[QUOTE="homegirl2180"][QUOTE="NirdBerd"]
Um, no. A lot of games that are hard to come by are sold for ridiculous prices that are higher than what the retail price was. Even £40/$60 for a new game is too expensive and I'm sure almost every gamer can vouch for that - how often do you year someone say "I'll wait for the price drop" because the price is stupid, then you see ones that are hard to come by and soon as you can't find it in retailers merchants and random people double the price for no reason.
Trilogy is not worth every penny of x price, I picked it up for £35 and that is enough considering how old Metroid Prime 1, 2 and even 3 are now you can get them a lot cheaper alone
NirdBerd
People don't "double the price for no reason." People double the price because it's a collector's item and there's only so much of the item available. The more people want something and the less of it there is to go around, the more people will be willing to pay for it. It's basic economics. Also, as I said on my post, no you cannot get the games separately for cheaper, unless you buy them used. If the OP has a GCN controller and memory card and a Wii, and is okay with only getting the discs in generic cases, then he simply has to ask himself whether the convenience of having them all on one disc and having the Wii controls for 1 & 2 are worth the differences in price, among other things.Video games are not collector's items. Even I, someone who collects games to no end can see that. The only games that are truly rare are ones like Nintendo World Championship, Pepsi Invaders, etc
Just because you've found a listing that you couldn't find anywhere else and the price is steep, doesn't mean it's worth the price. And lol you got it for $80, luckily it's a perfect game and compilation, but I guarantee you could've found it cheaper if you could wait a little longer/search harder
You don't decide what someone else values. People often pay very good money to get rare games, considering them collector's items. What makes your examples "rare games"? They were produced for some period of time, and now they are no longer produced and difficult to find. That isn't unique to Pepsi Invaders. There's different levels of rarity and demand, and that's what dictates price. If you wanted a copy of Final Fantasy VII for PS1, complete, before word got out it was going to be offered digitally on PSN, it would have cost you upwards of $70 eBay. Now you can get the same package for $30 on eBay. eBayers didn't arbitrarily decide to lower the price. They now had real competition from PSN to lower to price to convince anyone to buy their physical copy. The only reason that things like brand new copies of the original LoZ costs hundreds of dollars is because people want to have this now rare collectible thing that they can brag about or whatever. I think that's dumb, but it's their purchase to make.
I bought MPT for $80 last year, and on eBay the cheapest "Buy it now" price is now $95. That's not getting cheaper, so your guarantee is false. I may have gotten it for slightly cheaper if I participated in an auction, but that's not what I wanted. The risk in lost time and effort was too undesirable for me, so I decided I'd buy the game straight without waiting. Many games don't get cheaper. Some get cheaper at first, dropping to $20 or less like Metroid Prime 3 brand new, but now costs nearly $50 again. Right back to where it started, and it will likely keep trending upwards.
Lastly, very few people would argue that no matter the price you found for MPT, it'd be worth it. What spike was saying was that the game was worth the near $100 asking price, to him, and was recommending the OP to purchase it at that price. Would he have made the same statement if the cheapest price was $1000? Likely not, though I can't speak for him. You, however, obviously disagree and I believe also misinterpreted his statement. The former is fine. A new game comes out, someone says its worth the $60, others say it isn't and that people should wait for a price drop, that's fine. That's people individually assessing their value of the game. Some may hold out for a price drop that will never happen, but that if that price drop doesn't happen, it isn't because people "raise the price for no reason." They raise the prices (usually after the game goes out of production) because they believe, within what they define as a reasonable amount of time, someone will pay for it at that price. If no one does, then they either need to decide to keep it for themselves, or more likely, lower the price to attract buyers.
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