'Rare' games are a myth created by resellers
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- Markets never change - they're controlled by crooks and swindlers and are not there to benefit the likes of me and you.
The retro gaming market is no different and you are being lied to by resellers (and that includes 2nd hand gaming companies like CeX).
Learn how to beat the system by not falling for their shenanigans.
UPDATE: CeX have informed me that their vouchers last 1000 years but their warranty is only 2 years.
Whoops.
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I'm quite surprised by the 360 price increases, I didn't anticipate we'd see £100 games so soon. I've got the majority of the expensive games and paid nothing like their current value - and that wasn't that long ago. I got Fatal Inertia from CEX for a fiver, pretty sure it was this year or the back end of 2023.
@@EdGreenall yep - I got my copy from Poland for roughly the same price, then came back to the UK at the end of the week to see it going for £25+
Hey Donald, great video dude. A great topic of discussion cause I can definitely say I have fallen into the "FOMO" trap in the past, rushing to an offer/deal for a product thinking it's the best I'm going to get when in reality (as I've learnt overtime) there's always a better deal out there. People always need to check alternative distribution sites because there is always someone willing to give the same product away, perhaps in the same condition but for a way better price. You've earnt a follower in me! Keep up the great work 😎
@RGedits54 thank you matey! I should pre-warn you that the vast majority of my videos are me just buying bad games and getting 'facts' wrong though, such as the "thousand year warranty" in this video 🤦♂️
The warranty is 24 months… you are thinking of the CeX in store voucher expiration date. Still 2 years isn’t bad
@euanlatchie1453 yeah - I've pinned that as the top comment matey 😂
100%
It’s not even with games anymore, more items are now being raised in price at my local thrifts. Shoes, toys, and clothes are now over priced. Can’t even go to the thrift to get a cheap toy for kids anymore. I started making videos cause I couldn’t beat them. Love this video, much respect.
@@E-Z_Gamerz thank you! Check out my charity shop one and the insane 'volunteers' in the comments section...
Nintendo on 3d allstars was a joke , just ports on a cart
@@guybran6605 a lot of re-releases in general are a joke. I remember getting a set of GTA games (1, 2, 3, Vice City, San Andreas, 4) for about £7 on Steam a few weeks before they re-released that terrible HD collection for £40.
They removed the old, working physical releases from the store and replaced them with overpriced, broken crap.
At least here in Seattle where I live,
My local game stores don’t do the shady change price model at checkout. I did a trade in of some GBA games I had to get some 360 games and got Bullet Witch CIB with poster in excellent shape and PriceCharting had it at 120.00’at time of purchase but it was priced at 36.00. I also got Velvet Assassin CIB for 16.00 and was worth 50.00. They honored their price and sold it and told me I got a good deal.
These stores still make money on their original pricing and if you get someone trying to stiff you at checkout because too lazy to keep up with price values, then just walk
@Patrick-tw7nr it's madness over here.
I've always wanted to visit Seattle due to the grunge scene from the 90's and also the NBA days of Gary Payton etc - I hope you guys get another NBA team soon 😀
@@donaldmackerel come on over! I’ll be in the UK in August and can’t wait to come back as I love London and pretty much all of UK lol
@Patrick-tw7nr I'm petrified of flying 😂😂😂
My missus has gotten me to Poland twice, and each time I needed sedating!
You don´t even need that high end of a PC for the Emulation route. I played a couple of PS3 games as perfectly fine as they can be emulated as of now on a PC that would have been high end maybe 9 years ago. Sure, some games will need a much beefier PC for emulation, but I played stuff like Afrika, that stupidly expensive 50 Cent Shooter and the Gran Turismo HD Demo thing without noteworthy problems.
That being said, what also helps is being fine with less desirable editions of a game, often these Greatest Hits, Platinum, Essentials, Players Choice and whatever they might be called versions, if available for a title, are the cheaper option because most people want the original variant.
@@Soonjai It makes me scratch my head when places don't differentiate the prices on things like this, though. Even worse is when it has a reprinted cover or is missing the manual - you know that in 5 years, they'll be charging a premium for the original CIB states.
