Quote Originally Posted by treismac View Post
I'm more than cool with collectors losing their investments to the profit of actual gamers. I can't cry too much over someone paying hundreds of dollars for a video game purely as either a collectible or as a means of turning a profit then seeing the market price crash for said game. Games are meant to be played. If you lose money "investing" in a 20+ year old video game, play the stock market and leave gamers to enjoy their games.
I feel that. A couple years ago I attempted twice to get a copy of the Faria mail away map from people and couldn't get it, just insults tossed and how that I was an entitled baby and so on and was told to use those awful maps that are of little to no help up on gamefaqs or nothing. I ended up after the second row of it selling my game. I lucked a bit later on into hitting ebay at the right moment seeing the game with the map and with an ebay bucks credit (not that much but still...) getting it for like $60 shipped (so the map was $20 versus over $100.) It took me a couple of days of messing around and attempting a few things but I ended up making very high resolution copies of the front and back, then I handed it over to the admin here who added it to Digital Press both in PDF and front and back JPG files. Mirrored that thing to my ISP account and popped it in my signature and I still get the occasional thanks for it and had a good many back when it dropped. Games are meant to be played and the resources that are intended for them should be readily available. Did I kill the collector pricing on that map, probably, since I've seen it fall in price, but the fact I let a lot of people get the help they needed with the game made me feel good, so be it.