Calling all poorfags. What's it like being a gamer when you don't have much money?

Calling all poorfags. What's it like being a gamer when you don't have much money?

>be richfag
>no games worth purchasing since 07

its called torrents user, welcome to the 21st century

Fine since torrents exist.

Lots of emulation

tfw university blocks all p2p connections

It's pretty easy because most PC games are so cheap. If you had a Steam account back when the sales were still good and if you took advantage of the good Humble Bundles, you should already have hundreds of games on Steam and probably didn't invest more than the cost of 4 or 5 full-price "AAA" games in total. If you like older games, it's even easier, because the games you enjoy most are in the fucking bargain bin. But if you're a pleb who only wants to buy $60 games then I guess you're fucked.

I don't have much money, but time is what really prevents me from playing games. Despite not spending more than $5 on a game in ten years, I've still accumulated games faster than I have time to play them.

PC gamer here
it sucks, because there are many console exclusives which I can't play

But on the other hand you don't buy shit games before you try them
I regret buying Mafia II and GTA IV
but I feel good myself because I haven't bought GTA V

I'm on an E-Machine now so it's basically out of the question unless I get lucky and can find some GBA game I can emulate.

Former poorfag here.

It was high risk, high reward. You had to carefully pick each game you bought because you might not be able to get another one for a few months if not a year. But whenever you picked right or found a great deal it felt so good.

Also you have to be careful around your birthday and holiday seasons to name drop the game(s) you really want.

In some regards it made playing the games more enjoyable but I'm glad I never have to worry about that feeling of dread as you realize "THIS piece of shit is what I have for a while."

Sounds like you were just a kid and only allowed one game every so often, except for your birthday or holliday season

>e-machine
I feel sorry for you.

Pretty fuckin good m8

I have a backlog of so many games that I don't bother with modern AAA gaming for the most part, and when I do I have a good enough PC (from when I wasn't a poorfag) to get by easily

>pirate as many games as you can
>be bitter as fuck when can't play online games
>save every buck you collect to upgrade your soon to die PC

I can't afford a good PC

Check ewhoring

i've been playing MMOS almost exclusively for 10 years on the HP Pavilion desktop i bought at best buy

I wonder if I could trap around on Chaturbate

>Be poor fag
>Play old games

>Now have a job
>buy new PC
>still play old games

that picture's gotta be some slavshit country

Pretty cool. I am very careful picking out the games I want and know are well spent money. I do find most games quite overpriced and not worth the full price anyway. Aside from that they tend to drop to 50% within a half year. It's not long wait. Not to mention, I've got family members I can borrow stuff from whenever I want unless they use that console.

>used to be poor fag
>living with wife's parents
>decent pc
>all steam friends bought me games
>good humble bundles
>few years later
>have over 800+ games
>plenty of money
>good job
>hardly have time to game

It's either poor and gaming
OR we'll off and no time for gaming Sup Forums

>living with wife's parents

I couldn't get a wife just because of the fact alone that I live with MY parents

Why such inequality is even allowed?

I spend a lot of my now-rare video game time playing f2p games or old games. I'm currently playing league of legends and Serious Sam HD. Got a bunch of PS2/3 games to play through, and a couple games on steam that came in bundles or what have you that I e never touched.

>tfw no comfy parents

I'll make a quick guide for poorfagging.

>NES SNES N64 era
Not so much space for a poorfag, you could have like 3 - 5 games and trade it with your other poorfag friends so you all can play tons of shit, mostly everyone will try to get a different game so you can play em all.

>ps1 and ps2
As soon as you buy said console you will pay an extra amount so it gets hardmodded, after that you will go to shitty flea markets full of pirated games.

>GameCube
I never knew a poorfag with this console, not implying it is a richfag console but I never seen a GC that reads pirated games (AFAIK). normally ownes by that idort kid.

>xbox huge and 360
Both can be soft/hard modded, just like ps1 ps2 but this one had internal hard drive where you could install emulators.

>ps3
AFAIK I never seen anybody pirating this. So not an obvious poorfag choice.

>wii
The ultimate poorfag machine.
Gotta invest on an external hard drive and the peripherals such as the controllers. After that you are basically set, soft mod it so you can install nes snes n64 gba (which also plays older gb games) emulators plus being able to natively play (from the external hd as well) pirated gc and wii roms.
Using a gc controller or the wii pro controller is a must.
The wii itself is cheap

>wii u xbone ps4
I don't think a poorfag can buy one of these while they still are "new"

Not a poor fag. But I was never allowed to buy games when I was a kid because my parents thought they were a waste of money. The only way I'd get new games was if they were for my birthday or Christmas. Then I finally was allowed to buy games once I turned twelve...first game I bought...Maui mallard on SNES...but to answer your question...I'd just rent them or borrow them from friends...

