So I spent a long time last night going through my collection of PS4 games picking out ones that I didn't really have an interest in playing so that I could trade them in to GameStop for Red Dead Redemption II since they always have the trade-in promotion where they give like an extra 20% credit per game when you put the credit toward the purchase of a newly released game. I picked out 19 games, and figured that would be enough to cover RDR2 and more. When I got to GameStop the employee told me that they only do that promotion with select games now, and of course none of my games qualified.
He told me that I would get roughly $70+ credit for my 19 games, and you can imagine how I reacted to that especially considering that there were some fairly new releases like Everybody's Golf, Far Cry 5, Injustice 2, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Watch Dogs 2, Wolfenstein II, etc. They were only giving $3 for some of those which would basically be the tax for their pre-owned prices for them.

The majority of games that I was trading in would get me $3-$5 each, and two would get me $10+ each. I've complained about the low amount that GameStop gives for games in the past, but this was on a whole other level. Almost all of the games that I was trading in were popular titles that they still sell pre-owned for quite a lot despite them being a little older, and several were fairly new releases.
I wasn't about to trade in 19 games for essentially one game, so I politely declined their generous offer.

I went to Walmart and bought RDR2 with the credit that I was saving for a game that I wanted on day one.
argyle wrote: ↑Thu Oct 25, 2018 3:56 pmSo I know I'm the one who kinda said it to begin with, but I think I'm gonna be the one to bail on getting RDR2 day-1 (of those of us that had said we were). I just have too many games already started, and I've abandoned too many already this year.
If I had read this before buying it today then I might have passed on buying it today as well since (like I mentioned before) I'm pretty much done paying $60 for games on day one (or any other time) regardless of the game. Of course there's going to be games that I really want to play the day that they come out like RDR2, but I realistically should wait to get them when they're a lot cheaper since I already have hundreds of games waiting to be played.