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General and Gaming => General => Topic started by: marvelvscapcom2 on June 03, 2016, 08:39:34 pm
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I'd say I am 70 percent Gamer, 30 percent collector. Mostly because the amount I collect isn't really abnormal among other collectors but the amount I play might be pretty excessive at times. Most of us have a little of all 3. I was just curious which term would you say more defines you. :)
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Hard choice for me. I only buy games I like and want to play. I've also beaten the vast majority of my games so I guess I would throw myself in the category of gamer/casual collector.
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75% collector, 24.95% gamer, 0.05% reseller/trader. I love my games but don't get that much time to play them. I do have some dupes due to my collecting, so I didn't want to say that I was a 0% seller/trader. A lot of the selling/trading I do is more to help out another collector rather than for profit :)
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33% each. As of last year my hobby became self-financed as I don't use my money anymore (virtually speaking). I bought lots, keep what I want flip the rest and voila. If you don't do it this way, LOOKS TO ME you are investing, and investing hard earned money in plastic cartridges or shiny CDs is pathetic, because IN MY opinion there are multitude other ways to make money efficiently or pay for your kids studies. Of course all I said won't matter if you are rich, or love it paying for stuffs you WANT as opposed to stuffs you NEED. I say that because most my hauls for my most desirable titles were from idiots who needed cash to pay due bills, so lame how some people can't sort out priorities in life. So being a reseller/flipper is good and no one should be ashamed of.
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I am a gamer first, but also consider myself a collector.
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I am probably more of a collector than a gamer, simply because for a long time I have purchased games way faster than I can play them. With that said, I am in this hobby because I LOVE video games and love playing them. Every game in is my collection because I have the intention of playing it someday, even if that is 40-years down the road. I would be lying if I said I didn't resell, but I often do it in order to pay for the expenses of this hobby or to get enough money to purchase a game off ebay that I will likely never run into in the wild and/or is very expensive. Finding Earthbound for $5, selling it for $200, and then using that $200 to buy Misadventures of Tron Bonne is like finding it for $5 since that is how much money I am out when all is said and done (minus ebay fees, which aren't that bad). But this is simply a means to an end for me.
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100% Gamer
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75% collector, 24.95% gamer, 0.05% reseller/trader. I love my games but don't get that much time to play them. I do have some dupes due to my collecting, so I didn't want to say that I was a 0% seller/trader. A lot of the selling/trading I do is more to help out another collector rather than for profit :)
This pretty much is me anymore. Its hard to get time to play with a full time + OT job and 2 kids plus a motorcycle.
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Probably mostly a collector, but i do get around to playing games once in a while, it's just hard when im busy most of the time and too tired to do much other than lay and watch a show or something. But i only collect what i intend to play. :P
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33% each. As of last year my hobby became self-financed as I don't use my money anymore (virtually speaking). I bought lots, keep what I want flip the rest and voila. If you don't do it this way, LOOKS TO ME you are investing, and investing hard earned money in plastic cartridges or shiny CDs is pathetic, because IN MY opinion there are multitude other ways to make money efficiently or pay for your kids studies. Of course all I said won't matter if you are rich, or love it paying for stuffs you WANT as opposed to stuffs you NEED. I say that because most my hauls for my most desirable titles were from idiots who needed cash to pay due bills, so lame how some people can't sort out priorities in life. So being a reseller/flipper is good and no one should be ashamed of.
Same here I also don't use money outside of the hobby of buying and flipping lots since almost the very beginning. In my beginning years After seeing how expensive gamecube games were and refusing to pay 50 - 60 euro's for a fire emblem path of radiance at the time (way more expensive now) I started to look for cheaper deals and started to get games for free while making some. Only after paying full price 25 each for 2 games I called it quits and started to buy lots and finding deals unfortunately I managed to get those very games for free in better shape and came across them many times >:(
I'd say I'm 40% gamer and 30 / 30 % collector and reseller.
It all depends what one collects, if one collects anything goes It's way easier to find something for a cheap price or if one can be satisfied with some filler titles wich are always cheap. Sure a walk in a thrift store can do wonders, But don't expect to find titles such as castlevania, zelda etc for those prices. The chances are there but very small and especially for older games the boxes will probably be in lesser condition.
If your a cart only collector there is still a chance to get stuff for cheap but if one collects cib and the better games for a low than one is pretty much forced to buy lots unless you want to pay good money for the better titles in excellent shape. If your a 100% gamer I would go the emulator road it's basicly free and same gameplay. There are good games wich are cheap but overall the better games go for nice amounts. Also the affordable titles such as mario (snes nes) even though so common are pretty expensive when cib.
If you want to pay full or decent prices for the better games wich are way to expensive I'd say be my guest ;)
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I would say 75% gamer, 24% collector, 1% reseller. I just have never rrally gotten into reselling things yet, though I have a couple of times. I'm still trying to build my collection! ;D
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For me it should be 90% gamer and 10% collector if I still were single, yeah right because a freaking almost 40 years single would be pathetic but if I were it guess that will be 90% gamer and 90% collector, bills, services really took most of my cash and it's one of the main reasons why my collection haven't became what I want >:(
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I'll say 90% gamer, 9.99% collector and .01% reseller. When I buy a game, best believe that it will get played. Usually to completion. That said, there are certain franchises I just love to collect for even if the game won't get as much time as something else.
