I think for me it’s retro games, specifically. I used to have been in the used video games market for 5 years from 2008 to 2012. My goal was to construct a personal video game collection, physical copies of games I personally enjoyed growing up.

I was registered on a game trading site which served as the base of my business, I’ve made rounds of thrift store hopping and any used games market I could find locally. I’ve struck amazingly good deals and I might’ve had luck on my side a few times (for example, a guy on that game trading site gave me a free copy of Super Metroid that I got to choose for a minor mistake he felt he needed to honor.)

And I felt like I was incredibly close to completing my personal collection until 2012, I ran into some dumb drama with my sister and ex girlfriend back then. They racked up the cable bill in my name that I was trying to cancel and they wouldn’t let me cancel it until I turned in all equipment. And I was jobless at the time too, having lost my job. So I needed to sell some things and sure enough, had to sacrifice my entire collection at the time that I spent 5 long years building.

I never recovered since and this was during the golden period where it was still fairly fun to collect and everybody wasn’t pretending to be a pawn shop.

I would try continuing what collection of games I’ve tried to build, through Steam but it wasn’t the same. Nowadays, the used video games market has turned into just a platform full of resellers, pawn brokers and stingy greedy collectors.

I find it very cheapening that people treat games like they’re just tools of trade. They mean nothing and they’re treated like nothing except to make a quick buck, however possible.

It’s only worsened thanks to Goodwill and similar thrift stores, getting in on it where everyone pays too much attention as to what the prices go for on EBay and VGPC.

And we have WATA involved that hasn’t made things better. Thanks for shitting on an honest hobby, assholes.

  • MagicShel@programming.dev
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    3 months ago

    I enjoy video games, but it’s maybe two or three games a year I really enjoy and play the hell out of. Days Gone and BG3 are the only ones I’ve enjoyed since Jedi: Survivor. I’ve played the hell out of DG because when I didn’t have anything else to do I’d just replay it again. I thought the writing and acting was really good and it’s almost like rewatching a favorite movie.

    I did finally pick up GTA5 (I often buy older games that were well received but I didn’t have interest in paying full price when they came out) and it’s good, but it hasn’t gripped me and I’ve just kinda stopped playing. Currently I just spend that time scrolling my phone. I don’t think there are any games on my radar I’m interested in buying in the future. But that’s fine I don’t want to anticipate a game and be disappointed.

    There’s some new Star Wars game coming out and I fucking love Star Wars, but they said the word DLC and I’m already not interested. If a game requires PS+, I already know I won’t like it—a lesson leaned from Diablo 4, which I really wanted to love but really don’t.

    I also only have Linux. My last windows system got left out in the rain on my deck and that was that. But that’s okay because I love to tinker and play with stuff and Linux is great for personal dev projects.