Monkey Island Special Etd - Was £12 Dec 2023 early Jan/Feb 2024 now its like £38 in July 2024 ... i am simply not paying that price.
@SecretOfMonkeyIsland784 it's ridiculous. That's the best approach though - wait for the price to come down and it it doesn't, emulate it.
@@donaldmackerel Luckily its available on Steam for PC digitally for around £16 or cheaper when on sale. However its the old physical vs digital thing so naturally i want the physical copy being a physical game collector :( . Hoping prices drop a little after the store has closed and hype / demand drops.
@@SecretOfMonkeyIsland784 it's £2.19 digitally for the next 3 days!
www.fanatical.com/en/game/monkey-island-special-edition-bundle?cc=GB&GB_feed
@@donaldmackerel Laughable, try getting it for the IBM PC, its about £450
@@Electrotat that is absolutely insane.
the developer of senko no ronde is g.rev, ubisoft was just a publisher
little bonus: the game is region free and the japanese version's DLC is compatible with it
@VanArtic thank you matey! Always good to learn stuff :)
CEX used to be a good place to buy 2nd-hand games 20, 25 years ago. They sold Japanese and American games at decent prices. I used to buy Dreamcast imports from there. Now CEX are Super Greedy with their pricing. It"s Scandalous. They are artificially inflating the 2nd-hand prices in Europe. A year ago Wartech on Xbox360 was always 10 pounds on Ebay. How can CEX charge 40 quid? A Blatant Robbery!!!
@avflashback8913 the sad thing is, people are still paying these prices
Ur 360 collection is awesome bro 👍
@@GaryAdams-ut8xe thank you!
I think I paid $5 for a sealed copy of wartech when it was new.
@@itachi1145 absolute bargain!
Microsoft already said that there would be one more sale for the XBOX 360 store, on the 16th I think.
@goatbone yeah - fingers crossed that a few of the games on my list get 90% off reductions or they can swivel. That last 'sale' a few weeks ago was pointless.
Great collection
Thank you matey!
Ooorite mate oooorite mate avva bloody biscuit 🍪!
@MrValentine_007 I'm confused but the FF7 reference in your name means you get a like anyway 😂
@@donaldmackerel i payed 120 pounds on ebay for spiderman web of shadows for xbox 360 last week :(((((((((((((((
@@MrValentine_007 Jesus! The prices are just getting insane now.
thank you for the information very helpful
@user-hk3es9tq8d no worries matey! Thank you for watching :)
I do think cex know the only people buying these 'rare games' are collectors. A lot of collectors use viucer to buy expensive ganes so they bump the price up. Problem then is everyone else thinks thats the correct price and copies, but you cant use vouchers to buy from anywhere else. So £40 in cex could cost you £20 in reality.
@j1m909 the most alarming bit is the quality of the 'rare' games they try to shift at top whack, then get snooty when you point out how crap said quality is and ask for a refund.
@@donaldmackerel I saw a channel buy a horse training game in sure it was about £50 maybe more.... Why it's shit, looks shit on the shelf and you will never play it. Because it's 'rare' it's just silly now
@@j1m909 yep - I think it's called something like 'My Horse & Me' and costs about 50p on the Wii. Terrible game.
yep i agree plus other bigger youtubers make the prices up cause there subs like to copy ie essentials ps3 , xbox 360 classics cause ppl cant think for them selves which to me is sad i myself collect what i want for myself nobody influnces me lol and i always make sure never to pay over the odds , enjoyed the video mate cheers
@@Ps3RetroTv indeed - there's certain youtubers that seem to try to influence the market... who also get sent free stuff from resellers... hmm...
@@donaldmackerel yeah m8 we all no who they are aswell and also get sent stuff viewers which are saps own fault for sending and they give it away so ungrateful i would never get any viewver to send me anything unless it was like a trade/swap for something :)
@Ps3RetroTv I've been given stuff by mates but nothing valuable, mainly grief 😂
Couldn't agree more, they buy a game that has a few left in stock then do a video to say look at the rare game only a few left. Then when their sheep buy it they do another video and say told you it was rare didn't I. To be honest all the RUclips channels like that and the resellers, I think everyone is a reseller now has ruined it for me the last two years 😢
@j1m909 it's silly though, as the obvious answer is to just wait and let them panic. The games would soon appear back in circulation.
