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Poision Envy
2012-07-11 10:36:03 am
Club 27 Goals
yeah I guess that's where the mindsets differ. I couldn't really care about having a collecting of games.

Course though on the bright side for you guys, this would make digital games pretty damn cheap.
J_SNAKE
2012-07-11 11:26:48 am
WHAT?

arkarian
2012-07-11 11:26:59 am
red chamber dream
yeah i'm always down for cheaper games
Quietus
2012-07-11 11:58:34 am
Super Secret Area - Dead Ahead!
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but why don't you?
Because my money is limited, and if I've bought them, and am ever going to play them again, why pay for them again just to do so?  This applies both to older stuff, which I dig out every now and again, and to digital copies of games.  If it's games you'll absolutely never play again, then it'd make sense, but stuff you're likely to play again would seem silly to keep buying and selling it every time you fancied another run through it.
tomatobob
2012-07-11 04:26:17 pm
One shall stand, one shall ball.
Quote from Poision Envy:
So how come you guys haven't been talking about the EU court's ruling that people should be able to sell their "used" digital games?

Most of us aren't in Europe. In the US you're still a dirty pirate!
tomatobob
2012-07-11 04:27:58 pm
One shall stand, one shall ball.
Quote from Poision Envy:
so then you buy it again and problem solved, right?

Some of us have better things to do than rebuy a game everytime the mood strikes them.
Poision Envy
2012-07-11 05:15:05 pm
Club 27 Goals
you guys act like you replay each game every other month or something. How many different games do you play a week? 15?
Poision Envy
2012-07-11 05:18:43 pm
Club 27 Goals
again though, I think this forum just has a different set of gamers. I think the average person who plays video games will get into a game, enjoy it for a few weeks, and be done with it. Maybe coming back to it if DLC comes out or if their friend starts playing it with them or something. The average joe doesn't just rotate through the same 20 games over and over.
Prime Hunter
2012-07-11 05:20:15 pm
I like to hold onto my games as well. Some, like a Metroid game or X-COM, I can end up playing every few months. Then there are others I played the one time and haven't gone back to yet, or worse haven't even tried out but they are in my collection. I do like having that option available if the mood strikes though rather than having to search for it again, especially on older games which might be impossible to find easily nowadays.
tomatobob
2012-07-11 05:28:29 pm
One shall stand, one shall ball.
I basically replay every game, often more than once. When you can only really afford a couple games a year you learn to enjoy the ones you have. :v
arkarian
2012-07-11 05:36:24 pm
red chamber dream
i rarely ever replay games, even ones i really love. for example, assassin's creed ii is one of my favorite games of the past 6 years, but i doubt i'll ever touch it again. so does that mean i should just sell it? well, to some people that makes perfect sense, but not to me. i like keeping it on my shelf (or in the case of downloadable games, on my ps3) just because i like to collect games and have them around for aesthetic value.

might want to lend a game to someone (just lent acii to my roommate actually), might want to pick it up years later to try a new trick someone found (as with star fox adventures), or i might just want to tell someone "oh yeah, i've got that game". i also just plain like showing off my colletion to people who are into that kind of thing.

games have just never been disposble to me. if anything, a collection is a nice physical record of things i love, and it holds sentimental value.
arkarian
2012-07-11 05:38:12 pm
red chamber dream
btw i do this with movies and music too, though less with movies these days because i just don't have space for hundreds of dvds (and my music is entirely digital, with rare exceptions).
arkarian
2012-07-11 05:40:34 pm
red chamber dream
i'm sure it's an age thing for some, i mean people who don't remember a time when the internet and streaming services didn't exist properly view this sort of thing differently.
Quietus
2012-07-11 05:59:33 pm
Super Secret Area - Dead Ahead!
Speaking of collecting, I saw this earlier. gah
arkarian
2012-07-11 06:03:05 pm
red chamber dream
cheap bastard didn't go the full mil
Quietus
2012-07-11 06:10:17 pm
Super Secret Area - Dead Ahead!
It looks to be sold too.  I wonder if he made his money back or not.
arkarian
2012-07-11 06:13:02 pm
red chamber dream
probably not, but when you become a millionaire overnight does it really matter?
Turtle
2012-07-11 06:13:40 pm
I like turtles.
Quote from tomatobob:
I basically replay every game, often more than once. When you can only really afford a couple games a year you learn to enjoy the ones you have. :v

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Poision Envy
2012-07-11 09:04:37 pm
Club 27 Goals
surely that ebay thing was a troll. I guess there's no way to prove it, but oh well. I bet the guys over at ebay were high-fiving each other that day since they just made a shitload of cash off their fees from that dude.
arkarian
2012-07-11 09:33:18 pm
red chamber dream
you mean someone bidding that much? the seller said in an interview that he's not sure the buyer is actually serious, but i don't doubt there's someone out there who'd pay it.
arkarian
2012-07-11 09:39:41 pm
red chamber dream
just preordered the last story on amazon. free 44-page artbook + soundtrack cd is the kind of preorder pack-in i can get behind.
Prime Hunter
Prime Hunter
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Prime Hunter: 2012-07-11 09:41:15 pm
2012-07-11 09:40:57 pm
My brain can't even begin to comprehend that collection. Yet I can credit Indiana Jones for the line that came into my head once I read through it and saw some of the pictures: "It belongs in a museum!"

Seriously, that seems like the perfect thing to do with a monstrous collection like that if it really exists. But I'll admit it's hard to argue with suddenly having a million dollars drop on your lap in that way.
Poision Envy
2012-07-11 09:41:33 pm
Club 27 Goals
Quote from arkarian:
just preordered the last story on amazon. free 44-page artbook + soundtrack cd is the kind of preorder pack-in i can get behind.


If more games did shit like this instead of just "Exclusive DLC skin!" I would actually pay money for single player/physical games.
arkarian
2012-07-11 09:46:34 pm
red chamber dream
Quote from Prime Hunter:
Seriously, that seems like the perfect thing to do with a monstrous collection like that if it really exists. But I'll admit it's hard to argue with suddenly having a million dollars drop on your lap in that way.

from the q&a on ebay:

Q:  Wouldn't it be better to start a kickstarter-project to reach your 1 million € goal, and then donate your collection to a museum? Just my thoughts, because your collection is too impressive to not be shown to the public. MfG, Chris

A:  Fine, and where that museum would be? Because very few would accept to donate if the museum isn't at leat in their respective country ;)


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Quote from arkarian:
just preordered the last story on amazon. free 44-page artbook + soundtrack cd is the kind of preorder pack-in i can get behind.


If more games did shit like this instead of just "Exclusive DLC skin!" I would actually pay money for single player/physical games.

yeah i agree. the rayman origins and catherine artbooks were fantastic and part of the reason i paid full price for those games. free, high-quality pack-ins would definitely make me consider not just waiting till a game is thirty bucks before picking it up.
Prime Hunter
2012-07-11 09:54:13 pm
Didn't notice the Q&A, but that's a good point. There would certainly be a lot of issues in setting up a museum like that, location being one of the bigger ones, but it'd still be awesome to have a place with that much gaming history somewhere. I know I'd go see it one day if it was available.