Your Biggest Waste of Money on Gaming?

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kingkiller33

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Gaming ain't cheap, and it sure don't feel good when you feel like money was wasted or thrown away on a bad purchase.

Last week, I felt this way when I failed to cancel my Gamefly account on time, and it auto-renewed. Damn you Gamefly. Even though I paid for a whole month, if I try to cancel early, it automatically ends the service right then. They know that people like me are likely to wait up till the end date and miss it.

Therefore, I just paid 18 bucks for basically nothing. I keep forgetting to bring my disc to work with me so I can mail the dang thing back. I signed up with GF in June so I could pay Alpha Protocol on the cheap. A few weeks later, I found the game on the cheap and bought it. With renting, I end up with nothing, and I just don't have the massive free time to justify 18 bucks.

Another purchase I regret is buying Brutal Legend last holiday. It ended up being put on the shelf due to lack of time, still in the wrapper today. I could have bought the same game for 10 bucks now instead of the near $60. The rapid price drop makes me feel like it is a crappy cheap game.
 
I do plenty of research before I buy anything (never day-one purchase without plenty of research). However, I did forget to cancel my World of Warcraft account and it autorenewed while I was out of town without internet, and couldn't stop it from renewing...

I also bought the Borderlands guide before the game out, and I realized it was completely useless, so I was able to return it.

That's about it...

OH! Well, I only paid half price..but I got a PS2 HDD back when they came out. What a scam. Though it came in handy when my memory card was wiped by (also Sony) a demo disc.
 
I still feel ripped off for paying retail for a few ps2 games years ago. This gen I feel ripped off for paying around 40 bucks for Soul Calibur IV. It wasn't worth it. I usually love fighters,but I didn't play it much.

I think the Wii was a rip-off too.

I'm joking about the wii or am I? ;)
 
ncaa basketball for the SNES i rented the game off a video store and loved it and begged my grandmother to give me cash to buy it... 39.99 or maybe it was 49.99 bucks later (YES SNES GAMES COST THAT MUCH SO STOP #$#$#$ ABOUT THE PRICE OF ps3 AND 360 games : )


I got it home and went ... WTF why did i like this game... back then there was no internet or other places to really trade it in (Unless you wanted to take it up the #$##$# in how much you lost)


I think i still have it today down in the basement of forgotten toys : )

though still if you want earlier games

HOT SHOTS TENNIS FOR PSP got it friday for 19.25 and hated it
Lunar for the psp really never played it
Pokemon soul silver played it for around 5 mins
hosigami for the DS played it for around 5 mins

NOw i will proally go back to the last 3 games but still by the time i get around to playing them i could probally get them 50% off

that NCAA basketball game still pisses me off to this date


O and to the dude who is complaining about GAMEFLY just call the phone number.. If no games went out they will REFUND your money to you (if its only been a day or two since your new start date)

I up my account to 2 games from 1 ... nothing ever shipped in that 2nd slot for 3 days and i called and got a full refund
 
I would say paying full price for Ghostbusters last year was one of my biggest recent gaming regrets. I only did it because all of the Ragtag CAG's said they were going to play multi a lot and they never did. Of course it was $20 by Christmas.

Brutal Legend was a regret also, but I got it during the TRU B2G1F sale so it was essentially my free game after paying full price for Uncharted 2 and NBA 2K10 so it wasn't as big a hit. I definately traded it back in when Gamestop was still giving around $20 for it as it dropped so fast. Hiding the fact that the game was a RTS instead of a platformer really pissed me off and has me to never trust Tim Schaefer again.
 
Good thread.

Probably,

1.) Buying a new 360 because I couldn't wait to play SFIV when it red ringed the day the game came out. I got my repaired unit a week later.

2.) Odama for GC.

3.) Mimana: Iyar Chronicle for PSP.

4.) Any of the other innumerable games I bought day one that I didn't do my research on.

A more interesting reply would be a Neo Geo game, but everything I've bought for it has been awesome.
 
