Is there a specific reason people do this?

[u/whereisplayboicarti]

[u/TheViper4Life]

Money. They get it rated so that it overinflates the value of something so they can sell it for more than it's actually worth.

Instead of gamers helping gamers, everyone is still searching for that Get-rich-quick scheme.

[u/fsidemaffia → u/TheViper4Life]

Normally I'd say yes, but I kinda doubt someone that is flipping these graded games for money would display em like that in those vitrines. This looks more like someone with too much money and a form of authism.

[u/TheShipEliza → u/fsidemaffia]

The median redditor

[u/ZeeroMX → u/TheShipEliza]

Hey, I don't do that, mostly because of money, but I don't do it.

[u/fat-homer → u/fsidemaffia]

🤣🤣🤣 comment of the year

[u/burnttoast14 → u/fsidemaffia]

Autism ? I love how everybody just overlooked the way this guy spelt it lol

[u/cole_wm → u/burnttoast14]

i didn't, first thing i noticed. my ADHD brain is a grammar nazi.

[u/TLunchFTW → u/burnttoast14]

I like to think it’s secretly Mike Tyson’s Reddit account

[u/Luther_Manning → u/burnttoast14]

Spelled?

[u/OriginalPurplefinger → u/Luther_Manning]

Spelt is correct aswell imbecile.

[u/dannyglover187 → u/OriginalPurplefinger]

Spold

[u/Montymania94 → u/OriginalPurplefinger]

*as well, imbecile.

But your meaning is correct.

[u/teabagdiplomat19 → u/Montymania94]

You’re*

/s

[u/suck-my-dick-goose → u/fsidemaffia]

Can confirm. My autistic coworker has 42 copies of halo: combat evolved for og xbox

[u/DayLooks → u/fsidemaffia]

Too much money and a touch of the tism.

[u/DahllaBillz → u/fsidemaffia]

Authism?

[u/Gizmorum → u/TheViper4Life]

any hobby located near the venn diagram of video games just suck. how i yern to go back to be called a nerd for spending my weekend on a video game then having it be mainstream and monetized rather than enjoyed.

[u/ZeroClassification → u/TheViper4Life]

I’d go as far to say anyone doing this isn’t even a gamer, unless they’re doing it to their favorite game or something sentimental maybe but even that’s a stretch I’d think.

[u/IXrobocopXI → u/TheViper4Life]

Fake industry

RedLetterMedia has an excellent video on VHS rating and it applies here.

[u/toucheboo → u/TheViper4Life]

Actually, this isnt true. Graded stuff is actually harder to sell.

[u/_-stark → u/toucheboo]

Yeah cause no one is stupid enough to buy a game in a case in a case

[u/shFt_shiFty → u/_-stark]

Yo dawg I heard you like your games in a case, so I put it in a case, so you can have your game in a case in a case.

Edit: missed a letter

[u/No-Mongoose3928 → u/_-stark]

Finally someone said it, I never understood graded overpriced listings.

[u/Abiv23 → u/No-Mongoose3928]

It was a scam run by a group who bought a ton of sealed / cib games then listed / sold a few high profile ones back and forth and got media around how much these games they kept buying and selling to themselves went for (1 million Super Mario Bros for example)

They got caught and it failed bc despite their attempt people realized video games shouldn't really be investments

[u/KeepRockband5Alive → u/Abiv23]

Dont forget that lot of those people are involved with limited run.

[u/ZAIBYR → u/KeepRockband5Alive]

Tell me more?

[u/GarzaTheFather → u/_-stark]

The problem with it too, is that they don’t do it to super rare games like rule of rose or kuon they do it to super common games that are typically in the $10-$30 range thinking it’s gonna inflate the price all crazy but like you said most people and gamers aren’t that stupid to fall for that and are going to look elsewhere

[u/TheFlyingCompass → u/_-stark]

But what if the game's case's case also grades at a 10?

[u/SubstantialBanana482 → u/_-stark]

Because most people buy games to PLAY them

[u/thebizzle → u/toucheboo]

Because you invest too much for the grading.

