07-06-2011, 07:49 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Hoosier Land
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Re: What should I do with my copy of '11?
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Originally Posted by Pogo27 |
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No, sorry. I understand perfectly what you're trying to say. What you're not understanding is depreciating value.
We all pay our $60 for our copy of NCAA Football in July the market has decided that $60 is the price that new games are worth and we've decided that NCAA Football is a new game that will be worth our money. And most of us, when we get NCAA Football on Tuesday, will start by putting countless, countless hours into the game.
If you're like me, you put a ton of time in during July and August, and once real football starts, you scale back a little in September (though if the NFL isn't playing, I'll probably be playing a lot more NCAA). Anyway, the point is, by the time February rolls around, I'll be playing hardly any NCAA football any more. My dynasty will probably crawl to about a week per week or so.
I'm spending less of my total time and less of my total video game time playing NCAA. It's not worth $60 to me any more. I know this, because I'm not giving it the time I've given to any other new game I purchase--not any more.
And here's another thing I know. By the time the next year's game comes out, I'll never touch the previous year's game ever again. Ever. EVER.
The game is now worth $0 to me. Whether GameStop is going to give me $5 or $30 (depending on how early I bring it back), it's still actually PROFIT to me. I'm getting $5-$30 for something that is basically trash to me.
There are other options for selling it back too, and GameStop may not inherently be the best option (it tends to be for me since I'm trading in and buying used games so often), but to argue that selling your copy of NCAA back used, at any price, is automatically a loss of money? That's just ridiculous. Anyone arguing this point clearly doesn't understand economics.
Now, on the other hand, if you're keeping the game to collect or because it has personal, sentimental value, that's fine. There's nothing wrong with that. But you're keeping the game for personal reasons, not economic reasons, and there's not an economic justification for keeping the game. As I said, there's nothing WRONG with keeping the game if you WANT to keep it, just don't try arguing that it's the economically better decision.
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Well said. I can't remember the last time I paid $60 for a game. I always get them for less (via trade-ins, coupons, doing surveys for gift cards, prize sites etc). I almost never play a sports game again once the new iteration comes out unless it's a true classic (NFL 2K5, NBA 2K11 will probably be in that class). So it doesn't bother me to trade it in no matter how little I get for it. |
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