Absolutely spot mate, but sometimes the FOMO can be a Mother...... 😀
@@ChoppingMall80s STEP AWAY FROM THE CREDIT CARD
@@donaldmackerel ruclips.net/video/Nv-3E_AQnlQ/видео.html
Quality video mate.
FOMO is real. I usually don't mind paying around 20ish for something, but it usually depends what it actually is. Like for example the Dead Space remake was on sale at Argos, £22.99, I snapped that up, since the price of that game has been quite steady since it released. Other than that though, I don't mind paying a couple of quid in CEX, other times I've payed about a 10er for some PS4 stuff, but like you said mate, no way am I paying £80-£90, or even £100+ for SNES cardboard and all that type of stuff.
I don't even own a SNES and I doubt I ever will, I'm not exactly leaping over fences to have one, plus emulation is also a thing. I'm not a massive lover of pirating or illegally obtaining games, but sometimes I don't really care.
Love the video anyways, don't give into FOMO, that's the slogan!
Quick edit: I passed someone's channel the other day, they had a comment saying why don't you save cash instead of doing the usual weekly spend on games, the guy said it is impossible for him to do it in the reply. People are moving like addicts nowadays. Disgusts me, because I know how hard it is to stop and I don't always follow my own moral compass, but I do despise the collecting behaviour funnily enough lol.
@DD93AFC 100% I'm no criminal, but I'll be buggered if I'm going to pay ludicrously high prices for ancient games just because some chin-stroker wants to inflate their value. The amount of videos on here that seem to solely exist just to do this is unreal.
On a side note, I know it's the same as pirating but somehow it is a little more legal in my eyes - I bought a Retroboss and it's got loooooads of retro games on from the Atari 2600 all the way up to the Wii U!
@@donaldmackerel The collection can only expand so much anyways 😄.
I think the Retroboss you bought isn't a bad idea. At some point, and I always tell myself this, I'll probably be getting rid of alot of the backlog once I've played stuff, but the fun thing is, I hardly play alot of it at all 😂.
Another reason above why I won't spend extortionate amounts. Back in the days I was okay with day 1 £40 prices, and one of my mates says the same thing to me whenever we talk about it, but now it's become £70 a generation later. Why pay that when in a years time, it could potentially be 50% off that? Make it make sense 😂.
Anyways Donald, love the vids mate. Can't wait for the next one 👍🏻, always love a bit of 360 shopping.
@DD93AFC cheers matey! Yeah, spend £60-70 for a day one release, wait 3 months for the game-breaking bugs to get sorted, wait another 3 months for the bugs caused by the bug fixes to get sorted etc, etc... before you know it, 9 months have gone by and the game is on sale for £6.
Spot on
@Daisy-wy5mn cheers matey! Thanks for watching 😀
Wartech is now £50! as of July 12 2024!
@Soundwave1of9 absolutely insane! I bet someone will buy it, too.
Excellent video mate, i posted something similar a few weeks back, and said the same, its hype driving up the value at the moment. Itll dip back down eventually though, hopefully!
@pixelpaul_pxp cheers matey! I'll check your video out.
I really hope it does dip again soon but people seem to follow trends, which is worrying.
it wont, these prices just keep going up, I add to my collection all the time, still have all mine from back in the day which I paid full price for, I have noticed the prices going up fast lately.
@donaldmackerel I agree, we do seem to have shifted from getting games that interest you or you want to play, to buying stuff which looks great on a video or an insta post or on a shelf, which I dont know, possibly even someone like me has fueled a bit on Instagram say, not intentionally of course. Collecting games has just boomed so much recently though, I guess a spike was almost inevitable, whether we've hit the top of that spike or if it will continue to grow will be interesting to see, I seriously hope it falls though, I miss finding gaming curiosities at car boots and charity shops lol..
@@pixelpaul_pxp I just think that people rely on other people's opinions too much, especially sources that stand to gain from gullibility.
