Realistically speaking, when will the games aftermarket crash? It's the only way to prevent scalpers from cleaning house at local stores
Realistically speaking, when will the games aftermarket crash...
Michael Scott
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Michael Phillips
Never.
This is your new normal now.
Tyler Smith
It will crash eventually. These prices are not sustainable. Maybe a few rare games will retain value, but games like pokemon will tank since so many were reproduced. Just look at what happened to Atari. As soon as game collecting falls out of the flavor of the month, we will go back to 2015-2016 prices.
Kayden Perry
Emulate. Simple as.
Jose Russell
Join the game. US copies of games are basically worthless in many European markets due to region locked consoles and people feeling nostalgic for their shitty PAL versions instead.
So grab yourself a fuckton of games and then figure out a way to get cheap shipping from Europe to US where you can re-sell the games at massive profit. Something you paid 10 euros in Spain for might be going for 100 bucks in USA.
Gavin Taylor
When people stop being faggots and realize you can pirate for $0 and get the same experience. Anyone who lets themselves get taken advantage of like this doesn't deserve to live.
Joshua Murphy
They really aren't. The internet pretty much equalizes the market.
Levi Parker
PS5: Can't be pirated
Xbox: Can't be pirated for almost a decade by now
Switch: Anything but the first run V1 needs expensive modchips, which defeats the purpose of getting free games.
PC: Picrel
We're entering the dark age of piracy.
Brody Garcia
>bag fee
What
they charge you money
for a plastic bag
shit you get from free from any drugstore
Aiden Jones
Are you fucking retarded? This is about old games.
Jeremiah Price
>When people stop being faggots and realize you can pirate for $0 and get the same experience.
That's the problem, though. The people doing this are the same kinds of people on reddit kvetching about the poor feelings of small indie developer nintendo
Ayden Bennett
not really, pokemon is the only franchise in history that has consistently gained new fans instead of losing them over the years
it's literally the most profitable brand ever, and new fans are being born faster than old ones are dying out
Ryder Kelly
The thread did not mention specifically retro games.
it wont die, but the prices the games are selling at will
Matthew Foster
>The thread did not mention specifically retro games.
Yeah man I'm sure people are out there scalping physical versions of current games where anyone can get a digital copy in seconds. Huge market right there.
Matthew Torres
not really, the thing with pokemon fans is that they don't sell, they hoard. as normalfags sell more of their copies, we are approaching the point where every old pokemon game is either in the hands of a collector or a fan
Jose Rodriguez
they actually are
Logan Gray
I still doesn't mean that the prices are crash proof. They even had a bubble recently that has since corrected itself, although it is pumping back up to crazy prices again. See emerald: pricecharting.com
Gavin Bennett
prices are never going back to what they used to be, user. videogames used to be grossly underestimated as a commodity
these fluctuations are meaningless in the big picture of things
people have merely realized that this old shit is actually valuable and expensive, and since the amount of potential buyers will only increase while units on sale have a very limited stock, this naturally leads to a skewed demand and offer balance.
i will never be able to collect nes and snes games for pennies, because i was fucking poor until last year so i can only afford common pal psx games :( which luckily are my favourites
Aaron Robinson
It may see that way user but things can change rapidly. Look at what happened to Atari games. Right now we are in the peak time of nostalgia for the 80s/90s/00s and game collecting is currently in. It won't always be. It may take 10 to 20 years, but eventually people will move on. Another example is Elvis Memorabilia which sold for boat loads in the 90s when Elvis nostalgia was at its peak, and then it crashed once Elvis nostalgia waned.
Ryan Peterson
i hope you are right i guess, but when elvis was kicking around there was no internet. modern franchises are eternal in their capability of renewing themselves, so they don't automatically "wane" after a while unless there's a catastrophic amount of disasters
even shit like sonic and tomb raider have continously managed to claw their way back from the grave
Anthony Brown
It's the law in California
Lucas Turner
I was genuinely confused about that like "oh my god are they really scalping PS5 games now what the fuck"
Hudson Hall
>10.1%
grim