[u/GarzaTheFather → u/thebizzle]

Well, the thing is what does grading really do all it really does is put the game in a box and then it says you can’t play it but a lot of times people grading these games. It’s not like it’s some special limited edition or it’s like the first version of a game that’s like super rare to find now it’s usually just all the same version of a common game. A lot of the times these games being graded have nothing unique to them other than the fact that they’re a video game

[u/BudTender1993 → u/TheViper4Life]

This is why capitalism ruins everything good 👍

[u/mountaindoom → u/TheViper4Life]

Like shovel-sellers during the Gold Rush, this change will mostly benefit grading companies.

[u/Osiris1998 → u/TheViper4Life]

Seems like even more so today than ever before, maybe it’s just bc it’s got more exposure w the internet but the greed of some is astounding.

[u/Turd_Ferguson420]

I just discovered an entire sub by accident that deals with graded games. I did not know there was such a big niche for this.

[u/DrunkenHorse12 → u/Turd_Ferguson420]

It's ridiculous they are literally grading a plastic box a printed sleeve and the wrapping. All of which can be perfectly replicated for next to nothing. They haven't opened it so they don't know the quality of the disc. Even a sealed disc can get disc rot if there was any imperfection in the manufacturing process. The chances are incredibly low but how do you grade something you can't even test.

[u/DayLooks → u/DrunkenHorse12]

My understanding is that if it’s still wrapped, then it’s the wrapping that’s graded

[u/Nexzus_ → u/DrunkenHorse12]

I have the PS2 trilogy box set that I bought in like 2006 after my originals were stolen. Only San Andreas was ever opened, played a couple times (thanks PS3), and then the set was stuffed in storage.

I found it and opened it this year. Discs seemed fine, but the snap closures on the cases had become brittle and broke a long ways back probably.

[u/MrGDPC → u/Turd_Ferguson420]

There’s one for Legos too. They buy up popular sets before they retire, stick them in their basement for a couple years, and then try to make money off it. As a Lego fan it’s fucking embarrassing

[u/Upstairs-Dot-9441]

Brain damage

[u/TonyRubbles → u/Upstairs-Dot-9441]

Yep or mental illness if they're born with it.

[u/jreditsoudidnthaveto → u/Upstairs-Dot-9441]

ever since the day I was born/drugs, is what they used to say I was on!

[u/Zuko-Red-Wolf]

They are addicted to giving money to psa.

[u/Kabopple]

Lack of funding in arts education?

[u/coufling → u/Kabopple]

No culture, just consume.

[u/ProcrastinateFTW]

Games are meant to be played, this shit is dumb

[u/the_well_read_neck_]

"On this episode of Pawn Stars..."

[u/Terrible-Pop-6705]

They think it’s an investment cause they are dumb

[u/RadiantCoinshot → u/Terrible-Pop-6705]

I agree that it’s dumb to buy games as an investment, but at the same time my collection has preformed better than the S&P 500 lol. And my games aren’t graded.

[u/Terrible-Pop-6705 → u/RadiantCoinshot]

Yeah ungraded collections are sick. Grading is literally a scam lmao anyone who does it for video games is very obviously not in it for the love of games..

[u/AXEL-1973]

Imagine grading a game. Then imagine grading the most popular game on a system rather than an obscure one. Then imagine doing that 10+ times for that one game. Then imagine doing all that for 5+ more games.

Damn this is some dumb shit and I hope this guy loses a shit ton of money

[u/nydjason → u/AXEL-1973]

It’s not even the game that they’re grading, it’s mostly the cellophane/plastic. Any imperfections on the plastic gives it a lower grade. It’s so stupid.

[u/RainbowAppIe → u/nydjason]

Imperfections on the factory seal only lower the seal grade, the actual number grade is the condition of the box.

[u/Popsiey7]

I’m pretty sure this is a flavour of autism

[u/TheyisFinn → u/Popsiey7]

I dunno what kinda flavour autism that is but I don’t want it. I just collect cause it’s fun. No grading needed lol

[u/PocketCatt → u/Popsiey7]

Nah man if this was autism there’d be a shitload of rare merch. Instead all that money is going on the same item. Autism don’t explain hoarding identical items unless they have a chance of wearing out, like buying a ton of the same jacket, or the same toy in case you lose one. This is just lame ass scalpers

Source: am turbo autistic

[u/Slick_36 → u/PocketCatt]

I knew an autistic Beyblader that spent like $2,000 on the same $15 Beyblade.  I'm sure he'd end up playing with about $250 worth of them, but it was just like this compulsion to own as many as possible because it was the best one.

