Some cards like baseball cards are a boomer hobby, and boomers are dying out/living off social security so they can't afford that sort of shit. Shit like Magic, Pokemon, and Yugioh appeal to nostalgiafags around 30 years old i.e. people who are finally getting the disposable income they always wanted and worse, today's 30 year olds are less likely to be married or own a house so they are even more likely to throw away money on children's card games (or retro vidya).
Jesus fucking christ. So now collectables are so out of reach that even investors have to go all in? I remember doing this shit in elementary school with Pokemon cards (a few friends put in a few bucks each and we divide and trade the cards) but fucking adults are doing this. May Allah forgive them.
I knew that there were some adults doing this, I always thought it was just weirdos and people trying to buy their kids their old childhoods.
I can back that up to a point - maybe $30, tops. It's fun to read the manual and put in the disc with the nice artwork. But then you've got games like Skies of Arcadia going for $135, and even @Vyse Inglebard himself would probably tell you to just burn some CDs, because that is some serious skrilla for a game older than some of the posters here.
Who the fuck is ever going to buy this?
Yeah, when it gets to the point that an over 20 year old game costs that much, either emulate it or just burn it onto some CDs and play it on your Dreamcast that way.
MLP was hit with this first due to bronies.
Nah, it was happening WAY before My Little Pony. Pokémon, just to name one example.
I meant specifically yard sales. As in, once people heard "MLP is popular", crap like "opening ebay right in front of you and charging top price you see of vaguely similar pony" became a thing.
I think it started with comics in the 90s.
You really think it's that modern? Dude, this shit's been going on a long time.
there's an actual reason for this though. the cheaper carts simply don't have the hardware required to play a lot of games that used extra chips (super fx, sa-1, etc). the sd2snes/fxpak pro uses a FPGA which allows for hardware emulation of those chips.
I agree, just not having to pay an extra 8-11% depending on your state definitely helps when they are bumping up prices.
Jesus Christ this is just an adult daycare. Also who the fuck thinks bringing hair tools for your workers is a good idea? Those vain assholes are going to be spending hours on their hair! Although most of them weren't hired to do any actual work it's still weird and really unprofessional.
This is the mid-life crisis in one of its cringiest forms.
Loungefly is Funkos line of bags. Because God forbid this world needs more textile waste on top of plastic waste.
