No-one touches my stuff when they come over (except for controllers). If they are good friends you should be able to ask them to be respectful with your things. If they don't listen to you, then re-evaluate your relationship with them. I'm Dr. Laura, signing off.
Thankfully the small percentage of people I let play my games/touch my stuff are as anal about it as I am. Disc comes out of case, into console, and back into (correct) case when finished: no playing musical cases with discs. No food while handling controllers (I hate greasy controllers). No taking the game manual into the bathroom either.
I only lend games (as in letting people take them home) on very rare occasions, usually only to my brother (he takes care of me, so I don't worry about him not taking care of my stuff). Most of the time if people want to play, they can play at my place :P
The only thing my friends (and especially my brother) annoy me with regarding games and stuff is not putting the cases back in the right place on the shelf. I am ridiculously OCD about the alphabet. A wondrous invention that allows me to find what I want in five-eighths of a second. No craning my neck sideways going along each and every shelf for me!
I can't stand it when people touch my gaming stuff. My kids know about my collection and I've explained that my collection is off limits. However, they are pretty good about taking care of stuff so if my son wants to play a game, he will ask me before hand and I'll get it for him. While he's playing it, it will stay in the 'staging area' in my office. The staging area is a place I will put game that he's asked to play so that he can go and get it whenever he wants; currently the staging area is holding Luigi's Mansion and Mario Party 6. He knows not to leave the case, manual, or disc lying around, so when he's done playing he puts it all back in the staging area. One time he left the case sitting on the floor and I picked up the game and put it away. The next day he asked me why the game wasn't in the staging area when he went to play it and I told him that he lost it for a week as since I found it lying around. It's never happened again.
And he's really good at policing his friends that want to look at my collection. Something along the lines of, "My Dad will get really mad if you mess that up!"
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