Collectards...

[Tatsujin]

[Necromancer]

If your primary concern is buying and selling, you're a collectard.

Does that not accurately describe the Wondertwins 2.0?

[Ninja16608]

If your primary concern is buying and selling, you're a collectard.

Does that not accurately describe the Wondertwins 2.0?

Who are the Wondertwins 2.0?

[PunkicCyborg]

cat pic is amazing

[madboom0522]

Think hard ninja....You know who happiness is talking about.... Might be the same person who is only 11 games away from having the whole collection.....

[PunkicCyborg]

Think hard ninja....You know who happiness is talking about.... Might be the same person who is only 11 games away from having the whole collection.....

madboom0522=Ninja16608

[tggodfrey]

collecting an entire collection doesnt make one a collectard, its the thought process behind it.  A collectard collects just to collect and for bragging rights.  The investment concept surely follows this mentality. 

A true TG16 or any retrogamer is one who grew up with the system and plays what they buy.  The concept of building the entire collection is done with the mentality that he/she wants to play all the games they couldn't buy back then.

The money one pays doesn't mean much in my book only because whats expensive today may be cheap tomorrow depending on the economic average income.  Just 15 years ago 30.00 filled up your gas tank, today it gets you a 1/4 tank of gas.  Sure none of us wants to see the inflation of prices but what someone is willing to pay doesn't make them a collectard.  This is excluding the concept of using prices to inflate value ect.

[Ninja16608]

Think hard ninja....You know who happiness is talking about.... Might be the same person who is only 11 games away from having the whole collection.....

madboom0522=Ninja16608

No we are two different people, with like minds, but very different.

collecting an entire collection doesnt make one a collectard, its the thought process behind it.  A collectard collects just to collect and for bragging rights.  The investment concept surely follows this mentality. 

A true TG16 or any retrogamer is one who grew up with the system and plays what they buy.  The concept of building the entire collection is done with the mentality that he/she wants to play all the games they couldn't buy back then.

The money one pays doesn't mean much in my book only because whats expensive today may be cheap tomorrow depending on the economic average income.  Just 15 years ago 30.00 filled up your gas tank, today it gets you a 1/4 tank of gas.  Sure none of us wants to see the inflation of prices but what someone is willing to pay doesn't make them a collectard.  This is excluding the concept of using prices to inflate value ect.

Ok so I would be just a collector as I do enjoy playing my games and the only reason I would have the full collection is to give each one a try. I never take anyone word for it that a game sucks or is bad because I may find some entertainment value where other have not.

[toymachine78]

This thread is hilarious.... all this "true gamer" talk.... I'm a true gamer...they're not true gamers... are you saying I'm not true gamer?..... lol give me a break!....

[Ninja16608]

This thread is hilarious.... all this "true gamer" talk.... I'm a true gamer...they're not true gamers... are you saying I'm not true gamer?..... lol give me a break!....

Lol no one ever said another wasn't a "true gamer" just put together the fact the some here are just here to be collectards lol

your right tho it is funny as hell.

[PunkicCyborg]

This thread is hilarious.... all this "true gamer" talk.... I'm a true gamer...they're not true gamers... are you saying I'm not true gamer?..... lol give me a break!....

you collectard!

[toymachine78]

This thread is collectarded

[Punch]

If your primary concern is buying and selling, you're a collectard.

Does that not accurately describe the Wondertwins 2.0?

Who are the Wondertwins 2.0?

An 1-player only port of Two Crude Dudes gah don't post and drink kids. I thought necro was referring to adol

[madboom0522]

Alright let's clarify, I was not talking about my self in regards to 11 games left... I do not list on my posts nor does my posting list a catch phrase or info about what I need.... I only wanted to understand what people thought was a collectard on here... Answers have been giving let's move on...

[Jibbajaba]

I'm no authority on the subject, and in fact my confusion on the very same thing led to some friction when I first started coming here. But here is my take on it:

A collectard is someone who discovers a system and decides to make a game of Pokemon out of it. Gotta catch em all! Gotta get em fast!  Knowing very little about the platform's library or actual value of its titles, they go forth and pay top dollar for "teh rarez" regardless of there being lower priced options available. It has to be megamint, as it will sit on a shelf as a display item and receive very little if any play. Sometimes they even get thrown in acrylic prisons, thereby exacerbating the real or perceived balance of supply and demand.  This practice is not limited to "teh rarez", common titles get gobbled up from too-high BINs... multiple copies, even, so that a megamint frankencommon can be assembled.

The result of this graceful ballet of indiscriminate money slinging is that suddenly a precedent has been set in "sold" ebay history for games selling more often and at higher prices than they normally would. This results in sellers raising the base asking price of all titles, and really jacking up the asking price on "teh rarez".  A cycle which feeds itself when the common collectard loses interest in a system and takes to the eBays in effort to recoup their expenses or turn a profit, and the next collectard comes along and gobbles up the too-high BINs and perpetuates the cycle.

It is especially tragic to see a large lot go to a collectard. They already have most of what is in the lot, and will sell the dupes (after scavenging the mintiest parts) for the new inflated base price they helped to create.

The non collectard generally likes mintiness as much as the next guy, but isn't as prone to pay 100x normal price for it or buy 5 more copies trying to find a manual without creases or a card without Iinsertion marks. The collection grows at the rate of "I wanna play that one and this one" and games are added as good deals become available. They are played and cherished.

Sweet Jesus.  There should be a Wikipedia entry for "Collectard", and this post should be the body, in its entirety.

Also, YouTube "finds" videos f*cking SUCK!  30 minutes to show off a small pile of shit games from Goodwill.