It just makes emulation more attractive to me.
Have to say, I think is my favourite video I've seen all year! Totally talking my wave length with what you've said here!
Don’t need to buy games I can get super cheaper digital on the Xbox one store the digital is more rare then the physical games once the digital is no longer for purchase that’s it it’s gone forever
@bryancook6345 I love digital games too, although you can't actually get loads of the 360 games digitally.
The one thing I would say is that digital games are ALWAYS *available*... although not always legally 😂
@@donaldmackerel I know you can hack the consoles but if you get caught playing games you didn’t pay for Sony Microsoft Nintendo will band your account you will lose everything you paid for imagine losing all your achievements you earned since 2005 not worth it if you want to hack anything hack your NES classic something your not being watched on no achievements no online
I am all for having physical copies but i am also not willing to spend the stupid amount of money that people want for them so...........i modded a 360 and have every known title made.
@@Michael-fe9ef I've got a spare, modded 360 that I back my games up to due to disc rot fears
Actually on the PS3 and PS4 if your CMis battery died you could not play or access your digital games on thr PS3 ans PS4. You couldn't even play your Physical games on your PS4.
Granted Sony did make a patch once word got out of this issue. So it was quickly addressed. So yes it is pisdible to lose access to your digital games. Especially if they games are a service. Once they shut the servers done. Oh well.
@Damackism you can just get another console though and re-download the games from your PSN account.
If it's games as a service then owning physical media changes nothing - the discs just become plastic slabs once they shut the servers down.
@@donaldmackerel You forget your psn password you are screwed lol. So yeah nothing is guaranteed with strictly digital games. Not until we have a secondary market of ownership for digital content. Where consumers can sell and trade digital content they purchased and used.
mobile phones is the problem. Any idiot can google a game price, hence the charity shop prices
@garethcoleman1 true, but those prices are all imaginary and generated by people that drive prices up.
The only way to combat the price hikes is to not buy them.
@@donaldmackerel i didn't and I don't. It was Duke Nuken Advance on the GameBoy Advance SP. and they wanted12 quid for it in a charity shop. I walked away. It was 10 years ago now. It might have been a bargin in todays prices. it's on evercade anyway
Re sellers are the problem. They shout and dance about it and charity shops and thought hang on a minute this is taking the piss. Every man and his dog is a re seller now and it's ruined it for people that actually shop in charity shops because it's what they can afford, or like my little lad he used to get cheap toys. Now it's full of middle-aged men and women scanning everything from toys to books.
@j1m909 I did a video on this and the charity shop overlords descended on me, saying I hated kids with cancer.
That's a lot of shovelware.
@@SPTX. shouldn't you be hiding under a bridge and eating goats?
@@donaldmackerel the fuck does that even mean
@@SPTX. it means someone must've hurt you as a child.
@@donaldmackerel He's right though. There's like 10 NBA games on that shelf.
@@Rezovision and I love basketball. What's your point?
Yep I just rebought a Xbox 360 thank god I saved the games I bought yrs ago on physical games
@mufc10529 I managed to buy the bulk of mine during "the period of unspecified illness in 2020 that RUclips dishes out bans for mentioning" and it's mad how much a few people think their games are worth now.
Saw 1 and 2 are not awful games, I dont know where you got that from, I bought these new back in the day and they're good games.
Saw 2 got 4.5/10 from IGN, 47% from Metacritic and is roundly panned by the vast majority of people.
I'll give it a go.
Your opinion I guess. Reality and overall opinions though do say it's trash
They're not "Crooks and swindlers" at all, its called making a living!
Also if someone wants to sell anything they can put whatever price they like on the item they are selling as it's their property.
@@Electrotat prostitutes are just making a living, too
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@nerevar8823 I didn't want to say anything 😂😂😂
@nerevar8823 Incorrect, im just not a little freeloader that expects everything for nothing you mug, most of my collection were paid for when brand new at full prices, if you genuinely want something you will pay the price, if not youre just a dreamer like those dreamers that come to buy a car and cant really afford it now jog on.
@@donaldmackerel I'm not a scalper, I dont even sell games. 😂