Used Games - Scott The Woz

hey y'all scott here you know so many people ask me where you get all those games yeah that'll do this is a used video game could you tell video game users are disgusting we have sticky chairs and e without socks on so why are video games one of the most prevalent mediums where used products get swapped around everybody buys used products from time to time there's no reason not to i mean the guy may have licked it beforehand but the bread's still good but for as many used dvds and books and cds and clothes and razors you can find on ebay amazon at thrift stores why are you used video games so much more immediately accepted yeah we all buy used versions of these but i hear so many people say i bought used clothes i didn't know that was possible but video games have always been associated with secondhand buying of course you have some second-hand movie and music shops but you kind of have to specifically look for them almost every place that sells video games sells used video games as well i don't even remember ever getting a used movie or album as a kid but video games hell yeah this one had gum in it why are used games so prevalent and why won't this come off well i think a lot of it has to do with how expensive video games have always been why buy a brand new video game for 60 dollars when you could buy it used for 55. i can think of a few reasons but see you spend 20 hours with a game and when you're done with it you're generally done with it why not sell it and use that money to buy another game see most people when they've had an experience they're okay with letting it go to have more experiences this isn't normal but when a game changes hands a few times it's bound to show some wear after a while and because of that there are loads of different species of used games firstly we've got the look-alikes use games that look nearly indistinguishable from new games the game case is spotless everything's included absolutely no problem whatsoever you could eat off of these things then we've got the sloppy seconds games that are generally all together they look fine enough but have some slight imperfections the game case is starting to get chapped look at this it looks dehydrated there might be some crinkles here and there and some light stuff missing like the manual or any extra inserts it looks like the last owner used it as a napkin but it's an offensive to own you may get less job offers but with games like these who needs them but looking at the small little imperfections in the game cases that just makes you ask how did it get this way especially with games that recently came out you ever see a used copy of a game that released a month ago when it's already on its deathbed games just get these random hickeys sometimes like this is my copy of super mario 3d world i've owned it since launch taking good care of it it has this for some reason now my copy of call of duty black ops on wii not my copy of call of duty black ops on wii one day in 2011 i found it on the floor with this gash in the middle i did patch it up with tape and thankfully was in a spot i could cover up with black sharpie but these two moments made me realize games are far more fragile than you may expect which is odd game companies know their products are handled by young children you think they use bulletproof paper or something because this is just the beginning of the end thirdly there's the frauds you see them at the store and think oh that's looking pretty good pull it off the shelf and weep there's something wrong with my warioware if the seller didn't have the original artwork for the game case they may just print off their own at least they're making an effort sometimes the print quality is actually pretty good and can be misleading sometimes i'll pick up a used game and it'll take a while for me to realize this is a lie and then other times i ask okay so you made an effort but you didn't some people use the lowest quality box art scans they can to print off their copy sometimes it's not even the official box art they'll just use whatever pops up on google first you can make the argument oh they were in a rush they didn't have time to find the highest quality box art then why print box art in the first place i have a love-hate relationship with these on one hand it's good to see people care enough to print off high quality box art but i don't want printed off box art i want the real deal i have a man to be and i won't be that with fake luigi's mansion at least with the shitty boxer printouts i mean it's beyond obvious it's fake so there's no fool in here but like we thought this looked okay it's more fun to see the boxer that's drawn on with sharpie it really puts you in the shoes of the last person who owned the game like how did you lose the box art you kept the case you kept the disc the manual how do you lose the artwork that almost seems like it's the hardest thing to lose if the whole case was missing i'd understand but the artwork you have to make a conscious decision to get rid of that and then the stickers oh god the stickers every used game needs some kind of indication what its price is it just so happens the only way to do that is to staple it on why are stickers on video game boxes the most powerful stickers of all time should i get the easy peel off once but those are few and far between most of the time these things have melted to the plastic they're impossible to tear off in one go and even if you do tear it all off sometimes the sticker juice is left on it makes the game case stick to all other game cases around it and then it