Ferment in the used games market - or the bin divers lament

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Spaced Cowboy
WTF is a godown?

Warehouse to you Yanks

[Sava]

Originally posted by Spaced Cowboy
WTF is a godown?

it's the same thing as a dickfor

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by lord of the mark

I assume your experience with Ebay has been good - I suppose one looks for sellers with good refs

Yeah, I've bought some games, some DVDs, and a phone, with no problems.

[Spaced Cowboy]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


Warehouse to you Yanks

Is it pronouned,

go-down?
god-own?
OMG-PWND?

[hexagonian]

My son 'borrowed' my copy of SMAC a few weeks ago. I went to EB and got a used copy for $3.

Sad to see the end of that

[DrSpike]

It's worth $3 to initiate the next generation of Civvers.

[child of Thor]

Originally posted by lord of the mark


well that would end by purity about anything that resembles piracy but if it reached the point where there wasnt even a possibility of getting a used game, I might feel id been left with no choice.

I hear ya and agree with you on the piracy thing. I've supported the games industry from nearly the very begining. And sometime i may be a geek and post a picture of my gaming collection
But if i cant find something anywhere else then its an option that isn't quite as illegal as full piracy imho. I've used it for the Xcom games most recently - having bought amiga Xcom once and PC Xcom twice+Xcom2 once; and the fact i'd lost the pc versions and couldn't find them anywhere.....well i didnt feel too guilty.

I did get Daggerfall of ebay though and that was a good version(Full box etc), also a couple of soundblaster AWE64's - both work fine.

And as i type i have next to me my new 19" CRT that i bought of amazon. So although i dont do online buying myself(i use work or a friend) - i havent had a bad experience with it yet

with this and the overcats(last resort) people like us might survive the death of the bargin bin pc game. Still i'll drink a toast in fondness to its memmory (pretend its a toast)

[Footie Mad]

Most good games come out in classic editions for equivalent of 10$ here, isn't it the same where you live?

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Footie Mad
Most good games come out in classic editions for equivalent of 10$ here, isn't it the same where you live?

The most popular ones tend to, though sometimes the relationship of the availibility of the "jewel case" or shovelware editions to popularity is elusive. But the used game bins have all sorts of gems that dont get classic editions. and with the general pressure on PC shelf space, sometimes the classic edition games get squeezed out as well.

[hexagonian]

Just scored AOW2-ShadowMagic for $5.00 out of a used bin. I haven't seen it for less than $20 locally, new.

Unfortunately, I have too many other playing options at the moment, and it does not get any better with civ4 coming out.

Someday...

[DrSpike]

It's a decent game, certainly worth $5.

[child of Thor]

Originally posted by hexagonian
Just scored AOW2-ShadowMagic for $5.00 out of a used bin. I haven't seen it for less than $20 locally, new.

Unfortunately, I have too many other playing options at the moment, and it does not get any better with civ4 coming out.

Someday...

Good score

just a short bus trip away i have one of those grungey computer exchange stores, sells secondhand hardware(its where i got my Geforce2MX from so i could run medievalTW) and games for all platforms. The only downside about it is that you suffer a certain ammount of ear bleedage, as they play hard and loud music to give it ambiance. long may it continue

[duke o' york]

We've got one of those in Leeds, but the trouble is that it's chock-full of all the games that people of taste would take back to exchange, and none of the games that only idiots would return.

[child of Thor]

sounds like this one, although i have found PatricianII+III there for £4+£5 respectively. I keep looking at MOO3.......













.......but luckily my specs cant handle it

[DrSpike]

Yes, that is lucky.