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Buy your own or play from friends? (feddit.de)
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Your friends have games you like to play.

When do you folks buy your own copy? When are you content to just request or borrow it from time to time?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For a long time I found myself pretty hesitant to buy games others already have, prefering to borrow. But then I see how among my friend there are a lot of duplicates: We have two copies of Factory Funner, Thunderstone, Spirit Island, Quacks of Quedlinburg and that's just what I can immediately recall.

So I'm thinking of ammending my "policy", but it would only makes sense for games that my GF is definitely up for playing. Three of those four games I mentione are or were at some point my games. Both Spirit Island and Factory Funner do now align with her. One I have since rehomed with one of my gaming friends while the other has sat idly except for when we're in the very specific constellation where the guy who doesn't like it can't attend and the other owner of the other copy can't come either or doesn't want to bring it. :-(

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think one thing that is important to keep in mind on the topic of "when do I break this rule vs borrow" is that I think it matters how much notice you're willing to engage in. Speaking at a purely personal level, if I want to borrow Power Grid, it would be with a couple days notice and I'd either bus over or meet them somewhere for a hand off. Generally, once I want to borrow something, I'm willing to make some effort for it vs just hoping they bring it to a meetup. If I was driving 45min to get to a gaming location though, I'd rethink all of this...