I still remember scratching up my Age of Empires II CD when I was a kid, I cried like a baby for a couple of days until my parents bought a new one. I've been pretty careful with my discs over the years though, I'm glad that nowadays you don't have to worry about that aspect.
Yeah you know the logic as a kid was crappy. Disc not working? Blow on it and wipe it with a cloth, see what happens. Oh, you're scatching it more? Wipe it again and maybe the game would work. Man, that was the fastest way to ruin your disc. Don't matter how many smudges it has, as long as you don't wipe it up it will still work, but you just couldn't help yourself.
Don't shops just undervalue games where you can barely get $5 for a large number of games? I think that would be a rip-off for me and I'd rather keep my games instead of having cheap change exchanged for them. There will also come a time where you will miss those games and want to play again, so it's a lot better to keep the physical copies on storage since you'll probably play it again.
There are games I just don't miss/generally play enough to keep around, especially because I'm pretty busy nowadays with other things. By that point, even chump change holds more value than the game itself; a digital game simply can't be returned *at all* in most instances.
Yeah, I used to wipe disks everytime hoping that they would work again. Sadly, little me didn't know better and I didn't have enough brain cells to Google out a solution. Thank God games got cheap fast around that time.
PS2 games were a pain since you just couldn't install it and forget about the disc. The disc had to work every single time for you to play something. That's kinda why I preferred PC games over console. For PC, just install it once and it will work flawlessly until you either uninstall or you reformat the PC entirely. For the PS2, you gotta take care of the discs a lot more since you use them regularly. The frequent removal from the case or booklet would end up scratching or damaging the disc, and further use even without scratches will still make the disc unplayable eventually.
That sucks. Oh well, at least you don't have to worry about losing games if they're all in one digital location. Still, I always appreciate a good collection of books and physical copies of games. It's a shame you had to get rid of them. Can I ask why you were on the move a lot? And did you at least save your favorites so you can start up another collection someday when your position is a more stable one, location-wise?
Oh man, I'm sorry. I hope you get yourself in a situation where you can just stay in one place. Being on the move a lot sounds romantic and all that, but eventually you'll have to find someplace stable to settle. I'm sure when that time comes you'll have a badass new set of stuff to collect. For me I've always wanted to collect books as well, but I never find myself having enough space, so at the most, my collection currently is my Steam library, which isn't much since it has 27 games. Oh well. It's a start. Anyway, good luck on the path!
Yeah I feel like most collectors start out their set with passion or as a hobby, but as soon as the snowball gets bigger it's more of bragging rights and being a completionist, and the initial sentiment to the items get lost in favor of having a complete set. And yeah, space is definitely an issue. I plan on having a large place someday so I can store my stuff. I'm pretty sentimental about things I own, things I've bought with my own money, so I never have the heart to throw them away. In turn they are just in my closet never to see the light of day. I'd like to put them on a nice shelf or something one of these days.
Pretty much. Permanent games that only you can play? Yes please! No more having to share games when you don't want to, no more trying to trade games for a small percentage of their overall price for a loss. It's a lot more convenient since you can simply sign in to an account and download games you already own on any PC. It's that simple, and that's why I don't look anywhere else for games. No more physical copies for me.
