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How Exactly Do You Buy Games When You Are Broke?

Josh Schwartzman of Gamer 2.0 writes:

"So what is an unfortunate broke gamer to do? You could find useless junk lying around your house and try to pawn it off, but that takes too much time and more often than not you will probably end up losing a good chunk of change in fees or being ripped off. An article by Forbes discusses a natural trend in the video game economy, one that many gamers have been using and relying on for years. Sites committed only to gaming have given gamers the edge to unload their unwanted or unplayed games to other users for a game of their own. Sure, the idea is not revolutionary in itself, but here comes the kicker: it's relatively free to use and maintain."

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Powertesties5596d ago

You save some money, look at clearance. Might even want to check out Ebay or even gamefly.com. Gamefly has some killer deals on used games.

Silellak5596d ago

Yeah, I was about to say, Gamefly is awesome for the "broke gamer", whether you are just renting from them or use them to buy games at a nice discount.

heroicjanitor5596d ago

You steal them. The way to do this is wear a balaclava at 1 o clock in the day while farting and punching random people

RebornSpy5596d ago

Prostitution is the only option.

AnthonyPerez5596d ago

Maybe that's why that woman started hooking around in Second Life:

Italian Woman Tries Prostitution Through Second Life
http://blog.gamer20.com/200...

RebornSpy5596d ago

she'll be well prepared for the hard times ahead. :)

rawd5596d ago

You are my new favorite user. Bubbles

thebudgetgamer5596d ago

its hard when you are a poor college student but you make do somehow for that fix

:)

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A Matter Of Trust: What The Game Industry Should Do To Win Gamers Back

Skewed and Reviewed have written an Opinion Piece covering issues in the gaming industry, how current issues were issues years ago, and what can be done to help restore consumer trust.

anast2d ago

Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.

Garethvk1d 21h ago

How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.

anast1d 21h ago

Wait until release. Watch Gameplay. Exercise patience.

Garethvk1d 21h ago

But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.

1nsomniac2d ago

Get rid of the suits in the industry and job done!!

Garethvk1d 21h ago

They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.

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From The Last of Us to Baldur's Gate 3: The success of the Game Music Festival

Marie Dealessandri speaks to Borislav Slavov and Gustavo Santaolalla about “the new golden age of games music”.

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Famous actor loves Helldivers 2 and wants to play General Brasch in movie adaptation

A famous actor from Starship Troopers has showered praise on Helldivers 2 and said he is open to the idea of playing General Brasch.

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