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Originally posted by fxho:
Oh... Upsss...OK, without trying to make sense on what he wrote, basically, if you know the ETA of a game, then, you can set aside some $ for it. However, if you don't know when a game will be released...
You can assume it will come out much sooner than it actually will and attempt to pre-account for it. Usually this doesn't work too well, because the human tendency is to say "well, there is this extra amount here" and use it for something.
In fact, one time I tried to do this I actually forgot about it, and ended up spending all the money - because my balance was off on my bank account, and I had forgotten I'd logged a future debit; so I gradually (totally unintentionally) omitted debits until I arrived at what I thought was the right value. Then I realized what had happened and I was like "...I'm lame, aren't I?"