> Startyde wrote:I buy multiple copies at times because I'm like total ADD and honestly forget I bought them years prior.
I do try to avoid this, but I must admit that I've done it once or twice :-)
Mistakes aside, though, I never buy multiples. Not because I wouldn't, but there are plenty enough games that I want, that I don't have the money to be buying duplicates of others. If I ever reach the point where my collection is satisfied, and the cost of new releases totals less than my available income at that time, then I'd be more likely to spend the extra on something else (such as more games to open and play, or a bigger TV, etc).
Oh, as long as I'm being honest, sometimes I buy duplicates because I'm not satisfied that the copy that I already have is perfect enough. Or, I'm not sure about some aspect of the copy that I have and decide that I need to see for myself a comparison against another copy. I have a few duplicates this way, but they're rare, and in principle can be sold off at any time (they're usually not, but that's because eBay sucks for sellers and PayPal sucks more for everyone else and there is no real alternative, and Australia is so very, very far away from everywhere else).
> wheelaa wrote:IMO a far sadder situation is when people buy sealed games they've never even played! Where's the logic in that? Where's the affinity to the games in that? Nowhere and nowhere. Utterly pointless. Why have 30 games for a system you've never touched.
How about this scenario:
I like Super Mario games. I've played so many, I'm confident that there's enough good in them overall to be worth adding to my collection. Now, I don't own a Philips CDi. I probably never will; they're expensive to import just so that I can play a couple of games. And those couple of games: well, no-one seems to think that they're all that good anyway. But a collection of Mario games will total well over 500 games - why should I leave that collection incomplete (by not buying Mario Hotel for the CDi) just because I'll never play that particular crappy game? I might as well buy that game for the sake of the collection, and who knows? I might care enough to import a machine to play (an unsealed copy) on one day. And I might even like it, long after the last remaining copies from eBay have dried up.
That's just one scenario. I collect by franchise, while most people collect by other criteria (games I've played and liked, system, rare, valuable, etc). I choose my franchises by what games I like, but that doesn't mean I have to play every game within that franchise. Meh, just demonstrating that an inscrutable choice doesn't have to be an illogical one.
Ultimately, to say that wanting more than one is bad/silly/evil/whatever is as pointless as a non-sealed-game-collector saying that having one copy Factory Sealed is bad/silly/evil/whatever. They simply don't understand what you understand, that you love to collect what you collect, and have your own standards for judging your own behavior and will not allow yourself to be judged by anyone else's opinion so long as you do no harm. I think that we can mostly agree with that; the question then becomes Dark Sol's original (but, tragically, poorly phrased) question: what is your reason or doing so (if you do)? That's the topic.
