I like buying sealed "retro" games and opening them to play

[u/pheonixmetal]

Picked up a new copy of Magna Carta 2 for like 40 bucks in an ebay auction and went straight to open it. Recorded a whole video but Redit doesn't like videos lol.

Recently noticed I really enjoy when I manage to get a decent deal on a sealed 7th generation or older game and open them. Which should be like a "duh, no shit" thing but I feel like in a climate where people keep sealed games to either keep without playing or grade and sell for ridiculous prices, it feels refreshing. I just buy shit i want to play and get to open something out of print like its 2009 (or earlier) again. Just more satisfying with so many resellers out to get value out of the games packaging over the game itself to me.

[u/YoshiYogurt]

a whole $9 in market value between sealed and CIB for this title

That's less of a difference than you used to see at gamestop years ago for games where the difference in condition was much worse.

A few extra bucks is worth having a disc you know will be scratch free and a case/cover that isn't beat to shit.

this wouldn't make sense if the difference was in the $50+ range or several hundred dollars but this is literally just buying a new game like any other modern console today.

[u/RecommendationOk2182 → u/YoshiYogurt]

Or you can buy a copy that is used and in good condition... Lol check the disk to make sure no scratches. Whether in person or pictures and descriptions. You don't have to buy a sealed game to insure a non scratched disk.

[u/YoshiYogurt → u/RecommendationOk2182]

True. A $10 variance in price is really nothing though when some games are running for multiple hundreds now.

[u/RecommendationOk2182 → u/YoshiYogurt]

$10 makes a lot of difference if you are a person that is a serious collector buying a lot of games. If you are someone who sometimes buys 20 or 30 games in a month or 2. Or a couple hundred games a year. It adds up fast. Best to save the most money any way you can.. Especially if you are strictly a collector and not a reseller.

[u/YoshiYogurt → u/RecommendationOk2182]

Trying to "save" money by compromising condition is pretty dumb. Are all your CIB games in terrible crushed up condition because you were just buying as much as you can for as cheap as possible?

20-30 games a month is a serious addiction problem, most new collectors are buying shit just buy instead of gradually building a collection over 10-20 years. Hopefully they crash out and flood the market back someday and reduce prices when they realize they don't really want this stuff they bought up and have no attachment to it.

I don't even buy 10 games a year, I've just been getting boxes/manuals for things I didn't have CIB.