Sealed Games: Shame, Greed, and Hesitation

[J T]

I know every sealed collector dies a little inside every time someone opens a sealed game (that they don't own), so I would just buy an open playable copy, sell off the sealed game, and keep the extra dollars your sealed copy is sure to garner.

[Tanooki]

I'm surprised they wouldn't be happy about it, at least those with it already because it will just make the game more expensive. That's all sealed games are good for, monetary value. I figure if anyone can get a sealed game still these days and cheap, if it's one you want feel free to open it, or sell it so you can get a lot more if it's an expensive one, but someone being repulsed by opening it should be the farthest thing from their mind.

[nightrnr]

I know every sealed collector dies a little inside every time someone opens a sealed game (that they don't own)

I have no real sympathy for that. It's the nature of the hobby; some things you just can't have (or is it, you can't have everything?).
Link to "Things You Can't Ever Have" (click Winter 2011, Spring 2011, Summer 2011, Fall 2011, or Winter 2012)
http://www.platypuscomix.net/interactive/index.html

And you definitely can't fault a person for opening something they bought with that intention. It's not destroying the product, just using it.

When it comes right down to it, I guess I don't really care... and I'll explain:

I mean, I obviously do care about both sides of the matter: the collector's fun of having it, the economical concerns, the joy of opening a game I bought years ago, making some actual use of a product, etc.

But, I am a conflict of emotion. In then end, I think the pros and cons and value to every option all boils down to the same cost for me:

Keep 'em and open 'em
+Joy of unwrapping
+Give them a active use/purpose
+Use what I have without wasting time replacing them
+Fight the insanity of sealed collector's bug
-Loses Value
-Denies a demand
-Possible regret

Keep 'em sealed/Sell and replace 'em
+Retains more value
+Fund for more games
+Keeps 'em minty
+Supplies a Demand
-Game has no "gaming" use
-Selling/replacing is work and time (and it's often hard to find nice used copies)
-They are mine, Dammit!

But, I also realize this is a "much ado" annoyance and not worth the worry.
In the grand scheme of things, all this won't survive the apocalypse anyways

[darsparx]

I'm just mad looking at spring 2011, nintendo made a gameboy adapter for n64 but didn't release it? idiots....that would've sold in a heartbeat(at least I would've been begging for one)