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LoR_RalphRoberts t1_is67xcv wrote

Reply to comment by Lost_Switch65 in Two unreleased and 'never digitized' NES games are up for auction on eBay by thebelsnickle1991

It's a pride/narcisissim thing. Having unique things (to their minds) makes you inherently better than those who do not have it. They genuinely just could not give less of a shit about anything else other than ego stroking themselves.

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Caelinus t1_is6r7fu wrote

A lot of the buyers in any collectable market are just people who think scarcity and value are the same thing. They tend to buy scarce stuff to hopefully have it accrue value over time.

The problem in this case is that two unreleased games are only scarce specifically, not generally. It would be one thing if one of these was a 90% finished prototype of a Metroid sequel that never existed, but there are a lot of unreleased games out there that were never released because people do not want them.

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Lost_Switch65 t1_is68m82 wrote

yup basically

it’s just funny and sad seeing the cycle repeat itself

so how long till the house fire

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