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

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dreama1:

--- Quote from: stealthrush on July 09, 2016, 02:08:08 am ---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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It's probably because arcade games are shorter, well it's the conclusion I drew from it.

sworddude:

--- Quote from: necrosexual on July 08, 2016, 09:30:34 pm ---
--- 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.))

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I do see your point 10K is not easily aquired by everyone and medical bills are important if one has some handicap or ilness It's priority number one.

I just see allot of people selling their collection for around 10K and go on a vacation for a month or 2 that's a waste in my eyes.

My collection is worth allot more than 10K but I won't sell it, money ain't an issue aside that it won't be a life chancer for me.

Well to be fair it definitly would be a life chancer but the only thing that would chance big time is that I would quit collecting for good since I sold it all and I guess I would play way less games. There is no reason to go back it will take way to long to get nice stuff for cheap especially in excellent shape cib,

I do wonder what I would do in my spare time though ::)

necrosexual:

--- Quote from: sworddude on July 09, 2016, 03:55:38 am ---
--- Quote from: necrosexual on July 08, 2016, 09:30:34 pm ---
--- 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.))

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I do see your point 10K is not easily aquired by everyone and medical bills are important if one has some handicap or ilness It's priority number one.

I just see allot of people selling their collection for around 10K and go on a vacation for a month or 2 that's a waste in my eyes.

My collection is worth allot more than 10K but I won't sell it, money ain't an issue aside that it won't be a life chancer for me.

Well to be fair it definitly would be a life chancer but the only thing that would chance big time is that I would quit collecting for good since I sold it all and I guess I would play way less games. There is no reason to go back it will take way to long to get nice stuff for cheap especially in excellent shape cib,

I do wonder what I would do in my spare time though ::)

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i'd probably go back to collecting after haha.
but probably much more limited than now. ie, only games i truly -want-. some of the super rares i want, for instance. i'd prolly never amass a video game armystore worth ever again fo' sho'.
i'd basically say, ay, i have like $30k left over.

time to spend it on the ones i want back and the rest can stay gone
LOL

i like having a bunch of dust collectors what can i say.

but yeah, selling $10k worth for a vacation is a bit silly imo. like as kickass as it would be to idk, go to the UK for a few weeks, i'll, ehm, pass.

bikingjahuty:
As a kid I was really into video games, however around the time I was 15 or so I had a lot of shit going on in my life and lost all interest in gaming. Depression did have something to do with this, but is was mostly I just didn't see the point in it all. About 6-years later around 2009 I began to feel massive nostalgia for the games I had as a kid and decided to start collecting. Since then I can't say that I've ever once felt totally burnt out on gaming. I think one thing that helps out a lot is having other interests and hobbies; one one starts to get a little stale, you take a small break to focus on another hobby of yours for a while. It has really helped keep my interest in collecting and gaming, despite dealing with shitty people in this hobby, rising costs of retro games, and not being able to find good deals like I used it.

In regards to selling your collection, I actually know many collectors that have recently or are currently in the process of doing this. With the exception of one of them, all of them are doing it because of burnout. And these are not small collections either, we're talking 2000+ game collections. A lot of them were hardcore collectors at one time, spending most of their free time in the pursuit of games. Despite finding good deals often, I can see how this might get old; as they say too much of a good thing can be a bad thing. I also feel like the collecting crash has began and this is a symptom of it.

In regards to my collection, I have downsized it over the past year, but nothing super significant. I sold off a bunch of NES, SNES and Genesis titles that I wasn't particularly attached to and nothing that I couldn't emulate flawlessly on my computer. I wanted the money the games were worth more than the games themselves so that is why I let them go. As far as selling off my entire collection, I would never do this unless it was an absolute emergency. I will fully admit I am very attached to my collection and at this point I like it so much there is almost nothing in it that I would sell, even some of the more common titles. I find it a lot easier to slow down with collecting as a means of saving money than to sell things off to make money if that makes sense.

ignition365:
I generally only feel the burnout from collecting in 2 situations. When I hear about other folks fantastic finds, I get super jelly and demoralized... especially when it's someone local. And when I go out and see thrift stores, pawn shops, and yard sales asking retail or way way way over retail. One thrift store was selling Lost Odyssey loose, as in all of the discs loose, for $10 a disc. Individually. Each disc was $10. They were missing disc 1.

I suppose there is a third. Any time I meet a local collector. If I meet a local collector, my mindset immediately goes to, "Well, can't hunt over here any more, they live over here, they will ALWAYS beat me to the deals over here". 9 times out of 10, local collectors are assholes. Very mine mine mine, me me me, money money money, asshats. I got tons of local collector stories. There are only 2 local collectors that I know that I wouldn't classify as assholes, but one of them has displayed asshole-ish behavior in the past.

I think just my Nintendo games (NES, SNES, N64, GCN, VB, GB, GBC, GBA) are worth over $10k. This doesn't include NDS, 3DS, Wii, Wii U, or systems/accessories.

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