Tips for Saving $$$

Hello Gamers!

I am now returned from break, and have great ideas for where this blog will go in the coming months, and I think I will start with something kind of new. I want to talk about my process for purchasing games, equipment, and other things a new gamer might need.

So first off, quite obviously one will need a way of playing the games he or she will be settling the national debt with by buying them. I would personally suggest the PlayStation gaming series, also I would suggest the Wii for our mini gamers, and the Computer to fall back on if your system should break down because you haven’t shut it down for fifty hours strait.

Second, I’d be nice if said gaming system had a way you could interact with it, as if the almighty gamer himself gave us the gift of transmitting what we want our game to do right into the box of some sort…Oh wait! It did! Via the game controller, mouse, or Creator given fingers we use on our Ds’s and Gameboys.

Now comes the hard part, which pertains to both of those above, and likely to those below, as well. This is learning to know what’s worth buying, and what can wait (or go onto your Christmas list for Santa). No matter what, people have different ideas than mine, and I know that but, you are reading my blog, so here we go. When considering buying something now that I’m more money conscience, I think about a couple of factors, one being “Will I use this for enough time to equate to cost, for our math geeks -(time spent on it)x + Initial cost = Yes or no, if the number comes up in the positives, then I move onto whether it will help me play the game I’ve already spent, or vice versa, will it provide another game for me to spend time on controller.

Next we have the “will I buy the game?” question. It really depends, often I won’t buy a game unless I’ve seen many hours of (hopefully) unspoiled gameplay. This I find has saved me more money than I can count sheep at night, just because I knew what it would be like once I bought it. This is not at all unlike visiting a College, you know you want to attend school there, it’s your dream college. You go with your parents, spend a day looking at the shiny campus, and WHAP, you realize you hate it there. If you thought you just wasted a day there, never going to get that time back, think about all of the money you will save by not going to a college you hate! That same college you hated just a minute ago, saved you a bunch of money.

It’s very important that we realize that if we do some simple research behind things BEFORE we buy, we’ll save lots of money.

One last trick before I wrap it up, one thing I will leave you with that pertains to all of this: borrowing. You’ve all passed kindergarten, and I assume you learned that “sharing is caring” and all of that propaganda, but I realize that it’s the type that will inevitably lead you to ask a friend if you can borrow his game, or his controller, or his whatever. Not only can you decide if you want to go make the investment of your money by trying it out for yourself, you may even be able to buy it off of your friend if he or she no longer uses it. If you’re really lucky you might get it for free!

All of these tips I give with my blessing, hopping that you’ll all save a little money out there, and keep on gaming with it.

Resistance is Futile

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Btw: here is a site i've used in the past http://store.valvesoftware.com/