I buy games to play them and I feel that games are meant to be played. However, on multiple occasions including now, I have made it a point to say that people should be able to collect in their own way. There is nothing in this hobby that angers me more than someone who believes that their own way of collecting is the right way and everyone else should follow their method. If someone wants to buy a game to keep it on their shelf to look at it, that is their business. The most common argument that I hear against collectors who don't play their games is that they are taking away from someone else's ability to play those games since there are now fewer copies available. I find this argument weak since there are so many other methods of playing games now. I love physical copies of games as much as the next person, but if you truly must play something that you can't find, there is almost always another way of doing so. For example, if you can't get a copy of a Limited Run Game because they only had 2,000 copies and they sold out in under 1 minute, buy the digital version. Yeah it sucks having the digital version, but at least you will be able to play the game. I see way too many people complaining that once the copies of LRGs are gone, they will never be able to play it.
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Maybe, just once, someone will call me "sir" without adding, "you're making a scene."