TechXRenAgadeX wrote:I've noticed alot of people are selling too. Id say its mostly because the love isnt there in collecting. For me I collect because i want to play the games. I love older games and the nostalgia is awesome. But you have these ahole that collect just because and have no intention of playing and hording all the good titles to sell at top dollar value. Its really frustrating to be a collector and it really takes away alot of the love i personally have for it.
Who says there's no love in collecting? As Dude would say...
mas wrote:Also I forgot to mentioned. We are all getting older. And our responsibilities have changed. Weather it's school, getting married, having kids, new house, new apartment, etc it seems like our lives change and we have other things in life to enjoy instead of games.
From my collection I mostly sell some of the more popular games I have sitting around that I've already played through. Stuff like Zelda, Super Mario, Kirby etc.. The more rare games I like to keep because of how unlikely I would find them in the future for a decent price.
Here's a relevant article to the discussion. Something of note is the author is 26.
I think those "wanting in" with expensive games are heavily skewed towards the younger age (<30) and more of those "getting out" of collections, in general, are older (>35). Of course, I have no hard evidence of this, but anecdotally, it's what I've seen.