[quote name='FroMann']Guitar Hero 3.[/QUOTE]

Seconded. I got the bundle (back when it was close to full price) to have a second guitar for Rock Band and figured it'd be great to get a game along with it. I think I played it twice in 3 years, and I really dislike the GH guitar compared to the RB ones.

Another for me is probably the Dreamcast. I know there are some great games for that system and people love it, but I didn't have anything great for it, didn't play it very often, and ended up selling it before I heard you could play roms on it. Huge waste of money for me, but that was more my fault than the system's.

Biggest game disappointments for me (that I got for full price) that I can think of would be GTA IV, NBA Street Vol 3 (Vol 2 was one of the most fun games ever), and, sadly, Final Fantasy VII.
 
Back before I discovered this website, and when I had more money to blow I bought "Fuzion Frenzy 2" at retail price, I really liked the first one and bit on it...should have read some reviews. I have also bought "The Club" at retail price, good game but the price dropped like a rock. Guitar Hero III was another huge regret. I could get those 3 games and guitar for probably around $30-35 bucks now and I dropped $220 on them.....I am mad just thinking about it.
 
I bought some crappy NES Advantage knock-off by MadKatz or something because the Nintendo brand ones were out of stock and I was like 13 and impatient. I remember my mother asking me like 10 times before checking out if I was sure I wanted it and didn't want to wait a couple of weeks for the actual Nintendo one. Needless to say I didn't listen to her and when I got home I immediately knew I wasted my hard earned money. Dammit.
 
My biggest waste recently was purchasing a brand new 360 arcade ($199) less than a month before Microsoft revealed the 360 slim. I've been kicking myself ever since.

With games I regretted purchasing CE versions of Resident Evil 5 and SFIV. I vowed never to buy another CE unless it's cheap.
 
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Biggest "waste" of money I couldnt tell you, there are a LOT of last gen games I regret, but I have been pretty spot on since discovering CAG. So not many regrets this gen

I LOVED Brutal Legend though, but I am a huge metal head, so I imagine most people would get a lot less out of it than I did. I loved everything about the game honestly, even the RTS light gameplay.
 
DBZ Ultimate Battle 22 & DBZ Legends (Imports) - Yep, I feel into the hype being a Dragon Ball junkie. Spent $30 on the converter to play imports and $50 for each game. I tried deluding myself thinking these were the best fighting games ever but found myself going back to SF Alpha. Ultimate Battle 22 had probably the worst controls and command inputs of any fighter. Legends was boring. Everyone played exactly the same.
 
Recently Bioshock 2. Although I enjoyed the game enough, I bought it full price during one of those "need to get a new game tonight" moments.

Of course it dropped in price quickly after.
 
Brutal Legend by far. Someone here in another thread said it best; everything about the game was great, with the huge exception of the gameplay. God that game was a major disappointment.

And to add salt to the wound, it was discounted to $40 by the holiday season, and I think down to $20 by February or March.
 
I'm going to have to go with the Lifetime Subscription to Star Trek: Online. I had high hopes for the game but that Lifetime Sub seems like it might have been a bad idea. I haven't played it in over a month and people keep leaving in droves.
 
Anytime I spent full price on a Gold card for XBox Live simply because before I know it they're on sale for $25-$35. Other then that, Wii at launch simply because there really was nothing to play on it at the time other then Zelda.

Oh and Hey You, Pikachu! At launch...
 
3 words. "Tony Hawk: Ride" worst game ever. I bought it at launch and after 1 hr of playing it. I regretted it so much.
 
Celebrity Deathmatch at launch. I also took a pretty big hit on the Wii, I ended up using it almost exlusively to play SNES titles. Traded that in impulsively for a DS which didn't blow my mind, either.
 
Rampage for the NES. I saved for two months for a new NES game at about age 11 or so. I went to the store and spent twenty minutes choosing between Rampage and Castlevania II. Went home. Found that you essentially always have infinite lives at Rampage for the NES, so there was zero challenge to the game. Banged my head against the wall.

Close second was an Xbox 360 that had two RRODs within a month. I eventually got my money back. I'm now (just recently) a happy PS3 owner.
 
