Do you buy new versions of TTRPG games when you haven't had time to play the older version sitting on your shelf?

[Wofano Wotanto]

No. I'd be more emphatic if the site's profanity blocker would let me.

If a game didn't get played the first time around, I sure don't need a newer version of it collecting dust too. I might buy a new edition of something that saw (or is seeing) use, but that's really a case by case thing.

 

[Voadam]

A sometimes thing. If there is a good deal on a line I am interested in such as a big bundle with a large discount then more likely. Just on its own that is less attractive for my monthly rpg budget and no rush on priority.

 

[Umbran]

If you find the person of your dreams, you don't continue looking - you marry them and settle down

Games are not people, that you should view your connection to them a marriage.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Pretty much same here - or at least if there's any significant shifts between the old and new version. For example, I haven't picked up the new edition of The One Ring, because it's not clear if it's actually that different than the Cubicle 7 version I already have.

The new version of TOR is largely compatible with the original, and in many places covers new ground,, so that's a selling point to me at least.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I love reading games, and I would play all the ones I own (at least a little) if I could. But time and interested players means my actual playing is going to be a lot more limited than my interest, so I will always have games I buy and read but don't play.

 

[sevenbastard]

I'm not opposed to it. If I bought a game and didn't play it, but then they came out with a better version that fixed something I didn't like in the first version, yeah I might buy it.

 

[Theory of Games]

Games are not people, that you should view your connection to them a marriage.

Obviously you've never met THE ONE.

 

[Umbran]

Obviously you've never met THE ONE.

No. I am simply polygamerous.

Edit to add: That may have been funny, but really, no. Games are not people, and marriage is an inappropriate metaphor for one's relationship to them. Which is not to say that you can't play what you want, and if you found there's only one game you want to play, that's fine.

But you aren't married to it - and playing something else is not a betrayal of any binding agreements or expectations.

 

[dragoner]

How about you?

I can give a solid "it depends" kind of answer, I mean like if everyone is playing the new version, and I am getting in on that game, sure. Though usually not.

 

[johndesmarais]

Yes - If it’s a game that I intend to play or run; or if it’s a game I want to read.