Yes, the gaming world provides multiple options and every person should follow hi sown gaming style. You are lucky that you have sufficient funds to invest in buying new games. Even i would love to do this more often but my limited funds act as a big hindrance. So, all I can do is to stay happy with the free ones only.
Well, you have to also be careful when borrowing and sharing. You might want to be sure that the person you're borrowing is not a careless person. It matters a lot. If the person is careless, he or she might spoil the disk and you'd end up buying another one. I have a friend who borrowed a careless person, and the person ended up spoiling the disk. Now anytime we want to play, it hangs and its really frustrating
See this is why I hate lending games. It's your game they are borrowing. They break it, it's your loss. They won't replace it. Best you can do is to not let people borrow your stuff so they will last as long as you take care of them. My PS2 games are still alive to this day long after my actual PS2 died because I took care of the discs and never let anybody borrow them.
I agree. Both borrowing as well as lending games have a great deal of risk factors associated with them. Whenever I use my friend's games, there is always a subconscious pressure in my mind about being careful with the disk. This badly hampers the fun associated with gaming.
I agree with you 100%, but then there are some friends you cannot but borrow. Especially if you're close friends. If he comes over and you guys have fun gaming, and then he wants to borrow it, will you actually say no?
Well, lending is different from trading. I don't mind trading temporarily because both parties have accountability, meaning they can't ruin your disc without having to worry that you won't give the game back if the disc is not in your preferred condition.
Wow! That's smart of you. I think its a nice way to reduce collateral damage to your game. I'd tell my friend about this. I'm 101% in for trading over lending.
Only exception would be if you try and trade with your relatives who are a bit spoiled and who would easily just tell their parents about me not giving back the game they owned because they ruined my game. Seriously, never give stuff to relatives. They are painfully impossible to deal with. When they come over, just hide everything.
I don't like the idea of selling games. I'm the sentimental type so I can't really sell the stuff I own, even for profit and even if I don't use them anymore. There are ways to keep them; just store them neatly in a shelf somewhere, put them in a disc book, etc; but I'd never sell them for money to buy a new one. I don't think I could do that sort of thing when I had a lot of memories with it and would probably want to play it again someday.
Quarterly sounds like a good schedule. I'm sure you can finish a bunch of games in a 3 month period so you can get new ones after those. But for me it all depends on whether there's a sale or not. If not, I can just simply not buy games, hold off until the next sale, and just play the ones I have. It would be a lot cheaper that way, and I can buy more games with the money I am setting for gaming expenses. Win win for everyone involved.
