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Do you lend your games to mates?
Topic Started: Sunday Nov 16 2008, 03:54 PM (636 Views)
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I'm just wondering what people's stances are on lending games to mates.

It comes from an issue with my neighbour today...I've been lending him some 360 games, and today he asked for Dead Space, and I said after I finish it, but it made me uncomfortable, but I don't wanna be mean-spirited.

I asked him if he'd finished the Rainbow Six Vegas 1 game that I'd lent him, and he said he thinks he lent it to a friend. WTF!!!?!? :scared:

So I'd like to post this thread in the name of research. Are you a lender, or an obsessive hoarder of games like me? Is it mean to not lend your games...or not..?
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i lend games to only my brother, and to my best mate (who happens to be my flatmate, so i know where he lives)

i get really cranky when i find out that i lent something to someone, they they lent it to someone else, ended a few friendships that way...
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I'm lucky that none of my mates have also lent away games I lent them, so that's pretty good. The onlt major problem I had was when I lent a mate of mine an orginal xbox contoler and never got it back, and that was 4 years ago. But kept his copy of nba 2k5 so it all worked itself out I guess.
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None of my mates have a 360 cause their too lazy to get jobs so I'm right, but either way im a hoarder as well, so i never lend people my stuff, unless i know their trustworthy.
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Lending something out that isn't yours just isn't on. That neighbour of yours is stupid.
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I don't lend any of my games to my mates even if I'm not playing it because I don't want to risk them scratching the disc.
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Sunday Nov 16 2008, 06:07 PM
I don't lend any of my games to my mates even if I'm not playing it because I don't want to risk them scratching the disc.
thats where trust comes in
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Sunday Nov 16 2008, 05:43 PM
Lending something out that isn't yours just isn't on. That neighbour of yours is stupid.
Amen, my friend.

Yeah - the more replies I am seeing, the less I am feeling like a tightwad.

Its a relief to see others are iffy about lending their beloved games.

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well the main reason for me, is i'd probly have to literally give them a black eye and a broken jaw, before they gave me the money to replace it if they broke it.
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only to my brother, little shit that he is.
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I've had a long history of lending games to mates, and an equally long history of never getting them back; it seems borrowing a game off me is the ideal way of securing some reason to leave the state or even better the country.
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I very very rarely lend my games to my brother, or my best mates who are practically brothers. No one else.

And lending out something that you've borrowed off someone else is complete bullshit. How the hell do people think that's an ok thing to do?
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i lend only to my brother because i have no mates :)

makes things easier LOL
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You definately can't lend something to a friend if you borrowed it. My mates are not gamers so I dont have to worry about it.
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I only lend games that i can handle not getting back.

Halo 1 2 and 3, Bioshock, and a few others will never leave my house.
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Well i only really lend to my brother because all my mates arn't really into the 360 scene / don't own one / or live to far away
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none of my mates have 360s, or are big gamers

On occasion when i'm away overseas I will lend the entire 360, plus whatever recent games are out to a specific mate who is a bit of a gamer (not enough to buy his own console though - bah!). Last time I did that, he had Halo3 & GoW at the same time. When I got back in country and went round, both discs were out of their cases, data-side down on a wooden coffee table.

Now I no longer lend the console to anyone either. He doesn't know this yet.
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I only know a couple of people with 360s. And I only lend my games to them because I know they will replace them if they get wrecked.
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only lend the games i have finished with to my brother.
never lend to any body else no matter what and all my friends now this and they have the same rules. if they want to play a game they come over with beers and play it with me.
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I don't lend anything to anyone. I share my games with Wil though.
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