Things you regret buying

CosmoCortney · May 5, 2016

Davidosky99 said:
And I thought water cooling was effective :/

It is, but a "little" (single fan and small radiator) one is a bit too weak for an 8 core xeon. At least temps don't become critical

lefthandsword · May 5, 2016

BF4, I preordered at full price + premium only to find out it's a buggy mess at launch

Urbanshadow · May 5, 2016

Regret? I usually overthink my purchases, specially if they are gaming related. My newest home gaming system is a Wii.

I regret purchasing alpha sapphire though. I was nostalgia'd at the time and it actually was the same as Y, with less functions and a somewhat cheesy story.
Also I regret purchasing a ds flashcard. It was dirt cheap but I havent got into playing ds titles. It's brightest was installing MSET exploits back then.

Oh also fire emblem awakening. It was second hand and the cheapest you'll get it (about 15 usd) good shape. I did not get past the 1st third of story. I was expecting advance wars 2, and found... something I couldn't describe. Not up to my (shitty?) taste. That purchase was really stupid.

In the other hand, I purchased MH4U on release and it was the best move ever. My 2DS got somewhat destroyed (stick is loosey because I press too hard on it) within the first 150 hrs of gameplay. I did the next 100 hrs of gameplay in my N3DS and still play it regularly, awaiting for generations (alredy pre-ordered!) and "gitting gud".

Blaze163 · May 5, 2016

The vast amount of money I poured into my 2 year anniversary with my first ever proper girlfriend turned out to be money pissed down a bottomless hole since I got her pretty much everything she'd ever wanted, only for her to reveal she'd been cheating on me. And worse than that, cheating on me with the ugly kid in class. Like, I could at least understand a little if she'd gone with the guy who was much better looking than me. But to cheat on me with that rat-faced bastard? That's just harsh.

I also regret about 75% of my DVD collection since my Netflix membership has rendered almost that entire cupboard full of DVDs pointless. Might take them into CEX and trade them in for a PS4 or something.

FAST6191 · May 5, 2016

SLI graphics cards many years ago.
I liked having three monitors (I had four but could never find something useful to do with it so went back to three) but the SLI stuff just skyrocketed power bills and did not really do anything for games. Could have just done a throwaway basic graphics card, or I suppose that THTG stuff. It then impacted the amount of storage I had in that build which I paid for many times in the subsequent years.
Most major purchases I think through beforehand so that tends not to be an issue.

Otherwise I pay so little for everything that I do not mind, and even if I can not use something immediately I can probably strip it for parts of materials down the line.
I have had a few things I have had to fix but what is the point in having time and tools if you are not going to fix your stuff.

On tools then I have had a few things turn out to not be as useful as I hoped, however that usually just means I do not use them as much as I expect but I really like having them when I do. There have been a few times I regretted cheaping out a bit -- had a hard drive reader, could have paid an extra £10 and got the one that did sata as well but did not and could have used it a few times in the following years. Had a CAT crimp tool, could have paid an extra £5 to do RJ12 and 5 months later I could have done with the ability to custom wire some cables in that form.

I could have probably exported myself rather than going on holiday at one point, however that probably falls under work to live rather than live to work so no great worries there.

GamerzHell9137 · May 5, 2016

Dark Souls 3.
Thinking it was the physical copy but you got in the end the digital version (I really hate digital for games that i like)

migles · May 5, 2016

NICE THREAD!!!

leafeon34 said:
The power bank I picked up a few months ago. I thought that it would be useful to carry around in my bag at uni. Turns out there are enough power points lying around if I want to charge something and it was just taking up space in my bag. There goes $20.

i got a powerbank for "free" with a promo, it's a really shitty one but i keep it on my bag
it's usefull at some cases.. you may never know where a wild cute girl with a dry battery ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) appears
back to seriousiness, it's usefull when you go to new places or in emergency
i don't have a car charger because my car got a usb port on the radio and no car outlet, my friend does have the oposite (ironically) and i don't feel like buying a car charger just for use on my friends car..

back to thread:
i regret buying guitar hero game with a guitar...
i wanted the drums, i only liked to play the game with the drums
however once visiting a retail store i impulsive purchased the game with the guitar because i only had a PC and i couldn't find easily the game for pc...
used it for a week, since then its abandoned still in box..

i also regret pre-order an album of a music band that i loved, it was a limited edition 100 (or 1000) units thing, it had a lot of cool stuff like posters and keychains etc
i didn't enjoyed that music album, and i bought the limited thing because i was hoping it was an investiment, would get valuable and i could sell it later for profit...
that band was in a downhill phase which didn't recover...
i will not tell what band it was because i am ashamed...

i also regret other stuff that i want (or already) to forget about it xD

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GamerzHell9137 said:
Dark Souls 3.
Thinking it was the physical copy but you got in the end the digital version (I really hate digital for games that i like)

i am with you...
but you are talking about the steam activation thing right? most steam enabled games is just a code with a useless disc that you can (but will not) use for install the game into the steam client

