On Saturday, October 5, 2002, at 02:59 PM, CcomputerGameCollector
wrote:
[Snip]
> If I want to play any of the old games, they are relatively easy to
> acquire
> these days over the net.
Unfortunately that's true. As a programmer I tend to view piracy (or
abandonware for those too delicate to pirate ;-)) in a very negative
light. Abiding by the law you want to protect you and all that.
> I agree that it is cool to see the contents of the
> boxes, but it's also very cool to own an old piece with it's original
> wrap
> on it.
Yes, it is. Just realize that not everyone values a game in
shrinkwrap as a being worthy of a premium. Another thing to affect a
potential price guide...
> I'm not sure what your point was with the speculators though.
When you talk about more people becoming collectors and thus making
peoples' collections more valuable you are opening the door to the
speculators to potentially have a strong negative affect on prices. I
remember a number of Ultima fans complaining that the prices had gone
crazy for the older games when people were trying to by them as some
sort of quick money machine. People that just wanted a modest copy of
the seminal Utimas were frozen out of the market for a time. This
seems to have corrected itself since the death of the Ultima series,
but I wonder how many potential collectors never bothered trying to
pick up old favorites because the Ultima they remembered and loved
wasn't available at a sane price?
Note: I'm making a distinction between someone that speculates on
games or even tries to artificially keep the prices up and a collector
that buys and sells their games at a profit (for fun or to pay for
their own collection). A fair and healthy profit is a Good Thing for
collectors as a whole because it keeps a steady supply of quality games
on the market.
--
Edward Franks
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