What's your opinion on collecting sealed games or collecting for the sake of collecting

[needler420]

I know how this community feels about the VGA and the process and was wondering what do you think of people who collect sealed games or collect knowing that they will never play the games as there isn't enough time.

It seems some of these collectors play a game of commercialism rather then actually playing the video games themselves. Like it's become a bragging hobby. Who ever has the most income and the most disposable with the rarest and best stuff wins.

I bought this up because I seen a post from another site where someone had about 300 or so PSP games and half of them were sealed. The part that was stupid to me IMO was that person said he probably was never going to open them or play them.

That persons theory was I shouldn't care how someone else spends their money. Which is true. I went on to explain the silly concept about his collecting habits but someone is going to do what they want with their own money, I get that. I'm just wondering if anyone else thinks this concept is stupid like me.

People nowadays shop for video games more then they are playing them. Then they play pac-man for one hour a week and call themselves a hardcore gamer just beacuse they own a lot of video games.


IMO a hardcore gamer is the dude that comes to your house and plays one of your sealed games that's sitting on your shelf for years. Neither person have played the game before. And the person who owns the game gets their ass kicked by someone who's never even heard of the game. That guy that beats your high score 10/10 times and you can never beat his score or beat him in a particular game. That is the hardcore gamer to me.

When I think "hardcore" I think Billy Mitchell and hot sauce. Not some guy with a good income that can afford to buy a lot of games they are never going to play.