How / When To Buy New / Used Games (For Dummies)

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Because a particular nimrod (howdy!) bought Prey for the 360 USED for about $40ish 2 weeks before the price for a NEW copy dropped to $30. What's the standard time-lapse for a price drop - 6 months? 1 year?

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

It really depends. If the thing's a massive bestseller, it can be a year or two.

If not, maybe 6 monthes or less.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

I just want to brag about buying Spiderman for GC at Gamestop for $5.99 this past Saturday.

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

EAT IT HIPPIE

I'm halfway tempted to trade in the XBox games I barely played (Warriors / Prince of Persia: The Two Warriors / Chronicles of Riddick) to maximize my trade-in buxx, unless SOMEONE at Microsoft HQ finally gets around to making emulators for these things on the 360. Like anyone's playing the FIRST (second) Prince of Persia game - come on!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

has anyone ever bought a used game off of GameFly? They're charging like $10 less for Assassin's Creed 2 than GameStop/EB Games

― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 18:02 (fifteen years ago)

Have you tried Amazon or Ebay? Gamestop is usually not competitive with those sites in my experience, and the stuff I've purchased on Amazon on the cheap has been in great condition (or still wrapped).

― no gut busting joke can change history (polyphonic), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 18:19 (fifteen years ago)

I buy my games from Gamefly; it's a great system they have going on there. 15 dollar current gen recent releases!

― Muscus ex Craneo Humano (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 22:14 (fifteen years ago)

yeah I actually just signed up for Gamefly again specifically so that I could take advantage of their prices

― Ride decided to give birth to a giant poop log & disguise it as a CD (jamescobo), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:49 (fifteen years ago)

seems like the best thread for this: http://blog.onlive.com/2010/10/04/onlive-just-play-for-free/

― Mordy, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 11:46 (fifteen years ago)

not getting much from looking through the site, what exactly is this onlive thing? does it work as well as playing a game on a ps3? do they have a big catalogue of games?

― NI, Thursday, 7 October 2010 10:43 (fifteen years ago)

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