/vr/ - Retro Games

I'm with you to a degree OP. It seems to me that many collectors treat their hobby as an endless activity, akin to hoarding. To them it's like collection becomes a greedy endeavour, which isn't about the joy of playing the actual games anymore. It seems also that collecting crosses over with "jewing", or market-manipulating simply put. I have a small collection going, only 10 games or so in total, and I couldn't imagine having a collection of 1000 games, like what kind of person has time to play a 1000 games?

Why not select out of those 1000, your 50 favorites, and sell the rest? Because it's not about playing, it is about the collecting itself, and especially about taking a compulsive behavior (which perhaps, admittedly, began as a "hobby") and turning it into another way of "making money". The end result is that the "collector" has a lot of games, and a lot of money, while the video-game enjoyers must face huge price hikes for games that they actually want to play. That's the society we live in, truely makes you think.