Re: [SWCollect] Greetings

2002-10-02 Thread Jim Leonard
CcomputerGameCollector wrote: Starting to think nobody got my last email? Either that or this email list is awefully quiet! I think we're still debating what to talk about regarding the website. :-) If you check the archives (details should be at the bottom of this message), there is

Re: [SWCollect] Greetings

2002-10-02 Thread CcomputerGameCollector
Dan Chisarick wrote: Also, all the game stores around here are displacing PC titles with console titles. Its almost to the point where the PC gets one shelf, and consoles get the rest of the store. Compound that with PC games now being published in boxes slightly larger than a

Re: [SWCollect] Greetings

2002-10-02 Thread Jim Leonard
CcomputerGameCollector wrote: I think what computer software packaging has become is disguisting. Tiny boxes, and NEVER shrinkwrapped. It's sad, esp. in a time where some of the coolest boxes could probably be created. Was there an offical cut off time where the packaging of games

Re: [SWCollect] Greetings

2002-10-02 Thread Alexander Zöller
Hi, thanks for responding to our concerns one by one :) Price guide: many of us are reluctant to work with fixed prices. It tends to take some of the fun out of collecting if everyone knows what they can expect for an item. Cruel as it may sound, I prefer to deal with the occasional uneducated

Re: [SWCollect] Greetings

2002-10-02 Thread Alexander Zöller
Aye, perhaps I have not made it abundently clear, but that's basically what it is. What else could it be really? The going rate is the value pretty much. Fair enough, thanks for explaining this again. Let's hope that the number of people collecting computer games is growing though.

Re: [SWCollect] Greetings

2002-10-02 Thread Marco Thorek
Jim Leonard schrieb: The cutoff was about 6 months ago; I haven't seen anything large since that time. Around here, in Germany, it was 12-18 months ago. EA was the first to announce that cardboard boxes are outdated and subsequently published new games only in DVD cases. Others followed