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Is There Any Evidence There Are People Buying To Dispose Retro?

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redblaze57:
Not really nowadays, but I know Superman 64 and Shaq-Fu recieved plenty of much needed abuse back in the days around 2009. But even then that was just "Hey let's destroy this shitty game because that would be more fun than playing it." Not nearly enough copies were destroy to make a dent in the price

oldgamerz:

--- Quote from: zenimus on October 16, 2023, 02:53:09 pm ---It would be insane to buy something with the intent to destroy it and make it more rare. If someone bought 999,999 copies of Mary Kate and Ashley's Meltdown at McDonald's, it's true that they could drive up the cost of the last remaining copy to $1,000,000. But the amount they would have to spend to do this would be way more than $1,000,000. So there would be no reason other than hating both money and fun.

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Ever heard of hackers? well, the ones I've had to experience had $1000.00+ gaming laptops and all they used them for was to bust software sometimes on their very own machines. And mine too. Imagine only buying extremely expensive primitive WIFI equipment, nooooooooo not to play any games like they were meant for, but just for the pleasure of script breaking.

kamikazekeeg:
There isn't really evidence of this.  There has been situations of people in the collectors market buying up copies of more rare games, which keeps certain ones high price wise, but no one is buying a 100 copies of Super Mario World just to destroy it and raise the value.  Have people destroyed games for kicks? Sure, but that doesn't factor into the value of the game.

pzeke:
As I mentioned before somewhere around here, I know of people who've bought and hoard multiple copies of certain games, like Little Samson for example. But buying rare, expensive games just to trash them? Seems like something we would've seen on YouTube by now.

oldgamerz:

--- Quote from: pzeke on November 01, 2023, 10:23:02 pm ---As I mentioned before somewhere around here, I know of people who've bought and hoard multiple copies of certain games, like Little Samson for example. But buying rare, expensive games just to trash them? Seems like something we would've seen on YouTube by now.

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Not sure everyone does stuff in public you know??

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