And of course, there is the rare instance I sell a dupe or something.
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80% Gamer, 15% Collector, and maybe 5% Reseller/Trader. I find stuff at thrift shops sometimes and I use that to sell or trade for other games I want since I don't have tons of extra cash for gaming. Eventually that resell/trade will dwindle when I can afford to have a bigger collection of games.
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50/50 gamer and collector. I don't really resell unless its part of my collection I no longer use or play. In other words I don't buy things to resell, better to leave them for those who can enjoy them.
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85% player, 15% collector.
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60% - Gamer 40% - Collector 0% - Reseller
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100% Gamer. I only collect what I want to play.
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Mostly a gamer, but definitely a collector, too.
I only buy games that I intend to play. And I'm not one to pass up a game I want to play because it's not pristine or complete.
I really only sell games I get doubles of or just plain don't like, though.
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Collector mostly, gamer second. Reseller no way.
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Something like 80% collector, 20% gamer, trace amounts of reseller. Like a lot of folks here, I can buy a lot faster than I can play, so my collection definitely outpaces my completion rate. I always refer to my set as a 'working collection' though- as in, I want it to be used. I will lend games out to friends, I'm fine with my nieces & nephews using the systems (although I do try to focus the 2 year old in on the nice, durable Nintendo stuff). It's there to be played, even if I'm not the one doing it.
As a general rule, I don't resell anything. If I have a double of something or a game I don't want, I'm a lot more likely to give it away than sell it. I have done a lot more of it in the last year than I have in ages. A co-worker told me last year how badly she wanted an NES for her husband's birthday, so I sold her my old loaner console (since no one had borrowed it for a couple years). I've also recently gone through my Genesis/NES/SNES collections to remove sports & licensed titles I don't play. This has resulted in 1 (now closed) sales thread on another forum, 1 eBay sale, and 1 box of a dozen games of undecided fate. Once those are gone, I don't foresee anything else getting sold for another several years. I may buy faster than I can play, but I am picky about what comes in- if I buy it, it's because I want it here for good.
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Most of the time I am at about 75% collector and 25% gamer. This is still the case with console games. However, I play a lot of computer games. Taking that into consideration, I am at lease 50% gamer. A 50/50 split is maybe pretty close to correct.
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60% collector. 35% gamer, 5% reseller
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Gamer first, collector second.
I'm not a reseller, only time I get rid of games is when I upgrade condition and then I just trade them in to the retro store in town. I'm not interested in online selling. Probably lose a lot of money as a result but what can you do.
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75% gamer, 25% collector. When I was younger my older brother was usually the one to get video games, so I played his and sometimes still borrow his games. Recently I've been able to buy my own games, so I've been doing that. Only games I intend to play, though. No sense wasting money on sports games for the purpose of expanding the collection.
One day when I own most of the games I want to play, I'll probably buy them for the sake of completion. Who knows, I might find a hidden gem.
Finding Earthbound for $5, selling it for $200, and then using that $200 to buy Misadventures of Tron Bonne is like finding it for $5 since that is how much money I am out when all is said and done (minus ebay fees, which aren't that bad). But this is simply a means to an end for me.
Where in the world do you find Earthbound for $5?
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60% Collector
30% Gamer
10% Reseller
Older stuff I tend to mainly collect. Newer stuff I only buy to play.
Then there's that other 10%. One weekend a year I am a full on reseller. I rent a booth at Retropalooza and have a blast raising money to spend on games. I've bought a lot of expensive games this way... Little Samson, Power Blade 2, and the like. I'm not too proud. I sell at about 65%-75% of PriceCharting and I sell everything I have. Bring on the Flintstones!
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I'd have to say...
50% collector. I buy most any game even though I have no interest in playing it. Like sport games and shovelware games.
40% gamer. I'm always playing something new and old. (been playing a lot on my Donkey Kong and Pac-Man arcades) ;)
10% reseller. I buy a lot of extras from garage sales, but I only sell games to help support my hobby.
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I am a collector 60% Gamer 40%. the only thing I resold was an N64 and some games 4 controllers for $20 I needed to buy food for my apartment. but today I don't plan on reselling anything unless I'm desperate. I gave one of my PlayStation 3's and one of My GameCube's away before, not sold.
I don't buy things to turn a profit, so even if it's cheap, If I already have it I won't try to buy it. but I did a few times to replace one I had that I loved that happened to be rotted or broken or badly scratched in a circle, because you usually can't repair a CD/DVD of any kind with a spin scratch. or disc rot.
I usally buy a game that looks interesting and I have a big collection mainly because it's 99% retro I don't buy a lot of RPG's or modern games in which if I did I would be paying a lot more money.
