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When people left games at your house YEARS ago...
tbonesteak4dinner:
So I have a small moral dilemma here ;)
TLDR: If someone left a few games at your house years ago that have now become relatively "valuable" and you've since lost touch, gotten on bad terms, moved, or whatever, should you go through the effort of unburying old contacts that might be better left buried to give them back games they might not even want or remember?
The deats:
Over the past year as I started collecting games again, I found about 3 games that people had left at my house when we were kids/teenagers (we're talking over 10 years ago). Sculptor's Cut was left at my house by a friend one night after a sleep over and he never brought it home again. It sat in our cabinet for months and then years and eventually got put in a box when we moved. It wasn't valuable at the time, and he and I both had pretty much forgotten about it. I mentioned it a few times while I lived there, and he would say something like "oh yeah, I'll grab that next time I'm over", but he never did even though we put it out on the counter for him. We lost touch in high school and then I moved out of state, finding it in a box years later.
Another friend loaned me Zelda Master Quest and Star Fox Adventures to play through a few years after the first story. (Now keep in mind, I HATE people who borrow things and don't return them) I played through both and then set them aside. It was a situation where he said he was "done" with them for now and didn't mind me holding on to them for an extended period of time. He and I both ended up forgetting about them, and they just sat there. Every once in a while I'd remember and it would be a similar thing where he'd say "oh yeah, I'll grab those next time" but he'd either end up leaving them there or say he'd do it later again.
I wasn't on bad terms with either of these people, but it's just been so long since we've talked that it would be pretty awkward to try to make contact again, and I have no idea if they'd even be interested in getting this stuff back. Some friendships are best just left in the past you know?
Arseen:
If they burn your hands you can send them to me... ::)
but really:
If you can somewhat easily contact them still, contact them and ask do they want them back.
But if it's too big hassle, just keep the damn games.
zane_7849:
If you just sell them without contacting them you'll prol always feel a little shitty about it. Suck it up and try to contact them to see if they want it back. Money is never more valuable then piece of mind.
Mick Dundee:
No contact for years? Tried giving it back several times way back when? OUT OF STATE....that one is a definite.
Keep em. Its been years, chances are they would be sold, or they wouldn't care anyway. Leave them in the caring home they are in now and enjoy having them.
And you are correct, some friendships are best kept in the past. Usually the ones that stay in the past aren't worth the effort anyway.
Moviefan2k4:
I'd say that you should make every conceivable effort to contact your old friends, since the games still rightfully belong to them. If they answer, and want them back, then do the right thing. If they don't answer, its their loss.