GamerzHell9137 · May 5, 2016

migles said:
NICE THREAD!!!

i got a powerbank for "free" with a promo, it's a really shitty one but i keep it on my bag
it's usefull at some cases.. you may never know where a wild cute girl with a dry battery ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) appears
back to seriousiness, it's usefull when you go to new places or in emergency
i don't have a car charger because my car got a usb port on the radio and no car outlet, my friend does have the oposite (ironically) and i don't feel like buying a car charger just for use on my friends car..

back to thread:
i regret buying guitar hero game with a guitar...
i wanted the drums, i only liked to play the game with the drums
however once visiting a retail store i impulsive purchased the game with the guitar because i only had a PC and i couldn't find easily the game for pc...
used it for a week, since then its abandoned still in box..

i also regret pre-order an album of a music band that i loved, it was a limited edition 100 (or 1000) units thing, it had a lot of cool stuff like posters and keychains etc
i didn't enjoyed that music album, and i bought the limited thing because i was hoping it was an investiment, would get valuable and i could sell it later for profit...
that band was in a downhill phase which didn't recover...
i will not tell what band it was because i am ashamed...

i also regret other stuff that i want (or already) to forget about it xD

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i am with you...
but you are talking about the steam activation thing right? most steam enabled games is just a code with a useless disc that you can (but will not) use for install the game into the steam client

Doesn't matter, Namco advertised that UK retailers are selling the physical copy of it and the reseller showed a picture with the physical box and no information that the game is digital. I even asked if the game is digital or physical and they said they don't know. So ofc i'm gonna be mad because it isn't the thing that was advertised or said that its not. Ohh and DS3 physical version has actually game files on disc so you just pop the disc out, use Steam key and copy the files from the disc. The disc just increases the value for me, having or not having files on disc doesn't matter.

Ev1l0rd · May 5, 2016

Plague Inc: Evolved. The thing didn't even run on my Linux PC without freezing after a few minutes. Mobile version was great though.

yuyuyup · May 5, 2016

I bought a 7-inch windows tablet because I thought it would be a great replacement for my netbook, but it just isn't worth a damn; you cannot use the ONE usb port while charging (pathetic limitation,) windows tablets have a different "sleep" setup than a simple laptop (google "connected standby" for details,) it simply does NOT replace what Android can accomplish in tablet format. The only thing it's really good for is using the "remote desktop" function with my PC, which works great. But I don't really give a crap about remote desktop.

raystriker · May 5, 2016

I bought this plastic vr headset for 20 bucks but it hurts to wear them :gun:

(guess i have a big head)

Xen0 · May 5, 2016

CosmoCortney said:
Cube Life - Island Survival
Some CDs
Mario Party 5
My computer's watercooling

I freaking loved MP 5

BORTZ · May 5, 2016

GBAtemp Gold Account :C All I got was access to furry porn and topless pics of Dinohscene

Ev1l0rd · May 5, 2016

Bortz said:
GBAtemp Gold Account :C All I got was access to furry porn and topless pics of Dinohscene

Wait what. Where do I sign up for gold?

leon315 · May 5, 2016

PSdead, they said it was still vita, but it was a totally bullshit

tomman321 · May 5, 2016

Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth

It was overpriced and incredibly repetitive and boring IMO.

shaunj66 · May 5, 2016

Bortz said:
GBAtemp Gold Account :C All I got was access to furry porn and topless pics of Dinohscene

That wasn't furry porn, I just hadn't shaved my back in a while.

Recently, I regret buying the 8bitdo NES30 Pro, the dpad wasn't up to my expectations. Mushy and lacked feedback.

FAST6191 · May 5, 2016

Bortz said:
GBAtemp Gold Account :C All I got was access to furry porn and topless pics of Dinohscene

shaunj66 said:
That wasn't furry porn, I just hadn't shaved my back in a while.

I remember that one. In my capacity as causer of flashbacks how about the backing music from the video

astrangeone · May 5, 2016

Pokemon Black 2 (granted, it was a bundle with Heartgold, so I made my money back from that). I still haven't finished it.

I bought Aliens: Infestation - it's a great game, but I forget that I dislike Metroidvanias that are heavy on the Metroid, and perma death is always like getting kicked in the pants.

My 2DS - I'm probably going to gift this to my girlfriend, but I don't want to pay for the shipping and the hassle. Oh well, at least we get to play great games on the 2DS/3DS.

pbanj · May 5, 2016

astrangeone said:
Pokemon Black 2 (granted, it was a bundle with Heartgold, so I made my money back from that). I still haven't finished it.

I bought Aliens: Infestation - it's a great game, but I forget that I dislike Metroidvanias that are heavy on the Metroid, and perma death is always like getting kicked in the pants.

My 2DS - I'm probably going to gift this to my girlfriend, but I don't want to pay for the shipping and the hassle. Oh well, at least we get to play great games on the 2DS/3DS.

That 2ds makes a great doorstop

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