i am a collector. I keep the new and old games that suck just because i dont want to sell them for 1/3 of their original price. HBU guys?
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I sold almost 70% of my old games and systems since i wasn't playing them. I think i'll try to collect games from now on but make sure i buy ones i like so i don't keep a badone just because i want to collect games.
i am a collector. I keep the new and old games that suck just because i dont want to sell them for 1/3 of their original price. HBU guys?
creepa313
Im the same way I payed full price for a game I am not about to get 2 dollars back for it or lame ass store credit. I am a collector
I sell but it might take a long time depending on how good the game is.I still have Final Fantasy 7 but thats only because they wont buy it cause its too scratched up but it works just fine.
Trading you do lose money but not as much if you dont trade anything in.Holding on too something you'll never play is like saving a penny every month till you hit a million.Won't happen because you'll be dead well before that.
Well I am a collector but only once I have traded and that is with Ninja Gaiden Sigma and Splinter Cell for the PS3 which I couldn't bring myself to keep, but I still have my old games.
Definitely a collector. And not in a sense of, "This is going to be a collector's item later on and can be sold for thousands!" type of way either. I just like collecting games. A lot.
I'm a collector. Though, not in the sense I'm collecting every single game. Only those that I know I'll play and am content with. E.g. I don't like playing sports games so I never buy them. Either way, I don't see the point in selling a game. Never know when you might want to play the game again.
I really don't have any bad games, and I go back to them eventually. If I ever sold a game, and just by chance wanted to play it, then I couldn't. So I have a pretty nice collection going, and it can only grow.
If it's a game I know will be hard to find later on and I see myself playing it again (95% of my collection) then I keep it, if it's a game I do not see myself playing again, or I know i'll be able to find it for 9.99 at EB games in a couple years I'll sell it.Im_singleThat's when I get almost all of my games.
I have never traded in a game (yet).
But I remember when I was young, I brought a backpack full of PS2 games to sell at Gamestop...apparently, I needed someone with an ID with me. hah. Silly me.
I'm hands down a collector type (own over 1k games), but I have been known to sell some games that i don't want, usually to improve the collection and use the money to buy other games. :PGAMECAMILLER
Wow, I thought my collection was big. Congrats on the awesome collection, I'm jealous:D
I never sell games, even if I hate the game. I'm not a collector though. I feel like collectors enjoy looking at boxes more than playing games.Senor_KamiYeah, no. Not at all. I enjoy looking at the scale and scope of my collection, but if I didn't play the games and have fun, I would be collecting something else.
I've never sold or traded a game. I have given plenty of games away once this system is obsolete, many of my friends don't upgrade to the newest consoles for quite a while.
Me too - and only on computer, so VIC-20, Spectrum 48K, Commodore 64, Atari ST.Amiga and PC. I have about 300 games of the non PC variety and about 800 games of the PC variety. There's something special about seeing an original Sam and Max, X-Com UFO, System Shock, Ultima VII, etc on the shelf next to where you play! Also, when you consider how hard it is now to get (big box with manual, etc) games like Planescape Torment, System Shock 2 and Star Trek Bridge Commander! I have a 1995 RPG by Microprose, called "Darklands" which generally sells for over $100 nowadays on ebay!! I would never sell it, but glad I got it around 10 years ago for $15 in a game store (back when they still carried PC games!)! If people can have 'libraries' with books on shelves on every wall, I see no reason why I cannot have computer games displayed in the same way! When PC game playing friends see an original box of a game they have read about for years on sites like this, and know it's a classic, but have never seen or held, you should see their eyes light up! Their sons and daughters are amazed, for example, how heavy some of the old game boxes were, with their 200+ page game manual, an A1 map, an 80+ page spell/weapons manual, a games brochure and a registration card! Just likewith a record collection, because I still own these games, I sometime feel like playing a certain game.If I didn't have it, I might miss that I didn't have it or just play another, but for example, right now, I am playing the first Thief again, because I still have it!I've never sold/thrown out a game in over 25 years of gaming. I guess that makes me a collector.
dchan01
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