GameMasterGuy wrote:No, I think he's saying that REAL collectors spend money on expensive PCs so that they can properly emulate any game they want.
Finally someone got it.
GameMasterGuy wrote:No, I think he's saying that REAL collectors spend money on expensive PCs so that they can properly emulate any game they want.
dtrack wrote:Jesus guys... you are the proof why video games are dumb, because if they wouldn't then most of you could be in trouble![]()
I am not a "real" collector, nor gamer really, i'm mostly interested in the (retro)gaming culture as hobby and sometimes as study. When i started to collect i 've realized that is a neverending cycle and i won't ever be satisfied plus it takes a huge amount of time and money - I don't have neither since games are not my only interest.
Someone brought up piracy. Ok lets talk about how pirate i am when i fire up an emulator.
When you steal a car then you will be the new owner so you have +1 car while the one whose car stolen gets a -1.
Torrent a current game like Halo 7 or something and you have +1 while the publisher still has the same amount of copies. That is called software piracy or from a wider perspective: digital- or information piracy. This is a crime in a way that the publiser virtually has a -1. But it is still not exact becaue it is not precisely provable. The person might not buy even if he couldn't pirate it but okay count it as a -1. That is why publishers stating trading used current gen games is equally bad as torrenting them. And i agree.
Download a free emulator and a game for a system which left the marketplace like 10-20 years ago. You don't have any option to buy that cart from the market anymore and used goods is a no go piracy-wise. You are the same pirate when you buy used games. Same as emulating.
On the collecting side: Ebay killed collecting as a hobby or at least reduced it's original essence. Collecting games (or almost anything) was like hunting. You had to organize contacts, travel (including foreign trips!) to improve your collection. Now one's collection depends on how much money can he/she spend on the online marketplaces. There are no additional things needed.
I hope i am clear this time. And happy collecting/gaming!
Curlypaul wrote:I think the thing that is confusing most of us is that people generally think that collectors spend lots of time and money finding the original article and gamers generally emulate.dtrack wrote:Download a free emulator and a game for a system which left the marketplace like 10-20 years ago. You don't have any option to buy that cart from the market anymore and used goods is a no go piracy-wise. You are the same pirate when you buy used games. Same as emulating.
On the collecting side: Ebay killed collecting as a hobby or at least reduced it's original essence. Collecting games (or almost anything) was like hunting. You had to organize contacts, travel (including foreign trips!) to improve your collection. Now one's collection depends on how much money can he/she spend on the online marketplaces. There are no additional things needed.