Well as I already wrote in my "an appeal to all members" topic, I have a bit of a dilemma now so get ready for a huge rant as usual!
This year I became a bit tired from PC gaming. Mainly because I've spent most of my time playing just a few online ones and I did not have much taste to play the other ones. My collection on Steam was growing rapidly and I became a bit annoyed there was no other way than showing it just from your Steam Community profile. I mean, you do not own an actual item, you only own a license to it. What if something happens with Valve? What if some experienced hacker gets hold of my things? These questions started to worry me a bit and builded up my wish to own more physical games. Also lately I had many problems with Steam Support. After like 3rd purchase in a row they blocked my account from buying more games. I was asking them why but I did not get any clear answer, the latest one is that I am getting blocked by some anti-fraud system. I asked "what to do to not get blocked?" No answer. So this really is annoying if you have to write to Steam Support like every week and then wait 1 more week for them to activate my account again. This way I missed many great sales and after a few years of collecting things of Steam, I now think that starting it was not the wisest idea. It has some merits like very cheap prices and having all things at the same place, but the negatives do outbalance them in my opinion.
At that time Vita was being released and I thought it's the great opportunity to buy it. So I did it and now I am hugely disappointed. Sony does not seem to care about the console much, just a few games were released and here in Czech the markets are completely dead, so finding a game for some nice price is almost impossible. And I don't have enough money to build my collection of all entirely new games. Well, now the system is laying in the cabinet, seeming like a waste of money, but selling it would not be worth it because I'd still lose a lot of money, so I am waiting what happens next within a few years.
Then I decided to get back to my PS2 collection and rebuild it. That was the best idea actually and it's really paying off. Most of games are cheap and still quite easy to find and if I find the rarer titles I am always pretty happy. Together with my collection I bought an old CRT television on which the view is amazing. Also I am thinking about some speakers, so every advice about which speakers would be great for CRT television is really welcome!
So currently my PS2 collection is growing and I am pretty much enjoying playing on it, but I realized that I have many really small collections, such as PSX one, PS3 one, PSP one, GBA one. I am now thinking which one is the best to keep.
I eliminated the PS3 one and at the moment I am selling all of my titles. The main reason is that I do not like using Playstation Network. Sony just simply wants you to use it, into games they are adding codes and DLCs which can only be activated through PSN Network. Online can only be played when being logged to PSN Network (however I don't care much about online because mostly when I played it I played in a lobby where I lagged like crazy so I resigned and I am only playing offline on consoles) and people do see your profiles when you play with them. Maybe I want to keep my trophies and the latest played games private? Sony did not seem to think of such option. And the main thing - I don't want to have another online account where I have my things and credit card attached, for me it takes things pretty much complicated, Steam is enough. Plus the latest hack of PlayStation Network during which many people lost money was not very funny.
And you can now see how complicated this already made things for me: I wanted to sell my PSN accounts too together with my collection. I changed passwords but I also changed emails and their passwords so buyer would feel safe when he buys them. And guess what? I wrote everything on the paper, this was the first thing which I did not write to flash disc because I always had this paper in my sight. Well when cleaning up my flat I somehow lost it and at the moment I am not able to find it. I looked everywhere. And now I would love to know how to recover these accounts when all was changed...
Also I eliminated the PC one for some time by selling my gaming computer to get some spare money.
So I am really not sure whether collecting only PS2 games would be the best. This way I'd have only two collections - a PC one and a PS2 one. I would also love to collect PS1 games but these are IMPOSSIBLE to find here in Czech. GBA games also. So buying these from foreign countries would cost big lot of money. And I don't feel like buying the new console. And even if I bought such console their titles would not be easy to find in Czech anyways (beside Xbox 360). After a few years I would not know what to collect, likely there would only be PS3 (which I decided not to use anymore), Xbox 360 (I am not familiar with it at all) and then systems like Vita, WII U about which I have to wait how things turn out. If I did not separate the PS3, in a few years it's games would still be easy to find, but I chose not to use it.
Now the main point - At the moment here in Czech are still some PSP games able to find. I am afraid that in a few years they would be impossible to find so the thing I came up with is starting to collect them together with the PS2 ones. But the main things what are worrying me - 1.) both systems have a few same named or identical titles, 2.) Will I have money for collecting things for two systems at the same time? , 3.) Will I manage to play on both systems enough? And that's it.
I did not know writing this would be that big wall of text, but I hope at least one person reads it through and recommends me what to do next. My Zodiac sign is Libra so I am very flighty and unsteady. I would love to make the right choice which I would not regret. Thanks a lot beforehand!
