Keith Wallace
New member
Just as a question - how many of you actually let your friends borrow your games often?
I can count - on one hand - how many times I've either borrowed or lent a game to a friend and I've been a 360 owner since November 2005. Even when I was a teenager I didn't lend out my SNES, Genesis, or N64 games... I just didn't do it. Mostly because games are expensive and I didn't want a friend to wreck my copy or be responsible for ruining a friend's game. Plus, on the N64, SNES, and Genesis I sure as heck wasn't going to lend a game out so my friends could delete my save file...
I gather a lot of the reaction on lending games to friends isn't so much that people did it very often, but they view it as something being 'taken away' (that they never did) as an infringement on their right as a gamer. Similar to Sony removing the ability to install Linux on the PS3. I'm sure there was a MINUSCULE amount of users that actually took advantage of that feature. But, once they made that announcement people were in an uproar about it.
As of today, my brother-in-law has had my copy of Fallout 3 at his house for probably 3 months or more (he doesn't play it much). My cousin has my copy of Black Ops II, and has for a few weeks now (he left his copy at a friend's and is too lazy to go get it). I don't let people borrow my games a LOT, but I let them do it for long stretches of time, simply because I am not playing that particular game at that particular moment in time. That, and my friends to whom I'd lend games to in the past are in the military and nowhere near me (one is 6+ hours away, the other is at-sea).