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I am probably more of a collector than a gamer, simply because for a long time I have purchased games way faster than I can play them. With that said, I am in this hobby because I LOVE video games and love playing them. Every game in is my collection because I have the intention of playing it someday, even if that is 40-years down the road. I would be lying if I said I didn't resell, but I often do it in order to pay for the expenses of this hobby or to get enough money to purchase a game off ebay that I will likely never run into in the wild and/or is very expensive. Finding Earthbound for $5, selling it for $200, and then using that $200 to buy Misadventures of Tron Bonne is like finding it for $5 since that is how much money I am out when all is said and done (minus ebay fees, which aren't that bad). But this is simply a means to an end for me.
It's funny how much things can change over time.
At this point I feel like I'm maybe 10% collector and 90% gamer. Most of the games i buy now are newer releases that I play pretty soon after buying them. I rarely buy retro games anymore, most because I have 98% of everything I've ever wanted and also because they are in very short supply these days. Hell, I've even been selling parts of my collection slowly which is the opposite of collecting, however I am still probably accumulating slightly more games than I am purging.
But yeah, I've definitely shifted my focus to actually playing my games more versus tryin to acquire more and more. I feel like I probably reached that point in collecting around the time I posted this where I had most of what I wanted, but I continued to try and find reasons to collect since I was still really into the hunt and the high of buying a new game. I still enjoy buying games, but my appreciation for actually playing a game has become more my focus.
As for recouping my expenses as a collector I don't really do this much anymore either mostly because of what I just said about collecting, and also there just isn't that much to be found anymore to sell, at least at a price cheap enough where a decent amount of money can be made. I feel like when I began collecting I was probably making everything I spent on games back plus an additional 50% profit. Around the time of my original post back in 2016 it was probably me recovering half of what I spent of games at most.
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50% gamer 50% collector 0% seller
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Mostly a collector right now, if I'm honest. I just haven't reached that definitive point in my life yet where I want to relax and just invest a bunch of time into playing. I've heard others mention the strategy of collecting to play at retirement... that's kind of my excuse right now. Maybe not retirement, but I want to "finish" collecting before I really start to get into playing. For whatever reason, I just can't juggle both at the same time.
I realized that there's plenty more I wanted to grab, but I'm making solid progress with my goals as of late and there is an end on the horizon. Who knows, I might end up not even keeping a chunk of the things I've picked up over the years. I'm already planning a purge in the not so distant future, mostly of things I picked up in error long ago, namely a lot of strategy and RPG games. But I wouldn't be surprised to see my collection begin to be refined in the coming years with the loss of some games, and the addition of others. Less major time commitment games, and more pick up and play ones overall.
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As of this summer, I have leaned towards 90% gamer, 10% collector as I feel at this point that I dont feel the need to pick up just about any random anything to add to the collection like I used to. In fact prior to this thanksgiving, the last time I bought this many games in a given month was earlier this year was back in April. Now to be fair, there have been some games I have been getting on PC since getting a gaming laptop but for the most part they were just existing games I have so they werent really new nor physical so safe to say I have been weaning off. Plus I had taken a bunch of games that I had no desire to play them and sold them off or trade in and now I have bit more room than I had before for my shelves which for me was a relief because I felt like clutter was around me even though I have my stuff organized. That said, my priority this coming year with gaming is more playing what I have and less buying. If I intend to buy, it will be either something thats coming up or something that I want rather than whatever lying around for next to nothing. I feel like my collection where it stands is at a good point where other than a few things, I dont desire too much now.
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70% collector 29% gamer 1% reseller
I find myself playing a lot more arcade games lately and only a handful of console games I pick up. Most you can run through in less than 30 minutes.
It’s rare that I sell something once I buy it. I don’t typically buy lots because I don’t have the time to try and flip all the crap I don’t want to keep.
Most of my dupes will eventually be traded down the road if I ever come across the hard to find stuff I’m looking for.
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A gamer. I like having the physical copy of a game but at the end of th day idc, as long as I can play the game.
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Definitely more of a gamer than a collector now. My wish list only has three currently released games on it.
Not a reseller. I've considered it but it seems like too much of a hassle to start selling on eBay. I'd rather trade in at a game store.
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I’m all three equally. While sporadically at the moment, I still play my games; I’m obviously a collector given all the crap I’ve amassed over the years, not only related to video games, but in regards to other hobbies; and I’m, to the dismay of some, a reseller as well. I’ve recently bought a good number of lots specifically with the intention of reselling. This is something I’ve been doing for the longest time now, and admit at times I would feel ashamed, but I sincerely could care less whatever stigma that word carries anymore—reselling helps me fund this hobby for the most part. One thing is for sure, though; I may be a reseller, but definitely not a scalper.
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I'm a collector. I had a rather large collection years ago and regrettably sold it all. I started amassing my collection again about two years ago. I'm up to 27 systems currently and always looking for more. I'm mostly collecting game wise for the Playstation systems. I'll grab games for other systems if they're a good deal, but my main focus is on PS. Lately it's been the survival horror genre exclusively.
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Can I say the three of them ?, I do collect those games that I love so I do play with them but if I want to purchase a new game and I don't have the money don't have any problem in selling one of my titles to get a new one.