>Harry Mason will never be your dad
;_;7

Because pussy.

What the fuck does comfy mean to you people

>Have most of the games I want on steam
>Mostly play Dota anyway
>All these new amazing games come out in the past few years
>Civ 6, xcom 2, witcher 3, cities:skylines, dishonored 2
>Can't run any of them because GTX 260

Soon it'll die, and I'll wish to go with it.

>yfw you will never be Heather and finger your clit

Anyone here frequent garage sales and thrift stores? I got a free phat PS3 at a garage sale once and it works like a charm.

It's easy. I work PT and can still afford to completely support myself and comfortably afford one or two brand new games a month, although I usually just buy one game and play it for months straight.

>gamer

kill yourself.

I'm leeching off a friend. :P

lol I also have an emachine. Works fine for me. Got it for free and just deleted everything, factory reset it, and always keep it up to date and I never have an issue.

>ps3
>AFAIK I never seen anybody pirating this. So not an obvious poorfag choice.

I don't remember how long it took for ps3 to be cracked after release, but you can install CFW on fat and some slim models.

I've been a poorfag gamer and I'm now a middle class fag, and I think being a poorfag gamer was better. You had to pick a few select games to grind and get super good at, and once you got to a certain skill threshold you basically unlocked a whole new sphere of enjoyment from it. As somebody with enough money to get whatever game I want, I find that I just bounce around every week or so and am painfully average at all of them. I get bored too quickly and move on.

My girlfriend pays most of the bills

>poorfag
>using consoles

not poorfagging correctly

What the fuck is bittorrent

Cozy I guess? I'm using a T420 for older PC games and most indies, while my PS4 gets free games every month along with shareplaying with someone who buys digitally.

The only vidya I buy is 3DS games and PS4 games that my friend doesn't like.

>Serious Sam HD
Nice.

easy when you're patient and pirate

>tfw I wouldnt be a poorfag if I just asked for more hours

You either mostly play old shit, you mostly play shit on huge sales, or you don't play shit for months and eventually buy the good stuff.

Not sure if I'm considered poor but I can't bring myself to buy a new TV or monitor because I still love my comfy shitty 32" refurbished Vizio TV from 2012.

Before I got my monthly autism bux I just pirated everything.

this 100%
get a job to buy a nice computer then just pirate literally everything

Not really that much of a poorfag then

I was talking more about hacking consoles or custom firmware.

This. Only people that suffer are the ones that need to play the newest fad game. I know someone that bought mafia 3 despite all my urging just to go "wow, this sux bro"

All the games I like are old enough to be emulated or bought on ebay for less than 20 bucks and the only modern games I buy are 3ds games which are only 40.

I literally work 10 hours a week making sandwiches and that was more than enough to pay for a beefy computer in a short amount of time

U can pirate on toasters too user...

Well no shit, but the patience bit was referring to not updating consoles or handhelds so you can install custom firmware. Anyone can pirate on a computer they most likely already own. Games don't take much to run these days. I'm still on my Trinity A10 and am barely feeling like I need to upgrade.

>Have a cheapo laptop with only 4g of ram on it
>Still have an endless amount of shit to pirate and play to last me till I have gray in my hair

OPs pic does look comfy as fuck though.

emuparadise+nicoblog+sales

I only pump money into a pc since it can game and do work. I buy all games on sale or on key sites. It's not that bad.

emulation, counter-strike, minecraft, factorio, any source engine game, lot's of indie games.
KSp, .. shit like that. it's actually not bad.

wish i could play mgs5, uncharted, last of us and some of those games.

most AAA games i can seriously do without.

I am a NEET living with my parents, if I do my chores I get a full price game every other month

It fucking sucks, you spend all day with nothing to do because you're a retard who only has one hobby and based his life around video games.
You read about great games others are enjoying or coming out, you get really hyped but never get to play the game, by the time you got dosh for the game the hype is gone.

You spend months scrimping and scraping together money in order to buy a game that will last for months.
Video games is the worst fucking hobby if you have no income.
I can't afford a decent pc and got a PS4 for my 21, I am almost 23 and I have five games for it, in the last two years I have only played five games.

I took the year out of college and got a fucking job, I am a wage slave at ten euros an hour but it is a great fucking job, I stand around all day putting stickers on shit, serve the occasional customer and banter with my co workers and boss.
Titainfall 2 is in the mail and I am saving up some cash for a decent pc.
I have no responsibilities since I am live at home and I am in college so I can blow the four hundred euros I make a week on what ever I wanted.