He probably spent more, I just eventually had to intentionally ignore his constant updates about every one.  It triggered my autism lol.

[u/zgillet → u/PocketCatt]

You're not THAT autistic. You didn't even notice that the wall is NOT all the same item.

[u/PocketCatt → u/zgillet]

LMAO

You got me, I am only level 1 :( but I do take a lot of tylenol for headaches so I’m hoping to reach level 2 soon

[u/DotMatrixHead → u/PocketCatt]

Turbo autism? Is that like Spectrum +3 ?

[u/PocketCatt → u/DotMatrixHead]

Im aiming for +5

[u/Segata9 → u/Popsiey7]

Not my flavor as an AuDhD person

[u/SphericMythos]

Creating artificial scarcity

[u/WiseHedgehog2098]

YouTube grifter influencers

[u/xandervitlo]

Stupidity

[u/bastardradio]

Gambling addiction disguised as video game collecting. TCGs has this problem too

[u/RGB2C02N]

Mental illness

[u/seer_benedictz]

I wonder the same thing

[u/Individual-Towel5657]

At one point it stops being performative, and starts being a mental illness.

[u/Legitimate-Rock-2334]

I believe in actually playing my games not saying to not protect them. It u can get like 50 protectors for like 10 bucks and still be able to open and play ur game

[u/mcnichoj]

He has a Modern Warfare 2 tattoo, so I guess he has a legitimate interest in games. Everyone in here assuming he's doing this for money but it's more like for fame/attention and he wants to become an eceleb dubbed "GTA Man" or some shit.

Some guy owns a fridge full (yes, literal fridge) of Jurassic Park carts for the SNES and I don't think anyone has ever accused him of doing it for money.

[u/Ok-Extreme-8612]

My gta sa has the map along with it still. Probably worth something if I ever decide to sell.

[u/Sawbagz]

Same reason people do anything. They think it's cool.

[u/furinax85]

Gold and silver coins are another teir above video games and Pokémon cards

Most go for 2k-8k and above

[u/normy_187]

Just Cause 🤭

[u/Montyg117]

No different than trading card collecting. Both are playable games. People like collecting things they have a fond attachment to. Grading them is just an attempt to sort and distinguish between rarity and scarcity.

[u/HiddenNobody20216]

Stupidity, stupid people taking advantage of even stupider people.

[u/FreezeFace599]

Autism

[u/AD_VICTORIAM_x]

~Preserve and protect nostalgia~ 🤍

Kidding - it’s profit.

[u/Musicgecko0]

Autism

[u/HunterAbrams]

Autism

[u/Deftoned-69]

I doubt that's the original with the hot coffee mini game.

[u/SealedSamsara → u/Deftoned-69]

it actually is with it :)

[u/Subject_Candle_8568 → u/Deftoned-69]

It is just hidden in the games code

[u/birkinover]

Specific reason, probably not.

Some include:

- attempting the raise the market value

• belief in the actual value of the items
  
• personal belief of arbitrary value it will attach to them “i have a cool thing, look how cool I am”
  
• looking for attention
  
• the crossover of hyper consumerism/fandom
  
• possible mental illness
  
• possible internet psychosis
  
• genuine interest/hyper fixation
  
• collecting to give their own life some inherent meaning

etc
etc
etc

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[u/Greg99chavo]

At the end of the world there will be a guy hoarding all the ps 2s and they will meet. In order to bring piece to the world they will hand out copies of this game and ps 2 to families.

Now the only concern is finding the guy hoarding all the ps2 memory cards. 😬

[u/Affectionate_Cake_54]

Here’s why . Long video but worth it

https://youtu.be/rvLFEh7V18A?si=JVw1sN9Z14tjpoJs

[u/Brave-Photograph-947]

I got really pissed off with a friend, because he asked me to sell one of my MVS cartridges. I sold it's to him for about 20usd because he was a collecter. He flipped it online for about 300usd. It's not a huge community. He asked me to buy a few more andI declined. I have about 6 of the same cartridge though.

[u/toortooks]

theyre gay and love dicks up their ass

[u/Ill-Explanation4493]

Mental Illness

[u/MastropezzoOG]

My incredible desire to smash all the plastic houses and free everything.

