I successfully didn‘t buy Yin Yang for 22€ at Spiel. This was up on my wishlist back when but somehow I never got around to buying it for first 60 and then 50 Euros. Then I saw it at Spiel and… passed.
(Games I would have bought if they had been available, don‘t count, right?)
Yeah, I think so. So Heat at Spiel, which put me off by being sold by Asmodée – which I knew really but hadn’t internalised, but then I saw the huge demo area, and was reminded that they never sell below retail or have any show offers…
I may still buy it but every time I think about buying an Asmodée game I’m reminded that I have lots of games already and it can wait a bit.
I played this quite a bit as a youngster as well, loved it but it was a bit flaky even then. I’d need to be sure it was much improved in game play.
Didn’t buy it because I have 0 interest in the IP, but I saw the World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Pandemic system game at Target on clearance for $17.99, normally $59.99.
However, this has me potentially delaying a purchase of Star Wars: the Clone Wars Pandemic system game, as I wonder if I will find it similarly clearanced out in a year or so…
Or it may not be available at all
Nah, those z-man pandemic iterations will be widely available. No FOMO on this thread 
I was at some point convinced I needed WoW-Pandemic (I played WoW for more than 10 years) and then I watched a video review/play and was cured. I have a lot of WoW Nostalgia… but a Pandemic iteration cannot fix that.
In any case, there are some good Star Wars games out there and I am reaonably sure that @COMaestro is not a completionist…
I think it was when all the licenced Love Letter adaptations were coming out that I finally realised: the target market is not “I want everything Love Letter” but rather “I want everything Batman”. I’m old enough to remember 1980s licenced video games and how bad they mostly were, so I start from a position of cynicism, though some tie-in games are pretty good.
No, but I may need all the Pandemic games?
Well, obviously not, as I did not get the WoW version yesterday, but I do seem to own most of them.
Hundreds. For some reason the Buy/sell page on Facebook here in NZ is on fire lately. I have see plenty of games I would fancy, but I am done for the year. Specially with Tindaya on the way, and 3 crowdfunding games still to be played (namely Northgard: Uncharted Lands, Endless Winter: Paleoamericans and Tiny Epic Dungeons)
Dungeon of the Mad Mage, from the line of “D&D adventure system” boardgames. I have Castle Ravenloft and I decided a while back that if I got another it would be the Mad Mage; but I had a chance to pick it up at a good price on the weekend, and I couldn’t quite bring myself to do it. Honestly, I could just play Ravenloft, and I have too many unplayed games to justify another version (in another large box) of something I already have, even if it’s an improvement over that predecessor.
I haven’t bought Mini Rails after seeing @lalunaverde’s geek comment on it
I also haven’t bought Mini Rails
Mainly as I will buy Dinosaur Gauge
The only game I recently didn’t buy was GF9 Aliens; now out of stock, which saves me from the temptation with Christmas coming up.
New York City - Rialto is one of the few Feld games I still don’t have in my collection, but there is no chance that I’m going to pay one hundred freaking dollars for this light weight, component light, half-assed remake. Even for Queen games that pricing is egregious.
It’s not up there with the greats as well
Second time that I pass on a good priced second hand copy of Flamme Rouge. You can tell it is delivery time, half of the board gamers in NZ are emptying their shelves… I deactivated the notifications on Facebook.
Oh hey! An interesting chariot racing game from GMT, called in true GMT fashion Charioteer.
Looks up prices, WTF! £80+
Eh, Circus Imperium is the only chariot racing game you need. 
Decorum, I had purchased it, and chose the shop I did because they said it was in stock. A week later, no email, no despatch notice. So I cancelled it, and was going to buy from another (cheaper) shop. Then I thought, do I really want this game at all? It’s cooperative deduction, which sounds cool, but the review I watched said it was best with 2p, so I haven’t bought it again.
Yesterday I received a pre-order notification email for the new Wingspansion and “nesting box” (a big box that fits all of the Wingspan stuff). Given that the big box also came with a copy of the expansion I thought it might be worth it. The expansion on its own was £39. With the big box it was £99 
I did not buy it.