Seller’s remorse: a kick in the teeth.
After working hard at it for a while, you’re finished with or stuck on a game, and you just decide to unload it. I mean, you’re not going to play it anymore, you can get a little money for it and play something new. No problem. You hock it on eBay or half.com, or if you don’t know better you trade it in for about one sixth that amount in credit at a gaming specialty shop. Problem solved.
Until a couple of months later when you desperately want to play that game again, working through some of the harder difficulty levels, finally finishing the game you didn’t have the balls for last time around, you know what I mean. And you sold it! For almost nothing! Gah. It’s one of the worst feelings in gaming.
Well, now’s the time to get that game back. Find it used somewhere and pick it up, but be patient. The prices only go down from here, since we’re at the end of the generation. Unless of course it’s no longer being manufactured because the publisher went belly-up. Or it was discontinued because of slow sales. All I can say at this point is happy hunting.
I’ve unloaded Eternal Darkness, Viewtiful Joe, Skies of Arcadia Legends, and some other good games and regret the loss. Luckily for me these games are going for very little money and I’ll pick them up here and there. Unfortunately, they went for very little when I sold them to begin with.
Let’s hear what game you most regret selling.
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After I beat it for the third time, I traded some kid my copy of FFIII for his Secret of Evermore. Keep in mind that I was young, and knew nothing of “Square America” vs. the FF team–I thought my beloved Squaresoft could do no wrong. We were in 8th grade, and it was supposed to be a temporary trade. The little bastard moved away soon after, taking my beloved game (with box and manual!) and leaving me nothing but his cart of SoE… which I still haven’t beaten.
I vowed to never part with one of my games ever again after selling my SNES years ago. Even if I finish the game 100%, and know that I’ll never play it again, I just can’t bring myself to do it.
With the whole gamerscore I usually hold onto games a bit longer so I can play later and get more achievements.
Forget games, I was notorious as a kid for selling all my consoles. I had a Genesis, SNES, NES, Jaguar, Turbo Express to name only a few.
Great article. I regret selling Unreal Championship 2. I really liked that game because of the complexity of the game play and multitude of options available, even if it was megatwitch. I was working my way through the story of each character but I sold it in a bundle with other stuff for like a dollar so I could get fusion frenzy and an extra controller. Big mistake; I don’t even play fusion frenzy. I also regret selling Ghost Recon 1 and Rainbow Six 3 in the Tom Clancy triple pack.
I only get rid of games that I dislike. I keep everything else. Partly because I fear the exact situation you are describing. I’m always afraid I’ll regret getting rid of something. Fortunately, I’ve never regretting KEEPING my games. Although, space is becoming a bit of an issue.