[quote name='evildeadjedi']:wall: :bomb: :censored::censored:#-ofuckfuckAtari Jaguar 64-bit DO THE MATH MY ASS! That console was complete ASS![/QUOTE]

Same here. I kept it for a week and brought it back to Electronics Boutique. Traded it in and got a Sega CD and Eternal Champions so it ended well.
 
[quote name='trenttsd']Rampage for the NES. I saved for two months for a new NES game at about age 11 or so...went home. Found that you essentially always have infinite lives at Rampage for the NES, so there was zero challenge to the game. Banged my head against the wall.[/QUOTE]

Wow. Exact same for me. I LOVED the arcade version and begged the mom (so I guess in this case it wasn't MY biggest waste of money on gaming) to get it for me for a long time. Finally, I got it.

Put it in, played through it in one sitting. Hated how it looked and how boring/easy it was. Sold it to a "shy" kid (probably would be considered autistic now) for 20 bucks a year later and sort of felt bad for ripping him off.


As far as money I actually spent - I'd say a Wii. I didn't hate it, but I played it quite a bit for about 5 months...then loaned it to a friend for "a week or two," which wound up being like 2 months. When I got it back, I don't think I bothered hooking it up again until I sold it in December of that year, just to clean off all my data before I shipped it out.
 
lets see, countless amounts of XBL wired headsets, and 2 wireless headsets... all stopped working. and of course plenty of games that got the damn crack in the middle, even though it either stays in my xbox, or goes back in the case... geh...
 
Nintendo Wii, no idea in hell why I bought it. Got one like a month before the price started to fall to 150 on the regular. Wound up losing around 40-50 bucks when selling the bundle. Didnt get much use out of it at all.
 
My current gaming laptop. Not that I don't like PC games or don't play them often, but more so that I should have just got a desktop for a lot cheaper. I thought I could use it as a portable machine and whatnot, but I am lucky to get ~45 minutes of battery life out of the thing playing games before it dies and needs a recharge, so it just sits on my PC desk basically never to be moved. Not even sure how the hell they can get away with such a shit battery life, but ultimately it is my own fault for believing it had a good battery life.
 
The 60GB Playstation 3 at launch... I love my PS3, but I paid the original MSRP for it and for the longest time it was a sweet Blu-Ray player that also played a few video games. I also bought an Xbox 360 at launch and that stupid thing died on me 4 times and the only good game at launch was Kameo.

Now that I think about it, most consoles suck at launch and cost too much, but for some reason I had to buy them anyway.
 
The regrets are too painful, listing them will make me feel bad. One thing that I used to do was buy all the games in a series, play the first one for a couple weeks and then never touch it again until finally selling them all and only have played the first one. I did this with Sly Cooper, Kingdom Hearts, Metal Gear Solid, and Jak and Daxter.
 
Full price on Enter the Matrix for PS2 thanks to a glowing feature in some magazine. I think I made it through the second level before putting it down, apparently forever.
 
Buying a Wii at launch. Sure, there was Zelda...but after that I just played my Ps2 'till I bought a 360 in the summer with Gears of War. Then I played it again when NMH came out.
 
[quote name='mtxbass1']State of Emergency - Full price at launch. I played it for 30 minutes.[/QUOTE]
I played it for a little bit longer, but not by much. The only fun part of the game was the two player mode. Otherwise it was a shitty follow up to Rockstar's GTA III.

Although I think EB Games actually gave me a full refund after I bitched enough. I think I bullshitted them that it didn't wanna work on my PS2 or something.:lol:

Even if I had a cheap PS2 right now, a store would have to pay me to play that frickin' game.
 
Wii at launch
Auto-renew on XBL when I didn't have an Xbox anymore
Trying to build a gamecube collection and then ending up selling everything
PS2 since I sold everything and have ended up re-buying a ton of it since then
 
[quote name='KillerRamen']The 60GB Playstation 3 at launch... I love my PS3, but I paid the original MSRP for it and for the longest time it was a sweet Blu-Ray player that also played a few video games. I also bought an Xbox 360 at launch and that stupid thing died on me 4 times and the only good game at launch was Kameo.

