On Finances
We finally decided to go to someone about help with our finances.
We have pretty good financial standing, so it's nothing like bad debt or anything negative. We are just getting ready for that stage in life where we want kids and are thinking about the future.
How does this relate to games?
One of the ways we are planning on shifting our money is to pay ourselves every month with what's left of our paychecks. Instead of having a pile of cash after the 1st of the month bills, we're only going to have a small amount to curb rash, spontaneous spending.
Now I don't buy a lot of games off the cuff anymore. I was for a while when I was trying to build back my Atari/NES/SNES collection. Now I'm on top of my collection and waiting for new stuff to come out. If you've seen my list of games to buy this fall, this new home finance plan is going to hamper the shopping list by quite a bit.
That's not necessarily a bad thing I guess. But winter is when I play a ton of games since I don't ride motorcycles in the cold or play tennis. But this is also probably the most impressive fall line-up of triple-A titles to hit consoles in a long time. Halo, Mario, Metroid, Grand Theft Auto, Katamari Damacy, Ace Combat...all great titles worth every penny.
Christmas is coming early this year. It just sucks growing up and having to buy your own presents.
Is there a Netflix-type service for video game rentals? If there's not, it seems like there should be. It would seem that paying a flat monthly rental fee would be more cost-effective than buying new games all the time.
ReplyDeleteThere is, it's called GameFly.com.
ReplyDeleteI could definetly go that route, but I kind of compare it to the music buyer or the movie buyer. You might not watch the movies you have over again, but you could listen to a cd over and over.
Games can be like that, where you want to own the item just in case you want to do either.
And I consider my collection of games to be sort of a history of my childhood. I mean, I did other things of course, but this is something completely material. It's my book library. It's my coin collection. It's my baseball cards.