attracts the world's hair population you have yourself a sticky case with just a great personality even the tiny garage sale stickers can be a pain they're so small and rip in half so easily when peeling them off and who the hell ever thought it was a good idea to put stickers right on any paper included on the product the boxer labels this cartridge has so much plastic space but you just had to smack the sticker right here why go out of your way to put stickers on the artwork itself instead of just the plastic case i guess it's to prevent you from swapping price stickers on cases to get a better deal but who does that i got the cashier to think they were ringing up apples when they were really ringing up bananas i just learned an easy way to get stuff on the cheap steal it while peeling stickers off can be therapeutic i have had one [ __ ] of a day i've very rarely seen any used game sellers get stickers right that's how we get these old cartridge games with torn labels i assume this is from stickers because if it wasn't how the hell did it get this way listen i understand some people just don't care about treating dumb plastic [ __ ] with respect i get it it's just in a condition like this i wonder how could it have possibly accidentally gone like this and i remember watching somebody open a game for a birthday present they open it up and go nice they start peeling off the shrink wrap and they didn't realize they were also peeling up the game case itself happy birthday that's like how does this happen how does this happen what about this what did you like spill water on your game and you tried to dry it off with a saw each used game with a purple heart has a story to tell that i'll never know but sometimes you can make assumptions sometimes you get notes left in from the original owner and back in the day places like hollywood video would brand their games like cattle this is etched in there there's no way getting around this hey i now know this happened to be a rental video game see this is annoying but also a part of history i can at least look at this and go cool but this is never going to be fixed with stickers yeah this is stupid but that's where a funny neighbor who smells really bad comes to help googan you just squirt that all over next person that owns this is going to have the exact same questions i do what the [ __ ] happened here this usually helps get rid of that sticker residue now don't get me wrong i like this but i would never drink it it just smells too bad i i couldn't but some stickers are just a bit too tough much like the hollywood video branding there are some stickers that are basically permanently bonded to the plastic this microsoft company store purchase sticker falls under the category of neat but go away now this was purchased within microsoft by a microsoft employee who really wanted to play whacked that's really cool now why do they need an as large sticker that's impossible to peel off i'm trying everything i can here to be fair if it's just the case that's the issue you can almost always swap it out with a better one the problem is trying to find another one the first thought is oh i'll get an old sports game those are in the dollar bin nobody's buying them i can harvest that thing for its shell but they have their own impossible sticker to remove most ea sports titles have this shiny branding that you can peel off but it's gonna leave a lot of residue i mean there are other games to put out of their misery to simply use their cases but some games they're too far gone thanks kaden a lot of people like to label their property oh some games even encourage that pokemon stadium on n64 had this spot to put your name weirdly enough my copy of pokemon stadium is clean but kirsten just had to write on pokemon snap now for these there are a few ways to clean them up i like using magic erasers dab it in a bit of water and scrub a bit if it's on plastic many times marker comes right off now when it's on paper welcome to corp central this is all fairly common for used games though really enough a lot of second-hand game stores don't really care about cleaning their games before reselling them sometimes they plaster stickers all over the place sometimes in places that could do a lot of damage and other times they just don't even use new cases if theirs is all cracked and sad the thing is these stores make most of their money off of used games new games they don't make much of a profit off of most of the money made from those go straight back to the publisher used games they just bought from some sap in the store they can charge whatever they want for them they can make as much of a profit off of those as they so please so why do they do this no problem that gets cleaned a voyager warranty used games are disgusting half the time in these stores but even the most disgusting used game of all time doesn't even begin to compare to the worst offender of me seeing something of all time [ __ ] out so sometimes when people sell their used games all they have is the disc at least it makes more sense than not having the artwork but having the case like oh man i need more space there some people just prefer having the disc on a spindle i could never look them in the eye but hey that at least makes sense that saves an unbelievable amount of space but of course people who only have loose discs don't take the greatest care of them hey uh here's that game you wanted back i lost the case um i i left the manual in reno um i wanted to give you that back uh i want to give you back what's rightfully yours so when am i looking after your