Now that I think about it, most consoles suck at launch and cost too much, but for some reason I had to buy them anyway.[/QUOTE]


I picked up my PS3 60 gig a few months later at Hastings for $499 with $100 dollar gift card. I blew the 100 on the bare bones Oblivion and Resistance. Didn't get around to playing them much, and a short time later, Oblivion game of the year edition was released, and I ended up reselling the Oblivion for a measly 10 bucks on Ebay.
 
Like the above poster said, trying to build a gamecube collection only to sell almost all of it later on was probably my biggest waste of gaming dollars. Second to that would be buying any and every jrpg for the ps2 I could, even if I wasn't going to play it or it sucked.
 
I bought the second Steel Battalion game on the Xbox, with massive 100+ button controller and played it like twice. I bought it in the UK, but I guess it cost about $200 or so.

Luckily I got my money back when I sold it on Ebay.
 
One would be Metroid Prime Hunters. I'm a huge fan of the Prime series and Hunters was one of the main reasons I wanted a DS, but looking around with the touch screen made me motion sick/head hurt every time I tried to play it.

Only other ones I can think of are Battlefield 2 and Call of Duty 2 on PC. I've come to realize that Valve is the only company that should be allowed to make multiplayer FPS. At least I didn't pay full price for any of them, just didn't get my money's worth compared to my normal.
 
GameTap.

When I joined, they were a pretty awesome service. Great titles, Mac and PC support, solid emulation, and a stable client. But then...

  • They were purchased by Metaboli.
  • They dropped the client, instead switching to a buggy, browser-based dashboard.
  • They switched all their emulated titles to use in-browser emulators.
  • They dropped Mac support.
  • They lost the license to support Sierra titles.
  • They gave the finger to 64-bit users.
  • They raised their prices.

I was fooled by a request to update my contact and payment information into renewing for another year, months after nearly all value in the service had disappeared into the ether.

The service had a ton of really classic titles that justified the subscription fee. Many of them still aren't on Steam or similar digital services. The Baldur's Gate series, the Hoyle collections, assorted Sierra titles, all of the Heroes of Might and Magic titles... It was really sharp.

Once they sold themselves to Metaboli, though, they just kept taking things away and shrugging like they had no clue why their user base was complaining.

One of the coolest features about the original client was the ability to set up sub-accounts with parental controls. I made a GameTap account and added a sub-account for my little sister so she could browse the library, download new age-appropriate titles, and have fun without me looking over her shoulder. The new browser-based approach is so clunky and obtuse, she can't use the service anymore, so that's shot.

I don't really know why they're still in business.
 
Where to start... Had a 64 for ocarina of time, sold it then re-bought it for nwo vs wcw! bought a sega Saturn for the import of firepro wrestling only... Bought an eBay on ps2 for 399 when it was released only to get duped and back then ebay's buyer protection isn't what it is now. Then I an xbox a month before the 1st price drop. Same with my ps3 paid 499 only to see he price drop...
 
[quote name='musha666']Same here. I kept it for a week and brought it back to Electronics Boutique. Traded it in and got a Sega CD and Eternal Champions so it ended well.[/QUOTE]

Kept it about a month cause Aliens VS Predator was okay and I wanted to beat the game. I got Sega CD at a local game place with Lunar The Silver Star and Spiderman. Lunar was awesome until I got to the Bone Dragon, killed it and then game froze. :(. Reloaded from my last save and killed the Bone Dragon again and the GAME FROZE AGAIN!!! :bomb: Went back to the store told them about the situation and they let me swap the game. Played the game again to get to the Bone Dragon and the fucking :wall::censored::censored::censored:fuckfuckfuck piece of:wall::censored::censored::censored:fuckfuckfuck froze after killing him again.
 
You can add DJ Hero Wii to the list. I was bored and bought it for full price - played it for a week - two at most, and then never touched it again.
 
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