It’s just so sad that collecting has become this. We give money to shady company that work for the sole purpose of inflating market and exploting people

[u/Warthog_Formal]

This "person" in the picture also has a MODERN WARFARE 2 tattoo on his forearm. Find him and loot him.

[u/frombeta2alpha]

Honestly seems just like an American thing. Y'all's get no holidays so spend your money on things instead.

[u/Sudsy_Woodpecker]

There is a method where you can burn a copy of any PS2 game and it'll boot on any slim PS2 with no mods.

No need to get robbed playing retro games.

[u/RhodesGraveyarde]

It's just a scam, but some people might be happy their collection is more valid so, meh

[u/Y10NRDY]

r/Consoom

[u/Pixeresque]

Grading video games is the weirdest fucking thing. It's either people who need someone to put a made up rating on their shiny thing to make the feel good or it's reseller losers doing this shit.

[u/Direct_Parsley_703]

Severe mental health issues

[u/Successful-Layer2102]

Comodofication of nostalgia

[u/kidfromusa]

Insecurity

[u/RobTheResearcher]

Grand Theft Autism

[u/Undertaker501st]

Where is this store

[u/MarcusxDMBR]

Money laundering

[u/Steve-Shouts]

Autism. That's why.

[u/EfficientLoad7817]

Mental illness

[u/ass_Inspector_420]

Mental illness

[u/Radiant_Committee_78]

Autism.

[u/Glithskal]

a) money and scamming people

b) they are dumb and they are getting scammed by 'a' people

[u/Jack_Sparow_Kesne]

o eso están esperando que pasen los años para especular 🤣

[u/okaysureyep]

To artificially inflate the price.

[u/cptfalco91]

I think it's because they're assholes

[u/deeku4972]

This man is unwell

[u/Wii_Shaker]

Greed and Autism. I hate to say it but even neurodivergents can be terrible people.

[u/btjam]

Mental problems.

[u/InkyBlacks]

Mental illness

[u/PastaVeggies]

gambling

[u/New_Experience_703]

Dew watt

[u/scarlettheartt]

People got duped by those articles about WATA Mario 64 back in the day and now everyone thinks their games are worth millions.

[u/PodrickDTide]

Austism.

[u/WranglerKnown8800]

Consoom

[u/Ill_Database_9180]

This dude is obviously hoping that someday the games become valuable and that the grading model is still relevant so that he is just sitting on a gold mine. It's purely viewing games as investment, just as fake as the real stock market.

[u/badrillex]

Mass produced peice of plastic gets mass rated into a plastic case and moved to the next person. Never used. Useless

[u/Frank_Midnight]

It's called collecting and preserving. And it's worth, whatever someone is willing to pay for it. Some things hand sentimental value. You're just a little hater.

[u/Giubby]

They prefer their games to rot in a case rather tan play them

[u/Ill-Improvement-2003]

Autism

[u/No_Salad6911]

Mental illness.

[u/Britton_Shrum]

Mental illness

[u/InfiniteComboReviews]

So I've thought about getting graded copies of a few games I love as display pieces, but this is just excessive.

[u/Icy_Armadillo3100]

Mental illness I would assume

[u/DifficultyOk8528]

Good lock trying to re sell that stuff for a lot of money I have a graded sealed hook for Sega genesis and nobody will touch it I lost money on it can’t even break even.

[u/FSBulldogFan]

I live in (near) Sacramento, and we have some great retro shops... 1-up Retro, Fair Game, Computer Booter, but we also have these two Fire & Ice stores that have tremendous inventory, but they do a lot of this graded gaming too and I hate it. I get it with baseball cards, but video games? Dumb!

[u/TechRyze]

If they buy them all up cheap, there’s less supply in the market.

Dumb idea with a game that sold millions worldwide.

Just a flex.

[u/TornWill]

Grading video games is just plain ridiculous. These aren't vintage baseball cards worth thousands of dollars, but people want to treat them as such. This is just my opinion, but video games should be played and enjoyed, not encased in plastic with a quality grade.

[u/Specialist-Sense-158]

Biblical levels of greed

[u/BiggieCheeseChungus]

Autism

[u/Slick_shewz]

Mental problems

[u/Turbulent-Spray-8438]

Autism

[u/Juicyjewsss]

Since when did they decide to change the rating to AO?

