Before this site, it was PURE luck finding good deals and I had to venture out to find something random cheap. I think finding cheap DC games at sears was a great find. Thanks to this site I have saved a lot, but spent a lot as well. I also have a huge back log thanks to this site as wellI've been on here for a very long time (10 years).. so I'd say.. a lot.
That...sounds about right. I Like to think I'm not "that bad" merely because majority of the games I get are under $15, but when I look and see all the games I now own ranging from "have to have it" to "vaguely interested" I realize, yeah, this isn't healthy. Add to the fact a triple digit backlog, it feels like I'm lying to myself in saying I saved any money at all.I'd honestly say that CAG has cost me much more than it has saved me... Before CAG, I had never heard of such a thing as a "backlog" and now mine is ridiculous. Still, it's fun and I'd like to think I've gotten better at restraining myself on deals.
omg.. I forgot about that! What did the codes do exactly? Weren't they like 10% off? I totally forget, I just remember I had so many codes.. lolIn five years, easily thousands. Chief among savings is the stacking ECA code glitch for Amazon game orders that I had open for years.
Storytime: ECA got noticed by this site for having promo codes 10% off ANY games at Amazon, which spurred memberships for the site. Somewhere around 1-3 weeks ECA got the bright idea to GIVE AWAY the membership for free, increasing membership to easily tens of thousands. Compound this by the fact codes were generated via browser cookie and suddenly the internet was having a field day clearing their cache for codes until they ran out after a day.omg.. I forgot about that! What did the codes do exactly? Weren't they like 10% off? I totally forget, I just remember I had so many codes.. lol
Storytime: ECA got noticed by this site for having promo codes 10% off ANY games at Amazon, which spurred memberships for the site. Somewhere around 1-3 weeks ECA got the bright idea to GIVE AWAY the membership for free, increasing membership to easily tens of thousands. Compound this by the fact codes were generated via browser cookie and suddenly the internet was having a field day clearing their cache for codes until they ran out after a day.
ECA went to Amazon saying they ran out of codes and Amazon nodded with a new batch. It wasn't long before users who had input first batch codes realized the new wave stacked. Needless to say, that second batch lasted hours at best. Amazon reluctantly supplied a third batch of codes after a day or two and sure enough, people could now get 30% off games with hoarded codes. That was the end of that said Amazon and discontinued the promotion. The incompetence at ECA on top of free membership killed a pretty legit promo, one that could have still been going today to compete with BB's GCU.
Long story short, those who got in early reaped the reward of 30% off games for as long as Amazon would let them add games to an existing order (worked on CE's too ).
I've spent way more money on games because of CAG. That said, I still love this site and always enjoy a good deal.Honestly it has probably cost me money as a result of buying games/movies that I don't really need/want just because they're cheap, and having them just end up gathering dust on the shelf.
I've been much better about that the past year or so though and only keep an active eye on the deals forums when there are specific things I'm looking for a good price on.
I've spent way more money on games because of CAG. That said, I still love this site and always enjoy a good deal.
Haha...same here. I used to not have a backlog ever, but now that I get games when they're on the cheap or through b2g1 deals, I went from spending $50-60 to $10-20 per game, which means I usually get 2-3 games at a time except for series' that I'm a huge fan of like Metal Gear, Final Fantasy, or Devil May Cry(not to be confused with DmC cause that game SUCKED). I will still hesitantly pay $30 for a Resident Evil game though.Probably a couple thousand. I used to buy a game new for $50-60, then rent a ton, or only buy 10-20 games per system. Thanks to CAG I have a backlog, which means I never think to buy a game at launch. I wait 6mo+ and get it for a fraction. I have something like 115 games, average purchase price is under $25.
Now how many times have I bought something because I saw it was cheap thanks to CAG? Heh...let's just say, it probably offsets the savings