its easier
Luxury consumers are masochistic status-seeking idiots, basically, and you put them on your hook by mistreating them and making them believe they have to be worthy of the products rather than the other way around.
its probably also an attempt to make them feel like they belong to some kinda special club, a part of a "family", something exclusive
is it true that in order to play Warhammer, you have to own official sets and figurines, unlike other tabletop rp games where you can build your own?
Another prime example of a consoomer treating collecting like speed running. It's especially dumb because of how much effort it takes to build and paint a kit, I doubt those boxes are even open. Also why get into warhammer now when long time fans are jumping ship due to price increases?
You can use home made stuff, I got a 3d printer so I can print fan proxies and custom bits. The issue is that GW stores also host games and a lot of players gravitate there. So it's official or nothing with maybe a bit of leeway for 3rd party heads or other small bits, a lot of tournaments are the same way too.
Another reason is that the re-sell market for those bags seems to be booming, they created so much scarcity around their products that it's sometimes possible to resell them for more (if i have to believe reddit gossip) so it's making it harder for people to be able to just buy a bag and flip it immediatly.
So while I don't actually play 40k myself, I absorbed some knowledge from people who do. You could get away with placeholders when playing a private game like friends or a standard game store, in fact, they used to encourage people to make their own stuff. If you want to play in an official store, you have to own the actual models and they are notorious assholes about it.
I still play a lot of my old shit every year or two, but I sold some N64, Gameboy and SNES games that are way overpriced now, bought some good flash carts, pocketed like $500 and I still have the ability to play everything I played before. As long as you still have your original hardware, the games still play indistinguishable from an original cart on the flashcart. I have no idea why someone would pay $200 for Conker's Bad Fur Day when you could buy a flashcart that plays it and every other N64 game for half that.
Collectors are funny like that. I intend to finally offload the games though. Like you said I have no need for them other than the nostalgia that I've had these since I was a kid. I don't need my original 1993 cart to relive the game. If someone wants to pay me $500 for a game with manual, I'm not going to stop them right now. Maybe a few years ago I would have felt bad and tossed someone a bone, but if the mouth breathers and "investors" will pay it so be it. I smell a bubble about to burst in that market soon.
These carts simply will not last forever either. I think we're about to hit a hard limit on their lifespan because the stored data will stop being stored. Carts will wipe themselves. There will be no worth in keeping these things in a couple decades beyond simply putting them on shelves.
The shrink wrap on those unopened ones will probably biodegrade before then.
That is another way but even opened games will inevitably fail. I'm seeing that due to being ROM based NES type carts will probably have a few more years left in them generally, but I'm hearing 50 something years which for earlier titles will be within that 20 year mark. By the 2040s I am guessing Atari titles, nes/master system titles will begin to be paperweights. For flash storage based carts like have been utilized for several decades including in the gameboy lineup and the switch things don't look nearly as hot. The issue more relates to if you don't power your game up for a long period of time but for collectors they simply do not play most of what they have so it's going to be a problem.
Now imagine this but with cars and you have Ferrari.
Judging by your username you seem to be the right person to expand on this
Ferrari is one of those companies that's very big on their image, the whole company is a racing company that sells civilian market cars to fund their racing programs. When you buy a Ferrari you're buying an "experience" you become part of the "family" and they basically start keeping tabs on you for when they drop their special edition and anniversary edition cars. If you suck Ferrari's dick hard enough and project the proper Ferrari image as a "brand ambassador" you get put on the list (or at least higher up the list) for limited run cars.
actual fuckin white elephant shit
Well... you will have money, if you sell it all lol
People got into Warhammer because of being stuck inside in 2020, that and new vidya games coming out. He's bought them planning to build them on the weekends i bet, not realizing that's a years + worth.
