It's easy to buy games new when someone else buys them for you.
But...you're not actually buying the game!
At any rate, my policy on this works like this: If it is a game I have been looking forward to for some time, I'll get it new, especially if it has multiplayer, and especially if my friends are also getting it. But that is not always the case; I procrastinated on Left 4 Dead 2 for a year.
In all honesty, the only game I bought on release since 2008 has been Portal 2. Mainly because me and a friend got a discount on it. It's $10 less on Steam now than what I paid, but honestly, it was worth it because I didn't miss out on all the jokes and I didn't get spoiled on anything. Except for my friend who decided he couldn't wait long enough for me to be able to play co-op and then walked me through half of it. But still!
I would be legitimately pissed off if I did something like pay $60 for Bioshock 2, and then see it on Steam a year and a half later for $5. This is why I wait for sales on most games. Except Portal 2, of course, although I got a pre-order + bundle discount, so I didn't pay full price for that anyway!
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Zachnorn Everything = overrated.
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