Or refuse to buy

  • otp@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Video games. Retro video games. All of it.

    Sure, we have Steam sales and those are still cheap. But physical games? Gone bonkers since covid.

    This is the first time in the history of the world that current Gen consoles have gone UP in price. Games hardly go down in price anymore.

    Retro games used to be cheap. Now everyone and their mother knows they’re not just old children’s toys, and think everything is a collectible. And these days, they might not even be wrong! Not to mention thrift stores and sometimes even garage salers are trying to charge eBay prices for everything they have.

    I’m just holding onto digital games and Steam sales and such…and, well, piracy of course. (But storage is expensive too…)

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      19 hours ago

      Man, everything is a collectable now. I swear I can big some random cheap old tech and in a few years it will be double the price

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      I was going to buy an old game that was not very good for nostalgia purposes as a gift. Since COVID it has tripled in price.

      It was already not good, and at $150 I’d rather gift an Everdrive with an 8gb card full of the rom than spend that much on a shelf piece.

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          11 hours ago

          Edutainment mixed with mid-platforming… Most likely expensive because it didn’t have a wide release. Not “bad” but also not a hidden gem or “actually good despite” anything.