Mint in Box?

[Mqarkcambie]

Mint in box?

I don't understand the desire of people who insist in buying games or machines that are "Mint in box" still sealed in the original cellophane.

Surely the point of having a great collectable game or machine should be the pleasure that can be derived from playing the game? If you leave the game in it's box and don't even play it then you are a moron. You are only disrespecting all the creativity of the Artists, Musicians and Game Designers, and denying recognition for the ingenuity of the Programmers.

After all you don't buy a book without reading it's contents do you?

To buy a mint game and admire of for it's pristine condition and the cover art alone is just plain crazy. How do things gain the status of greatness if they are never experienced? If you have bought the item for the sake of having a "Perfect" mint copy, then it is akin to being a snob.

If you don't run a games museum, why have sealed copies?

Now I don't have any problem with someone wanting to buy something in good condition if they are going to use it and take due care and attention to keep it pristine. It isn't difficult.

Buying, for example, a Dracula X CD sealed to keep on the shelf means that if you want to play the game you either have to by a rattier copy of the game (which is daft) or you burn a copy to a CDR (which has dubious legality).

Finally the fact that sealed copies command prices that are either high or extortionate in most cases beggars belief. If we refuse to buy them they don't sell?

Mark.

[VR46]

Each to their own I guess mate, just look at all the activity on the Limited Edition Adidas trainers on ebay recently, they will never be worn but kept sealed in some ones collection or bought to sell on for a profit in two years time.

Enjoy your own games and let others get on with whatever keeps them happy

[babs]

There's nothing to stop people buying a normal copy of a game to play, and a rare prsitine one as a collectors item / investment. Most people who buy a game in that condition will already have played it to death and already own it.

[Mqarkcambie]

Each to their own I guess mate, just look at all the activity on the Limited Edition Adidas trainers on ebay recently, they will never be worn but kept sealed in some ones collection or bought to sell on for a profit in two years time.

Enjoy your own games and let others get on with whatever keeps them happy

Don't get me wrong, If people actually play the games - then great. I am convinced that some people buy mint games just for the sake of collecting and showing off, and then find that they have to get a hookie copy just to see what all the fuss was about.

And also if people have played the games to death, why get a mint copy? Maybe it's just me...

I love games and machines and I look to find the ones in the best condition I can find. But I play them and use them. I don't subscribe to just one machine I look to find the best games for any machine.

Gaming shouldn't be about investments. That takes the spirit out of gaming.

Thank god there isn't a Simon Cowell figure in gaming at the moment pumping out crud for money.

Mark.

[SharkSkin-Man]

Its no different than comic book or Toy collectors.

[babs]

Thank god there isn't a Simon Cowell figure in gaming at the moment pumping out crud for money.

https://www.ea.com

[anephric]

Don't get me wrong, If people actually play the games - then great. I am convinced that some people buy mint games just for the sake of collecting and showing off, and then find that they have to get a hookie copy just to see what all the fuss was about.

Of course they do. As someone posted above, there's a collector's market for eveything. Some ppl will buy games and never play them. I can see where you're coming from and why you find it perverse (because, by their very nature, games are meant to be played) but, hey, people will fetishise anything.

Most games collectors are people that love playing games and just got caught up in some rarified neurosis.

[Yoshimoto]

Having something 'mint in box' doesn't mean you won't play it. Why would it?

What's wrong with taking care of something properly? Surely that shows a lot more respect for everything involved than someone who leaves discs lying around, bends the pages of the manual back or otherwise abuses their games.

I too wouldn't buy a sealed game to leave on shelf unopened, but that's a completely different thing to someone who keeps everything mint. Mint doesn't mean unopened.

Different strokes for different folks i suppose but i personally would never buy anything in less than Nr Mint.

[gossi the dog]

I'm not sure if your referring to prisitine condition games or games that are still sealed. Anyhow I like to buy my games in pristine condition - I'd rather have something in great condition than soomething that's nearly kanckered. I play them, but unlike most people I know how to keep games in such condition. As for keeping games sealed it is somewhat pointless.

[Geoff D]

Going slightly off topic, one of my current pet peeves on Ebay is people who describe their wares as 'mint' then when you click, it's cart only...

Drives I crackers!

[gossi the dog]

It annoys me more to buy a CD based game described as mint only to find it scratched to ****.

[C']

I understand where the original poster is coming from with this, but at the same time, these people who horde old games and keep them sealed are a godsend to me when they decide to sell them on in the future. When I'm buying retro games I will gladly pay more (many times more in some cases) safe in the knowledge that the item I receive will be in pristine condition when it arrives.

When I first started getting Saturn games last year I got 2 from Ebay which were described as Mint, good as new etc. Even the photos seemed to back this up. However when they arrived this proved to be fair from the case and one game was so scratched to **** it wouldn't load and the other fell far short of very good condition, let alone mint.

If it means people have to horde games, still sealed, for years to come so I can eventually get a hold of a sealed copy years down the line, so be it.

[butchcvc]

Gaming shouldn't be about investments. That takes the spirit out of gaming.

bloody hippy!

[gIzzE]

What a strange way to start a post?

You could say the same for anything that does not interest you?

I don't understand why people are into Train spotting, stamp collecting, bird watching, scat films, etc. etc.
And I am sure I do loads of things that people don't understand, but we are all different, and if someone gets some joy from collecting an item or doing an activity then good on 'em.

[Kubrick]

LOL what a crazy argument to present.

If you wanted to buy a used car, would you buy one in poor condition just because it works, or try and find one that looks/runs as new?

I don't see how applying the same ethos to videogame buying should be something to criticise.