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Anonymous Wed May 6 06:47:53 2015 No.2386463 [Reply] [Original]

Why the fuck is Earthbound so expensive?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 07:07:04 2015 No.2386475 >>2386463 Because of its cult following. As far as I heard, it's not as rare as some people may think. I liked that game personally, but I'm not going to pay however much people on the Web want for it.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 07:15:45 2015 No.2386482 >>2386463 It has a fairly sizable cult following and it's always been hard to find, even when it came out.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 07:19:28 2015 No.2386484 >>2386482 >always been hard to find >literally 3+ pages on eBay

Anonymous Wed May 6 07:22:32 2015 No.2386486

>>2386463
Because people are willing to buy it at that price.

Idk about rarity. My only point of reference is a shop where the manager said he had seen 3 copies of that game come through in as many years. But hell if people are paying that much for them I guess they'd rather hold onto it than sell it to some retro-game store.

If people want to hold onto their copies then resellers will want to raise their prices to make more off a product they wont get easily. Which makes people who buy it from resellers want to hold onto their copy. Same thing happens with import games since people who went through the trouble of having something shipped in aren't likely going to sell it anytime soon.

Blame the cult, blame the buyers, blame the sellers, blame the manufactures, blame the developers.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 07:28:18 2015 No.2386491 >>2386484 There are still far fewer copies than most snes games. The internet has made it so that any game that had a retail release isn't truly "rare" as long as you're willing to pay reseller prices.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 07:45:11 2015 No.2386502 Wannabe retro nerd hipsters are willing to pay that much of their parents money to get it, so why not charge that much?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 09:04:27 2015 No.2386590 Reselling Earthbound was a mistake.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 09:06:39 2015 No.2386592 >>2386463 Because it's the best game ever, other games are simply trash.

Anonymous Wed May 6 09:53:02 2015 No.2386650

>>2386463
Because there is more demand than copies of the game. And the price comes from the impact that the cult following caused on the early 2000.
I just buyed my CIB copy, and man i live in a third world country, idk i dont have money for food help me

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 11:14:12 2015 No.2386749 >>2386463 well it breaks down like this.. >1/3 price due to nintendo game >2/3 price due to jrpg from 16bit era >3/3 price due to cult following

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 11:43:00 2015 No.2386797 File: 145 KB, 565x400, m2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It's been a while since we had an Earthbound thread, troll thread or not.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 11:45:02 2015 No.2386802 >>2386797 define "a while". more than three days? we get like 5-7 earthbound threads for every 1 sonic barrel thread.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 11:49:39 2015 No.2386813 >>2386802 I dunno, maybe I missed them but it seems to me that it's been weeks/months since the last thread about Earthbound and its price. Lately /vr/ has been too busy discussing the 5th gen.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 11:52:26 2015 No.2386814 >>2386813 okay, so this is bait. got it.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 11:55:50 2015 No.2386821 >>2386463 Basic fucking economics you dim witted shit stain. Supply & Demand

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 13:35:17 2015 No.2386953 >>2386463 Because Smash Bros. Really, that's the square root of it.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 20:23:06 2015 No.2387675 File: 31 KB, 350x600, Earthbound.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] People have money to piss away.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 20:28:00 2015 No.2387682 Hipster Select game. >>2386482 >>2386491 And idiots like this that think the game is rare. It actually sold above average for a snes game.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 20:40:05 2015 No.2387704 >why does Earthbound cost so much? >literally the cost of a few hundred kilobytes Do you have an fucking 1 gig dl bandwidth cap OP?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 20:45:06 2015 No.2387717 >>2386463 Because idiots can't tell it's really boring.

Anonymous Fri May 8 14:53:41 2015 No.2391061

>>2386463

I know a guy that sells retro vidya out of his basement from my town of about 40,000 he says about 6 copies have passed through his hands, people just show up at his house and sell him grocery bags full of video games for like 50 bucks.

People just think it's rare because of the box.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 8 18:47:49 2015 No.2391613 >>2386590 well at least you got some measure of money for it. i traded my copy of eb with a friend for mmx1 when i was 11

>>	Anonymous Fri May 8 19:14:12 2015 No.2391720 Because the only digital version is on the Wii U :^)

>>	Anonymous Fri May 8 19:35:40 2015 No.2391830 >>2391061 why did you bump this

Anonymous Fri May 8 20:45:19 2015 No.2392136
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>>2386463
Seeing how it's the greatest game ever made it's pretty rare, who'd let go of a gem like that, so that's probably why.
I've never been able to play it because of this so I guess I'll always be a pretty low tier /vr/ denizen.