daughter but for some reason gamestop and various other stores accepted loose games like this and where do they go in the gamestop generic cases they just have the game console's logo a really off-center age rating a look it's rated e one zero plus and a very sloppily typed on title who the hell buys these and then for the funkier cases stuff like the ps4 which those games don't have dvd size cases they mold their own and they're the cheapest things imaginable why have that attention to detail why put ps4 games in these types of cases are the kind of people who buy games in the game stop generic cases really the type of people who would say this isn't the size of a normal ps4 game i thought this was a game stop not a witch why go that extra mile if you're gonna put this in a gamestop case i might as well just use a regular dvd one need for speed hot pursuit on 360. this is a weak case with a baseball sticker okay you have the gamestop generic case but you have the original artwork how did that happen how do you lose the case but not the artwork what about the old gamestop cases those were better and worse yeah just some cartoon characters throwing gang signs the gamecube one has a mom buying a sack for a kid and the same guy but backwards let's see how many problems we can find that's okay so somebody put a sticker on the spine of the artwork tried ripping it off this is a gamecube game in a playstation 2 case they still have literally every piece of paper that was included originally for some reason and worst of all it's [ __ ] geist eventually the only way you can buy certain games is used there's no being around that sometimes prices can be dirt cheap sometimes they can skyrocket above what they originally went for brand new and if it's a brand new used game you save five dollars i'm just playing new at that point you know the profits you can make off at used games must be incredible i mean look at all these wholesale lots online you can buy okay i don't need a house payment i decided to buy a bunch of mystery used game lots i have no clue what games are included this is gonna be fun one of my lots came with an empty jar minced garlic yeah i guess to package these games tightly in a container the seller included minced garlic for padding well let's see what we got here [ __ ] yeah lots like these are basically trying to get rid of used games that have been rotting on game store shelves that would never sell on their own so they sell them as a part of a 50 nes game lot and they're nothing more than boo oh my god this lock came with a sealed gamecube game that looks like ass this is my first used brand new video game there were some good gets in here but most of the time you're playing with fire with these lots basically i now own all the games nobody wanted to own now game companies don't really like used games they'd vastly prefer if you bought them new that way they make money see they ain't making anything off of a used game sale that's all the game stores profit and we've seen time and time again companies trying to incentivize people to buy their games brand new in the latter half of the 360 and ps3's life there were online passes where if you wanted to play online multiplayer you had to input a code you got with new copies of the game if you bought the game used it's likely the online pass was already redeemed so to play online multiplayer you'd have to pay 10 bucks now i see a lot of launch editions where you get bonuses for buying the game around its launch window or pre-ordering it however with digital games you can't possibly trade those in nintendo gets all the money from you buying their games digitally sony doesn't have to give a cut to a retailer microsoft doesn't have to worry about people buying those digital games used the war against used games will forever permeate through gaming history and at least with digital the companies make more money off of their products which means they can fund even more great projects in the future or they can give their ceos four more dollars digital is the way of the future that's just for gaming setting while i don't think physical games will ever leave for good digital is definitely what most of these companies want so while used games can be [ __ ] disgusting they're a part of gaming culture and i would love to see a digital game do this [Music] i found dig dug you

Channel: Scott The Woz

Views: 1,748,835

Rating: 4.9645762 out of 5

Keywords: Used Game, GameStop, EB Games, Game Stores, Used Game Lot, Video Game Dumpster, Video Game Sale, Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, Xbox

Id: Tt5ShaI5hW8

Length: 13min 13sec (793 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 20 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/Gibblypuffhomosapien]

Scott looks ready to kill

[u/OfficialTMWTP]

I have never had more anxiety than after like the three minute mark of this episode. Just waiting to see which game case he would destroy next wore on my soul.

[u/ThyPrasiolite]

This was such a top-tier Scott video, all his jokes were absolutely on point

[u/Cosmication]

Those old GameStop ones were the best

[u/TheePurpleToaster]

Scott causes a LOTTA damage. Also, keep the manual toss the cover art.

[u/jherin1]

Those generic Gamestop boxes were basically a staple of my gaming life as a kid.

[u/ComfyCatgirl]

seeing all these old beat up games activated my fight or flight response

[u/cad3z]

this is one of his funniest videos he’s made. his videos get better and better

[u/stolenshortsword]

the amount of sacrifices needed for this video...

that poor battlefield copy. RIP.