Who else is pissed off that adventure games are becoming collectible?
I'll just leave it open to you guys for now. For a good example look at the price of Grim Fandago or Gabriel Knight, Quest for Glory, etc etc.
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I also own them all.... I was in my teens during the 90s and was obsessed with adventure games...
I've got a copy of Grim Fandango signed by Tim Schafer, I wonder what that would be worth? (No joke - my brother and I started a friendship with a LucasArts employee in the late 90s via AOL - also got a copy of Star Wars Episode 1 and Episode 1 Racer signed by the designers).
Not all that rare, I see plenty of copies out there, it's extremely rare that their decently priced.
The only really expensive ones are perhaps the FM Towns ones.
For games that are 11-12- 20 years old I feel their over priced, very much so, a lot of them...
I guess we're arguing if the price of games should go down naturally over time, over if it's remained high because the value of the games isn't any less than before and still worth the price of a game.
I totaly agree, I guess because they're rare it gives them a right to make us spend more of our money, I hope lucas arts gets the idea next year to release a 20 year collection of the Monkey Island games, 89-90 bucks is ridiculous for a game.
Supply and Demand... Its the first thing you learn...
This is only a small part of it.
When supplies are low and the demand is high.... so are the prices.
Seeing as how most of these games are no longer being made, yet there is still a slight demand for it, people who are supplying it can ask what ever price they want for them..... because its not like you can just go to Wal-Mart and buy it new...
I can find them very easily on line though, anywhere on line. The web is a big place, there's still lots of copies out there, a lot of those folks want too much if you ask me. The games really aren't that rare, but I wouldn't argue your logic behind it. I still say that lots of people aren't being fair and that gives me a reason to be pissed off.
That is very true, but you don't see most twenty year old items at a steep price like that. For example a SNES, when it was brand new was a 100 dollars, you can go and pick up most SNES's at a used game shop for about 20-35 dollars, and if you wanted to pick up a game for them that would cost about 50 dollars, and now you can pick them up for about 15 a pop some cartridges are rare, and you may pay a little more because of Supply and Demand, as it's a rare item. But you won't pay more than 100 bucks for it..like FF3 or Super Mario RPG are around 50 dollars, because they are in fact rare. But a PC game, shouldn't be as high as 90 dollars, for a game that is less than 20 years old.
You can find a lot of Sierra games for much less than that, for instance.
EDIT: The reason they are expensive is due to reluctance to sell them.
Anyone want to make a good buck hehe ^^^ Good luck. There's one on there all 3 games going for 99 cents.
eBay is the better option in almost all cases.
Anyway, I think companies should do what Lucasarts is doing now... re-release their old games.
Either that or release them as freeware... like Revolution has done with a couple of their games.
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Roughly the same price on both sites (with a few exceptions).
I get much better deals on eBay on the stuff I purchase, anyway.
I was more referring to the Prices which PDS usually sells for, opposed to other games. With PDS having had a fairly constant average sale price for years. Where as with rare and little known about games, such as the FMtowns versions of many adventure games, you can (if you are very lucky) find a good deal on Ebay.
The actual value of something is not what it is worth, with plenty of case of items being valued at ridiculous prices, which people just wouldn't pay for them (see when some people tried to sell the original Charizard Pokemon card for £120, which being statistically it's value, people were unwilling to pay that price).
Pretty much what I am saying is that shopping around for the best offer is the best decision to find old games (if they aren't on GOG, steam or the like).