
150 PLN: 39.00 USD
200 PLN (rarely games are that expensive, only for english versions or collectors' pack): 52.00 USD.

Bought quite a few games full-price, including Fallout2, Arcanum and Tactics.
 
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