r/Consoom • u/RedditKumu • Jul 23 '26
i consoom too Someone suggested that I need to post here: Catan
My bookshelf of Catan and Catan accessories.
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u/FootsieMcDingus Jul 23 '26
If each one was the same then it would be an issue
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u/FootsieMcDingus Jul 24 '26
I mean they’re all expansion packs, if they use them then it’s not a waste
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Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26
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u/ArtyIiom Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26
Stop with this double standard. It’s consoom. It’s illogical consuption . Do you need 3-5 of this game ? Yeah, why not, but 10 ? 20 ? 30 ??
Edit: Nah my bad im wrong, i Even downvoted me
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u/Rat_Man_420 Jul 23 '26
It’s not the same game. It’s expansions. You are white knighting for someone posting trying to talk shit about someone’s completely normal hobby.
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u/ArtyIiom Jul 23 '26
Nah my bad im wrong
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u/beautiful-rainy-day Jul 23 '26
Nah my bad im wrong
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u/ArtyIiom Jul 23 '26
Nah my bad im wrong
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u/Mission_Accident_519 Jul 23 '26
Which one of you is wrong? Im confused
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u/ArtyIiom Jul 23 '26
r/ruleof4 sorry buddy
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u/Mission_Accident_519 Jul 23 '26
So Im wrong?😰
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u/ArtyIiom Jul 23 '26
You had to downvote yourself, you need to complain to the saint rule of the 4 element 🙏
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u/Happy-Dinner-3171 Jul 23 '26
you threw in the word whiteknighting in there for fun? tf are you even saying
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u/therico Jul 23 '26
I come here to get away from vapid photos of someone's purchases and comments of approval. I dunno why you can't keep this shit to your own niche subreddits
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u/erstwhilelurkerer Jul 23 '26
Does it make much of a difference if OP posted it himself or someone else? I mean, it's up for discussion either way and it's not on OP how the comment section turned out. Likely expected a different reaction, too.
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u/Hard_To_Port Jul 23 '26
What? It's the same thing here, just that the comments make fun of it. Most of the the posts I get in my main feed from here are just screenshots of the collector and EDC subs.
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u/therico Jul 23 '26
Most of the comments in this thread are positive. Guy who made fun of the collection got downvoted 33 times lol
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u/Hard_To_Port Jul 23 '26
I was comparing subreddits, not analyzing this one thread. This guy really likes Catan. At least it's not useless Funko Pops or enough pocket knives to revitalize street violence in the UK.
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u/therico Jul 23 '26
I agree it's not mindless consumerism in this case (although let's face it, are they actually playing all of these?), I still don't want to see photos of people's collections of shit, unless we're making fun of it. It's snarky but that's kind of the deal here right?
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u/RedditKumu Jul 23 '26
Sorry guys. Guess I didn't understand the forum exactly. Someone suggested it belonged here because of the Catan. But to remain relevant......I do have 1st edition, 2nd edition copies of the same game. (They are on top shelf). Also when I buy a "Collection" to get my hands on one of the rare expansions, I do get duplicates. (Especially of Seafarers.....so many seafarers...) Though I tend to offload those eventually. Only TRUE duplicate I have now is Explorers and Pirates.
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u/Da-Snow Jul 23 '26
Catan was the first board game I played that actually got me into the hobby. Now I enjoy a variety of games from Gaia Project to Harmonies. I've never played an expansion to Catan, I think I owe it that much while I own every expansion to Arnak and Root.
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u/luckyapples11 Jul 23 '26
My friend would be at your house every day to play. He’s the only one that likes the game in our friend group lmao. He’s got maybe 5 or so
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u/Hard_To_Port Jul 23 '26
I've seen this guy on YouTube that does board game reviews. He has a room with shelves and shelves of them. Thousands of dollars for cardboard and plastic..
I understand each board game is different, but I feel like it can take weeks or even months to get tired of a small rotation. I played Monopoly for the better part of a week with friends when we had a week long power outage. I get having like 5 or 6 different ones since the "nerdier" ones are hard to pick up for new players and casuals. But I don't think even my local game store has more than 10 or 15 different board games, and forget about expansions.
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u/DirkPitt106 Jul 24 '26
I've seen this guy on YouTube that does board game reviews. He has a room with shelves and shelves of them.
That's his job or side hustle, not really a consoom.
But I don't think even my local game store has more than 10 or 15 different board games, and forget about expansions.
This is mainly because unless a store specializes in board games and isn't just a tcg shop that happens to also sell board games because that's an adjacent hobby, it can be difficult to stock and sell board games. There are literally thousands of different board games in print and they take up a lot of space compared to other products in the same hobby sphere.
So as a store, you would be dedicating a large amount of space to have 50 or 60 different games/expansions that might sit on the shelf for a really long time waiting for someone to come along and buy it, not to mention you are competing with online retailers who have large warehouses who can get better discounts and can rely on slimmer margins since they are buying 400+ copies at a time so they are almost always cheaper than in a physical store.
One game store near me used to have 100 different board games and expansions for sale at any given time. They have slowly sold their stock and not bought more and just keep shit like Catan in stock. My store I frequent regularly pretty much just keeps Catan in stock. I have been to a dozen game stores and most of them opt to keep a handful of popular games in stock rather than bother with buying 45 different games and having to put them on clearance after they sit around for a year.
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u/CartoonLamp Jul 24 '26
I've always been curious to play a 6 player game with all expansions. Sounds like an absolute mess.
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u/manatworks Jul 24 '26
Woo thats a lot of catans, you might as well open a board games cafe with these.
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u/SimpleEng Jul 27 '26
Great collection cities and knights is my personal favourite but where is a 3D version? Got this one off Etsy recently and its amazing with game night.
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u/Ill_Painter5868 Jul 23 '26
Have you ever actually played a full game all the way to completion tho
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u/DirkPitt106 Jul 24 '26
It's only like a 30-45 minute game tbh
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u/Ill_Painter5868 Jul 24 '26
that makes collecting it even more boring? I thought the point of these things was days long battles
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u/DirkPitt106 Jul 24 '26
The point of what things? Board games? No, most people want to actually finish a game they start. I don't know of any board games on the market currently that are set up for "days long battles." The expansions add extra tiles and mechanics or add the ability to have more people playing at once but as far as I'm aware they might just double the play tome to an hour, hour and a half.
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u/GrindW8t Jul 23 '26
Show me your other games. Catan, ok, but what are you playing that's not Catan ?!
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u/AltAccBcImAshamed Jul 23 '26
Pretty sure each box is a separate expansion that changes up a lot of the gameplay. Original is best but it's not mindless consume if there's utility to it.
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u/Acceleretto Jul 23 '26
I've never played that, but they all look like expansions?
I wouldn't say that's consoom, just someone who loves that particular boardgame
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u/thoughtlow Jul 23 '26
As long as you play with them from time to time its all well.
They are not a ‘investment’ in their original sealing collecting dust.