I have less time but this is the year of vidya for me.

I will never understand how video games can be a person's only hobby.

Think about that 5000 hours on steam in one game user.

They are so good they consume your life and up until a few year ago most of them were single player existences.

I have a few hobbies like reading or walking my dogs but that is it, I got bored of tv long ago.
Video games are just the best time consumers out there.
Now that I have money I think I will take up a martial art.

I lived with my wife's son's parents for a while and I had plenty of time to game every night because she liked hanging out with her guys friends pretty late

I've got like 700 in Left 4 Dead 2 but I like music more than vidya, I think. Not enough of a nerd to go to Sup Forums.
I did judo since 13 and got into a fight last night. Nothing more satisfying than flooring some faggot ass whiteboi who wants to start shit with you after a pretty shit day at work.

I play music but I mainly got interested because of videogames believe it or not.

It's great. You get all the games you want for free and you get to spend your money on actual important stuff.

>but I like music more than vidya
Why not both you nerd?

>Nothing more satisfying than flooring some faggot ass whiteboi who wants to start shit with you after a pretty shit day at work.
Ya see this is what I want, I got bullied all my life and I never want to be bullied again.
I want to learn a Martial art and if I ever have kids teach them from the earliest age possible.

I've got more games that Ill ever have time to play lol.

Well my 280X that i was given just ate shit so its not great

That's fair. GTA, Burnout and many others have introduced many to music. Hell, think about how many people listen to hip hop after watching Champloo or Kill Bill.
I love them both but I think I can appreciate music more in the sense of how it's everywhere you go. I hope that makes sense.
I mean if you still get bullied now, then yeah. I did it because I live in a rough part of London and saw my uncle kicked the shit out of some guy who called him a Paki.

>collegefags

>in the sense of how it's everywhere you go

Makes sense though. Music is a universal appreciation

Square up.
My man here gets it.

Stupidity and poverty goes hand in hand. If you weren't a fucking idiot you'd easily bypass unenforceable traffic filter attempts like that.

>Work part time for a month to buy a PC and a 3DS
>Never have to worry about paying for games again

you sound like a burden to your parents.

This. Although it was aroud 2011

I have a job user. I do what I can.

doesnt hurt much since most things can be emulated but

>can't play JSRF
pains me everytime I think about it

Feels good playing good old games, not getting hyped not giving money to the people who fuck up the industry I could probably find a job but in this shithole its like 300-400eur a month + travel expenses since i live outside the city and it would probably fuck with my university studies

It's getting pretty bad the moment they jumped ship to 8th gen consoles.
Used to get by just using a laptop, now I can't even ran the latest Naruto game properly

But worst of all, no money for waifu merchandise

>Gets 300$ from university monthly
>Spends all of it on vidya

the fuck? my uni didnt do that

and the ethernet at my dorm last semester got like 15 mb/s, I miss it so mcuh

i only play dead arenafps that are based on 15 year old engines, so i'm mostly fine

Playing my PS2. Fuck the new shit, I wouldn't buy it even if I had money.

same desu

at least I can finally play Crysis 1440p maxed out locked at 60fps....

Poorfag before but
>have a job now
>can buy any games i want now
>havent touched some of the games i just bought or became bored of it really fast
Iam tellin ya poorfags, savor that moment you still enjoy one game cause you cant buy a new one.. once you start having money and can buy shit, you'll get bored really fast

Somewhere around 2007
>be poor as fuck
>see all the cool games coming out
>super jealous

Fast forward to today
>Have money
>market is riddled with cancerous, content less, boring, uninspired games.
>cash grabs at each corner.

I think it is time to quit gaming.

>15 mb/s

that's awful though

maybe he means MiB. But I really doubt that

I wouldn't say that'd awful though. I have fucking 12 mb/s from verizon and It's serviceable. Can download a 720p 5gb movie in an hour

Failing mouse which can't click and drag consistently, leftclick and doubleclick which sometimes doesn't register or sometimes doubleclicks when onlyc clicked once.
Downloading and playing older games while playing free to play multiplayer games which I can still run like Dota and at best street fighter V which is at my limit.

noone know the true suffering that is a 64kb modem in 2000. You should be grateful that the standard is 1-2 megabytes a sec nowadays even in bumfuck nowhere

>buying retro consoles when your a poorfag

user,
Have you considered, you're just old and sour.

Different user but no. I mean look at Bethesda's™ new remastered Skyrim™ that the normies are tearing up. Shit is a scam.