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| Blumpkin:
Comic books went the same way as baseball cards. Once people started buying them simply because they thought that it would become valuable they become worthless. Video games are an all together different media. Nobody buys a video game as a long term investment. And if you are then you're doing it wrong. |
| FritzWhite:
I like having games and playing them too. I can't deny that there is an OCD side to my collecting as well. There is something very satisfying about crossing games off the list. As many others have mentioned, I probably enjoy the thrill of the hunt for the games on my want list at least as much as actually playing them (though I do like to play). Definitely not into this trying to make money. It's just a hobby. It's not about reselling unless it's to further fund the personal game collection. It's just interesting to me that some of my more valuable games might not be so valuable one day even though I plan to keep them. Do you care about whether your valuable games hold their value? Would it bother you if you found out your games would fetch almost nothing if you sold them or is it irrelevant because you're keeping them anyway? Maybe it doesn't matter if you never sell your stuff, but I think about my son and it would be nice if he could get something for them should he decide to sell when he inherits it all. I kind of doubt that people in the future without nostalgia for the old games are going to want collect big plastic cartridges to play. I'm sure people will still enjoy Mario 50 years in the future, but will they really care if it's on the original hardware like us? I guess it doesn't really matter. I'm hording all my crap to the bitter end. If the collection really is worthless to everyone then maybe I can be buried with my games like an Egyptian pharoah. Maybe they can play the Mario theme at the funeral lol... ridiculous. |
| e_brugal:
I still don't have kids, but i will start soon :P, i don't see my collection in the future as a making money, i like to enjoy playing and will love to see my kids playing with me and my wife, and let them play games that we as a little kids like them play 25 years ago. Will love to see my kids enjoying the same games that i and my wife played as a kid. |
| Lord_Britannia:
--- Quote from: FritzWhite on November 01, 2013, 04:36:02 PM ---I like having games and playing them too. I can't deny that there is an OCD side to my collecting as well. There is something very satisfying about crossing games off the list. As many others have mentioned, I probably enjoy the thrill of the hunt for the games on my want list at least as much as actually playing them (though I do like to play). Definitely not into this trying to make money. It's just a hobby. It's not about reselling unless it's to further fund the personal game collection. It's just interesting to me that some of my more valuable games might not be so valuable one day even though I plan to keep them. Do you care about whether your valuable games hold their value? Would it bother you if you found out your games would get almost nothing if you sold them or is it irrelevant because you're keeping them anyway? Maybe it doesn't matter if you never sell your stuff, but I think about my son and it would be nice if he could get something for them should he decide to sell when he inherits it all. I kind of doubt that people in the future without nostalgia for the old games are going to want collect big plastic cartridges to play. I'm sure people will still enjoy Mario 50 years in the future, but will they really care if it's on the original hardware like us? I guess it doesn't really matter. I'm hording all my crap to the bitter end. If the collection really is worthless to everyone then maybe I can be buried with my games like an Egyptian pharoah. Maybe they can play the Mario theme at the funeral lol... ridiculous. --- End quote --- Bro you said it perfectly on all accounts. Yes part of the fun for me is going to the flea markets and garage sales at 8am saturday and sunday mornings (kinda makes me fell like a kid when my dad took me to toys R us to get the latest SNES game). Truthfully I dont play a lot of the games I get, Ill clean them up and pop em in to make sure they work. Then they get sealed up and crossed off the list. So I guess alot of it is the process of getting them, but more its a continuous homage to the classic era which made me so happy as a kid. Sometimes ill resell what I get like the other month I got 4 "Broken" (HAHA) NES and 1 SNES for 50$ and ill "fix" (HAHAHA) them and throw them on ebay but the money goes right back into the collection fund. Or if I get doubles ill resell them but beyond that if they get in my hands im keeping them. Would it suck one day if I found out they are all worthless.... well yea that would suck i guess but only on an internal level. If that happens Ill stick with what FritzWhite said and have that shit buried with me and ill challenge lucifer to N64 super smash bros and become the new demon king i guess |
| quickfingers818:
Take it from someone who has sold his collection before that you will regret it in the future once you actually sell it. I can't speak for you but when i sold off the majority of my collection when I was 15, I felt regret the next day. Obviously its your collection and you can do whatever you want, but if its something that you don't get any joy out of anymore, maybe it would be time to move on. At least thats how I felt, and I ended up re-buying my collection all over again. But you have some very valid points. If your financial situation calls for you collection to be sold, then its totally worth it. After all, they are just video games. |
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