Packing up all of my physical games had me thinking. Is it still necessary for me to hold on to these things? Sure, they are worth quite a lot to me. I have played a majority of them and as the saying goes, you can't take it with you, and in this rapid digital age, physical game ownership just feels quite limp, quite vapid. I know it's probably the exhaustion talking - I dare you to pack around 3,000 games and smile at the end of the process - but I want to entertain the thought seriously for a minute. Do I lose anything if I let go of these games at this point in my life? Sure, the void can be felt with such a drastic measure, but I have a majority of my games digitally these days, thanks to the fully evolved Personal Computer gaming distribution. Let's just pretend that I am willing to make this change in my life as a gamer, will I miss my physical games? I mean, once they are shelved, it's not like I caress them every single day, and it's not like I actually play them often. I get a lot of digital games nowadays, so it's not like I am ever going to run out of things to play before my eventual death. So then why are they still here? They are causing me a lot of headaches because I have to ensure that they are well taken care of both when they are stationary and when they need to be transported somewhere. This move involves a long, fantastical, epic, dangerous(?) journey that in itself will take a lot out of me - I am already feeling the effect of it - and it just feels like perhaps it's just not worth all the pain and hassle of taking these along with me.
The next step then, theoretically, is to sell these games, right? But what does that entail? Surely, the demand for these games I have are not high, especially these days when all of them are available online somewhere for people to download, illegally, for free. The collectors probably already own a bulk of these games so at least I can probably sell about 10% of the rarest ones to them. I supposed I could sell all of these to a GameStop or similar store even if it means I would only be getting $500 of store credit for close to 3,000 games. It's that how much my gaming life is worth right now? Just $500 of store credits? It's kind of depressing if you really think about it. Maybe it would be cathartic to throw them all into the dumpster and just forget they ever existed? It's in our nature that when we bring in physical things, whether they are gaming related or your boring everyday items, the last think we think about is the ease of transporting them to the next dwelling because we all desire some kind stability in our lives and we always think that we have that locked in, until something happens. I just want this transition to be over with: I don't think I'm coping with it well.
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