Anonymous Fri May 8 21:31:03 2015 No.2392279

>>2392136
>seeing how it's the greatest game ever made
vomited, oh for fuck sake, let's look at this like adults. Earthbound sealed is less expensive that a loose copy or should be, game isn't even that great. Mother 1 and 3 are spectacularly better, the price of it is unjustified; unlike games such as Snatcher, where they are actually rare and the price is justified.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 8 21:35:02 2015 No.2392284 >>2387682 First use of the word "hipster" in the thread. Maybe /vr/ is getting better.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 8 23:56:21 2015 No.2392569 It's cheaper to buy a flash cartridge, so I'm just going to do that.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 00:03:45 2015 No.2392579 It's nowhere near "rare," but it is rather uncommon and people tend to hoard copies, creating some artificial scarcity to go along with high demand.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 11:00:39 2015 No.2393086 File: 22 KB, 256x224, a.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2392284 I doubt it.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 11:50:35 2015 No.2393139 >>2392284 I used it here >>2386502 I win.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 15:39:47 2015 No.2393491 >le meme Hipster cred more than anything else. Since MaternalBound exists why bother anyway? You can play the game with a much more kickass title screen and always run if you want.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 15:55:22 2015 No.2393523 >>2393491 what is "le meme" who are you replying to? what the fuck are you even talking about you're obviously drunk

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 16:12:10 2015 No.2393564 >>2386482 In short, just buy it on the Wii U's VC for 10 bucks.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 16:28:05 2015 No.2393598 Well as far as I know its a American release only, wasn't in England thats for sure.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 16:37:45 2015 No.2393618 I've said this before, but Ness amiibos come out at the end of the month, and I'm interested to see if resellers will buy those up and try to get 50 bucks a pop much like the gold Mario one. "Ness ones are rare, just like Earthbound itself!"

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 17:39:51 2015 No.2393704 File: 202 KB, 640x360, RecentPickups30-THUMB.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] ~$UPER R@RE!~

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 17:40:09 2015 No.2393706 >>2386749 The real price distribution is as follows: >80% reseller hoarding >10% JRPG from 16-bit era >5% cult following >5% Nintendo game

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 18:51:59 2015 No.2393848 >>2386650 Which 3rd world country?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 18:54:23 2015 No.2393852 >>2386463 1. Smashfags are cancer 2. Cult following 3. Meme collector item 4. Smashfags are cancer

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 19:49:08 2015 No.2393964 >>2393706 Don't forget all the wannabe hipsters and babby weeaboos who can't afford it, yet they clamor over it enough to make it more visible.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 21:40:07 2015 No.2394156 >>2393852 U no leik super smash bros?

Anonymous Sat May 9 21:49:02 2015 No.2394169

I bought it when it came out. Everyone thought I was a fag because it was all bad sprite graphics and not 3D or a fighting game or anything. Back then, buying an RPG that looked like it was for little kids or something was about the lamest thing you could do. But me and my nerdy friend Dan at the time, we both saw a preview for it in some game magazine and we thought it looked pretty awesome. I hated the scratch and smell cards it came with though, they all smelled like shit.

Anonymous Sat May 9 21:52:38 2015 No.2394181

It's not even rare - it's just hoarded by resellers to drive up value.

earthbound is, simple put, a meme game. And on top of that, it's for the SNES, which is a meme console where even the most common games are price-gouged because it happens to be the favorite console of all the "retro gaming youtuber" shitheads.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 21:53:44 2015 No.2394184 It's expensive because it's good.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 22:20:39 2015 No.2394236 >>2394184 Mole Mania is good, but inverse to Earthbound, is extremely underrated and can be picked up for 3 bucks.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 23:07:23 2015 No.2394305 >>2394236 Underrated for now, anyway.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 23:46:12 2015 No.2394362 >>2386463 Because it's overrated.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 00:21:02 2015 No.2394416 Resellers aren't willing to drop the price. It'd be cheaper if they didn't sit on their $150 copy for years hoping some idiot will buy it.

Anonymous Sun May 10 00:23:32 2015 No.2394421

>>2394416
People are willing to pay market value. The market sets the price. Resellers sell for what people buy it for. If it genuinely was not selling for $300, the price would eventually lower over time. However, it continues to sell at high prices so it won't. This is simple economics.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 01:42:05 2015 No.2394576 >>2394416 they regularly sell for about that much without the box, check sold listings. that's the market value, deal with it or get a flash cart.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 09:06:09 2015 No.2394949 >>2394421 Economics is bullshit. Enjoy your jobless recovery.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 09:13:28 2015 No.2394954 Steps to combat inflated EarthBound prices: 1. Do not buy EarthBound. 2. Do not sell EarthBound.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 11:14:21 2015 No.2395072 >>2394954 > but it's rare!

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 11:56:39 2015 No.2395119 >>2394949 Make a better repro cart, the nerds will beat a path to your door.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 11:57:30 2015 No.2395123 >>2386463 Because of it's characters revivals in newer games, all the cool hip kids want to play it.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 11:59:49 2015 No.2395126 >>2386953 this, lets be real here, if the characters weren't in it, there wouldn't be a high demand for the game.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 12:14:36 2015 No.2395157 >>2386463 I found earthbound's game at these prices, should I buy them ? FAMICOM: Mother (JP) 40eu Super Famicom: Mother 2(JP): 30eu GBA: Mother 1+2 (JP): 60eu Mother 3 (JP): 50eu

>>	Anonymous Sun May 10 12:27:31 2015 No.2395185 >>2395157 lmao

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