How do you afford your gaming hobby?

[ZenfoldorVGI]

NJ5 said:

ZenfoldorVGI said:
I get all my games for free, from trading on ebay. We refer to you guys are "marks" or "lames." The ones who pay full price.

More info can be found here, in the post where Zenfoldor took pity on the masses:

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=30146

Also called "guys who make games exist". Do you think people buy games because they don't know how to save money?

 

 

lol, point taken. I couldn't pull all the heists I do, if it weren't for working schmos grinding it out for God and country.

If it weren't for lames souring the jobs, I'd get all my entertainment and food for free, see. Too many hands in the pie.

 

lol, 1920's gangstafoldor aside, I'd have 3 people PM me, thanking me for showing them how to buy games cheaply on ebay, so apparently somebody simply didn't know how to save hundreds of dollars when buying games until I showed them.

You do realize that most of the games from ebay are from people who don't play them anymore, or from actual game stores who have so many games that they actually have to sell them at a competitive price, on ebay.

I mean, what kind of markup are you paying on entertainment nowadays? Depending on the game, about 10 to 4,000,000%?

What if I don't wanna pay 60 dollars to play Assassin's Creed?

Buying games off Ebay is much less morally ambigious than renting services like gamefly, which ensure that most people never buy games at all. Or even gamestop who also buys and sells used games but who also cheat you at every turn.

I do support games that I feel deserve it, but what if I want to buy a game and play through it, that I don't think deserves it? I literally buy crap games all the time. I love games. They don't have to be good for me to play them. However, I don't wanna pay full price, and I don't wanna tell the companies, "Hey, I bought this game, make more like it."