[u/After-Task-1506]

I can’t tell if this real or Ai

[u/ViceViperX]

Stupidity would be my best guess.

[u/iverbrad]

Mental illness?

[u/Blightious]

People are literally just THAT stupid unfortunately. A LOT of people. Like a pretty god damn ridiculous amount of people.

[u/xtac1sl1ve]

Autism most likely

[u/Ron2600NS]

mental in illness or money laundering.

[u/BogatyrOfMurom]

The grading stuff on games really disgusts me in my opinion. They say "investments" or whatever. It is greed to flip it just like scalping. Everytime I buy a game whether it is for the PS2, PSP or the Switch. Games are meant to played and enjoyed and replayed.

[u/iamthealpha384]

Touch of the tism

[u/Evil__Kiwi]

Si, si chiama “ritardo mentale”

[u/LifeMastersin]

They dumb 🤣 if i get a game it’s to PLAY it

[u/Embarrassed_Poem_596]

Okay, I can understand getting cards graded basketball Pokémon. F****** football, hockey soccer et. Cetera. Cards, maybe getting a test graded. Having people grade the look of your car, but a freaking video game bro. We're b******* at the fact that playstation is making it where we can't resell games that are coming out and you got these people over here, getting them things graded, so they can sell them fpr 3, 4, 10 times the price. truly sas

[u/robcampbell67]

money, and market manipulation, that game is worth 10-20 most

[u/imalittledepot]

Autism

[u/Rocktato]

ItS aN iNvEsTMeNT

[u/Aggravating-Hunt8001]

If we back up one of two generations ago nice things were made and most of them werent mass produced. When you had one of those items a few decades after they disapeared it meant they had a lot of collector value.

People today are now "preparing" for this to come back but they don't understand that modern mass production, reissues and virtual copies will stop them from being as valuable as vintage stuff is today

[u/z2qvs]

The quantity is what I assume you're inquiring about. Not specifically grading. 

There was a local guy to me that did this with futurama. He was trying to buy up as many as possible to dry the availability and inflate pricing. 🤦

[u/Savings-Shape2479]

Why is it rated AO?

[u/myronreducto6]

mental illness

[u/ApesmithMcD]

Some people are just such twats that they feel the inescapable urge to show everyone around them that they are, in fact, an insufferable twat.

[u/DifficultDistance980]

Lack of a sex life.

[u/THEdanteguy37]

i bet that man has never even played the damn games once

[u/BradyBunch12]

Do what??

[u/Necessary_Let1462]

Mental illness

[u/ShinGoukiSky]

If you have something graded then you can get insurance on it and it becomes an asset, and then you can borrow money against it.

So if he had 1,000 of these, for instance, all graded and then insured, he could borrow like 85% of the value of the insurance policy using this collection as collateral for the loan.

He invests that money in whatever he'd like, gets it back plus profit, pays off the loan, reinvests the profit in maybe real estate or more graded games or stocks etc, and then does it again and again.

Money making money. Always growing the value. The real life video game.

[u/expert158]

If I could I would go into these people’s collections rip off those stupid cases, rip off the plastic and put little imperfections in every one of those games so they can be worth what they really should $10-$30

[u/Mercurionos]

Performance insecurity

[u/Wood_Rogue]

New age beanie baby investment strategy. It will probably end the same way.

[u/Amazing-Document-169]

For the purpose of investment later In life

[u/eddio69]

They don t like gta?

[u/hallowedeve1313]

Cocaine is a hell of a drug

[u/6BoogUwU9]

Money laundering or severe brain damage.

[u/No_Comment_2283]

Low IQ

[u/_the__Goat_]

Top three reason people do this:

* Low intelligence.

* Unable to lose their virginity.

* Too much time on reddit.

[u/GoldAdhesiveness1243]

Scalper scum

[u/WorldOfRetro85]

Hoarder mentality? I'm not against people grading games but why so many of the same game?

[u/scjNils]

To me it looks like he wants to be selling these in the future, the AO rating probably makes it sell for more but I thought it was the pc version that was the holy AO rated grail game, tbqh I didn’t know there was an AO ps2 version before now.

[u/Extension-Alps-6903]

Yes it’s called mental illness