Ever get gaming burnout? What about people who sell their collection?

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sworddude:
I never get a burnout from playing games. There are just so many different games one can play furthermore I only collect games that I want to play so selling them is kinda hard. Furthermore money is never an issue so there is no reason at all to sell it off unless I would dislike playing them games. If I collected everything selling stuff would be a piece of cake since I see allot of games as trash anyways.

Sure one can sell a collection to get 10k etc but to be honest there are so many other ways to get such an amount of money because it ain't that much. it's not a life chancer.

It's pretty hard to find awesome deals and years of hard work, and to trade it in for a vacation etc? I find it Insanity my other family members would do this in a heart beat but those people do not understand the fun of the older games even though they did play them in the past.

One advantage of such people around you is that they have zero interest in the hobby, they won't steal, they never come near it and they won't bother me during play because they find it boring.

The hunt is a part of the hobby, I've to many memories with them games, I won't see myself selling my collection anytime soon.

Especially the bigger insane deals have the better memorable stories behind them at least for me.

@necrosexual

To be fair 100K is a bit much especially if you would go the good games road only.

One needs to have a really huge and nice collection for 100K

To be fair I would also sell my collection for 100K because I could easily buy everything back for full ebay price and make allot of profit. But just imagine having a collection that is actually worth 100K.

If you have such value in a collection you pretty much have all the good games for all the main consoles probably all cib.

You collection would be pretty much complete you'll have store signs etc, people with such collection see things in a different way.

If I had such collection I would be pretty deep in it, I'm pretty sure that there is pretty much nothing left to collect for unless i went the neo geo road or go for proto types, and other autograph collectables and development units.

100K is pretty big especially if you only collect the better games and not in filler titles since those usually not count in value.

100K is not a collection that one will easily aquire. It is a step in the right way for getting an elite collection and it is definitly not a feet that every collector will accomplish. I'm pretty curious what my collection will look like in the future though :p

My point is that one cannot say that they want to sell their collection for 100K in a heart beat while their collection is actually worth for example 3k to 10K

Everyone wants to do that but there are not many people who have such a collection. Do not underestimate it since 100K is pretty much having everthing good except for truly rare and expensive stuff ::)

Selling a collection wich is worth for example 10K at most for a 100K That's just cheating :o

azure:
I don't believe I would ever sell my collection. A lot of the older stuff is from me being the original owner, it's a bit sentimental. I also have tons of fond memories on hunts finding awesome stuff for dirt cheap, don't think I'll be getting rid of it anytime soon. As for burnout, I try to balance gaming with my other hobbies. Don't feel like gaming? I'll read, watch some form of media, do something productive, or just hang out with one of my buds. Everybody has their off days where we don't feel like doing much sometimes, but overall burnout is never really an issue with me. If a game starts to become more of a "chore" I step away from it and do/play something else. All in all what I always tell my friends and fellow collectors; Gaming is a hobby, it is supposed to be fun, don't make it a chore.

necrosexual:

--- Quote from: sworddude on July 08, 2016, 04:50:04 pm ---@necrosexual

To be fair 100K is a bit much especially if you would go the good games road only.

One needs to have a really huge and nice collection for 100K

To be fair I would also sell my collection for 100K because I could easily buy everything back for full ebay price and make allot of profit. But just imagine having a collection that is actually worth 100K.

If you have such value in a collection you pretty much have all the good games for all the main consoles probably all cib.

You collection would be pretty much complete you'll have store signs etc, people with such collection see things in a different way.

If I had such collection I would be pretty deep in it, I'm pretty sure that there is pretty much nothing left to collect for unless i went the neo geo road or go for proto types, and other autograph collectables and development units.

100K is pretty big especially if you only collect the better games and not in filler titles since those usually not count in value.

100K is not a collection that one will easily aquire. It is a step in the right way for getting an elite collection and it is definitly not a feet that every collector will accomplish. I'm pretty curious what my collection will look like in the future though :p

My point is that one cannot say that they want to sell their collection for 100K in a heart beat while their collection is actually worth for example 3k to 10K

Everyone wants to do that but there are not many people who have such a collection. Do not underestimate it since 100K is pretty much having everthing good except for truly rare and expensive stuff ::)

Selling a collection wich is worth for example 10K at most for a 100K That's just cheating :o

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i think most people wouldn't want to sell their $100k collection 'in a heartbeat' and if it wasn't for surgeries, i highly doubt i'd ever ever say the same. but the quality of life i would have with those surgeries vs the quality of life with a fuckload of vidya (mind you, $100k would mean i wouldn't have to find another country, i could even stay in the states, tho atm i'm looking at other countries... the USA is simply too expensive to get surgery in) would be enough for me to seriously consider selling $50-60k of stock... tbh, i only would need $60k to ensure all my bills during recovery are covered, and to get the surgeries in other countries (and would of course pay for the flight/boarding).

in my particular life circumstance, my life would be much better if i had those surgeries, than a bunch of vidya. it affects my life in a lot of nuanced ways, from social to occupational to mental and physical.

as far as coming into $10k being 'easy' or whatever, i can't say the same for my age bracket and general other health/mental issues. so $10k is quite a fucking chunk of change for me. one can say it is if they're healthily out of poverty, but one doesn't fall into poverty by choice, usually, lmao. and once you're there, climbing back out is easier said than done.
i'm working on it, mind you, but ye. probably easy for many here to say $10k is an easy grab, but yeah.

(and fwiw, the only reason i chalk my collection to being higher than $3-5k is because i am the owner of one of those hyperdimension neptunia re;birth 1 LEs that came 1/1000.
that fucker is worth a lot and HDN fans are insane.
mine is used, but it's all like new.))

ffxik:
I'm actually going through a bit of burnout right now. Mine though probably works differently. It's not that I get burnt out or depressed, it's just that my focus shifts. I go through bursts of video game goodness, hunting, buying, playing, etc. I get that overall feeling of, meh, then I get on to another thing. Since my other hobby is collecting trading card games. I have bought quite a bit of Yu-Gi-Oh, Redakai, and Kaijudo recently.

I'm not sure I would sell off either collection unless the situation were dire. I tried last year to get rid of my video game collection locally and that didn't go so well. People would come and discuss it but would either offer me an absurd low ball for the whole thing, or conversely want me to piecemeal it for stupid low amounts. I had a few that were genuinely interested, just lacked the capitol to buy. Oh well, I think I'd rather hock a kidney at this point. It would at least sell quickly ;D

As far as people selling their collections go, you have to do what you have to do. Some people lose their love for it, others need money, and some. Well some just wait for that other bandwagon to roll through.

stealthrush:
Can't say I have ever had a burnout over gaming. At time sure, I may spend less time playing then usual or may go though phases of hunting for a specific title more than sitting down and playing all the way though the desired game.

I could easily see myself selling my collection, if alternative means were available to playing them that were more convenient. For example if something similar to Psudo-Saturn were possible to play a large sum of games on one memory card then sure I'll rip my current Saturn games and sell my actual copies. I try not to hold any sentimental attachment to my games/collection. Although a select few I wouldn't sell, either being my first game for the system or one that holds a special meaning. Not insanity to me at all. If I invested more time hunting for specific games THEN thinking about selling them, perhaps then.

But I came to realize myself, I am more drawn to arcade-oriented video games rather then the popular current generation AAA titles and such. If a game is worthwhile, i'll buy it. If it has a high replay factor, i'll keep it.

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