[QUOTE="marchmadness1012"]
No, I would've played through 3 games for $120, while you would've played through 3 games for $180. Your 3 games will sit on your shelf collecting dust that you'll say you'll play again but won't.
I've been trading in games and selling on eBay for over a year and tend to profit on games. I've been paying for games out of traded in game money for a long time, no out of pocket expense. You probably also buy all your games brand new rather than waiting 3 days and buying it at EB or eBay for 25% less.
Sepewrath
First off, you want to know what game I'm playing right now? Ocarina of Time. That should be a very clear indication of when I say I play games again, I mean it. I have two games that I haven't played through multiple times in my library and I just haven't gotten around to it yet. I have played through Fallout 3, Gears of War 2, Uncharted, Dead Space, Twilight Princess, Mario Galaxy, Assassins Creed, Bioshock, Prince of Persia, Arkham Asylum and so on all multiple times, And yeah I could have 3 new games and have them for 180 and the key word there is HAVE. I can play them over and over, I can lets my friends borrow and play them, I can decorate my house with them if I want. You for $120 rented 2 games and own 1. I could have played the same 3 games for the same period of time for less than 30 bucks, so who exactly is getting raw deal here?Also I question the legitimacy of your claim that you don't pay out of pocket for games using trades. If you trade in a 60 dollar game, you cant get another one; you cant even get another one by trading in two, you would still owe money. Since you say you trade in all your games, you couldn't have a substantial enough library to trade in a stack of games for one new game and if you did, you could only do it once or twice, unless your buying a stack of new games all the time to trade in for one game. So I question that statement. I could see that happening if you bought a new game, traded it in and got an older game with a price drop. But its going to take a little more than 3 days for a price drop.
I gave an example. I bought a few games on eBay, played through them and profited off them. Do that a few times and you can buy a game. Powertrade that at EB and you've got another game. Sell that game and you can get two slightly older games. Trade those in at a T2 or 3 and get a new game or 2. Follow that pattern and you'll never pay. You probably have 1000s of dollars invested in games, and you can only play one at a time.
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