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Weeaboos are now ruining the retro collecting scene in Japan. How can we stop them?
- Thread starter German Hops
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That's how capitalism works. If someone sees something he thinks he can sell for more money, he does.
If someone is so stupid to pay much higher prices it's this person's fault prices go up.
Markets will regulate.
Don't pay stupid prices for that stuff and all would be good.
PS5 prices were only so because there were enough people out there that are willing to pay the price.
If someone is so stupid to pay much higher prices it's this person's fault prices go up.
Markets will regulate.
Don't pay stupid prices for that stuff and all would be good.
PS5 prices were only so because there were enough people out there that are willing to pay the price.
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unlurkified
Member
What’s with this guy? It’s not like it was a coordinated museum heist done by grimy foreigners. Smacks of xenophobia.
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
I'm not a 100% sure but I feel confident some reporter will tell us it's those damn evil middle aged white men that are to blame!
Dirk Benedict
Member
That would keep most "collectors" away. You ever want a preview of them? Go to Twitch, in the retro section. They are scattered about.
NeoIkaruGAF
Gold Member
I thought the biggest retro game shops and districts had been almost wiped clean by foreigners about a decade ago already, after a good decade of websites talking about the wonders of Akihabara and the like. And this guy says that a year ago there were so many more games?
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nush
Member
I was reading this stuff probably the same time. Then the advice was not to look in Akiharbara and to find Hard Off and Super Potato in smaller towns. Maybe that’s what the big retro shops did?
Thick Thighs Save Lives
Gold Member
At least leave some for the localsThick Thighs Save Lives
Joking aside, I mostly collect PS360 and newer games, including Switch.
TransTrender
Gold Member
Why does this really matter?
The Japanese are going extinct anyway so what's the problem with weebs buying everything?
The Japanese are going extinct anyway so what's the problem with weebs buying everything?
Lambogenie
Member
They themselves wanted to play in retirement.
When I last went it wasn't great. Selection was really for native speakers. Super Potato had expensive stuff for the average tourist, the high value collectors bits.
All these youtubers including me are why stock is lower. Buying a retro looking Japanese game is also a novel souvenir in and of itself.
AREYOUOKAY?
Member
If only that were the case when they print so few in the first place. Of course I'm mainly talking about current Microsoft.
Ulysses 31
Member
You PSX boys must've had it good back then, Nintendo games rarely had a JPN or ENG language setting.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
HerjansEagleFeeder
Member
lol, please don't buy from my store my items are meant to collect dust there forever
P.Jack
Member
Really not that different from what’s happened to retro games everywhere. I’ve said it before; it’s a real shame how retro went from being the poor mans alternative to becoming the complete opposite. Some of the games I bought long ago are now worth 100s of eurodollars. It’s reaching a point where I almost don’t want to touch them. It is one of the main reasons I’m migrating to EverDrives and ODE solutions instead.
Wildebeest
Member
Dollar yen exchange rate is very favourable. Sucks for the Japanese who have to deal with yahoo tourists from the states yucking it up in their country with no respect shown, but that is how the world works. Even worse for weebs who left for Japan years ago because they are massive weebs raised on Nintendo and hentai and now their income is all in Yen.
Kiya's Guard
Member
Stores are complaining because customers buy products and the store earns money?
deriks
4-Time GIF/Meme God
So a store is selling their stuff... And this is bad?!
I agree if is for some sort of guy that doesn't really value and only has it to say that has it, but a lot of people buy because they're cheaper than US and, well, to play
Sometimes you just have to accept things, bro
I agree if is for some sort of guy that doesn't really value and only has it to say that has it, but a lot of people buy because they're cheaper than US and, well, to play
Sometimes you just have to accept things, bro
nush
Member
Would you like to pre-order to guarantee a copy day one?
Roman Empire
Member
Well, the news is more about the guy mad about obvious scalpers than foreigners buying stuff for themselves. Fuck scalpers.
Hugare
Member
Well, the store could limit the number of copies one person could buy
But by doing that, it would be favoring the customer but not the store. The store shouldnt care about your feelings, honestly. It sold the products that were probably there for a while, so that's good for the owner.
Tough luck, I guess.
But by doing that, it would be favoring the customer but not the store. The store shouldnt care about your feelings, honestly. It sold the products that were probably there for a while, so that's good for the owner.
Tough luck, I guess.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Poor guy just wants to see games sitting on store shelves.
Stop ruining things for him by buying videogames.
Stop ruining things for him by buying videogames.
MonkeyClaw36
Member
"I didn't plan on buying anything but here I am. Complaining that others do."
JohnnyTropics
Neo Member
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RoboFu
One of the green rats
Those people are just normal everyday people everywhere now unfortunately. It's literally painful to go to any public event.
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Gold Member
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
It’s gotten to the point I haven’t bothered to buy a single special/collector edition in years - they’re gone so fast I can’t get to them and fuck if I’m going to pay a single cent to a scalper. Let them hoard the cardboard.
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
White nerds with money are the worst. Can I have some? In all seriousness, I think this has been a thing for years. Nerds with money have ruined the retro scene in the states too. At some point, it became cool to have a wall of retro games you never play in your man-boy cave.
RoboFu
One of the green rats
lol wut?
This is the dumbest thing I've read in a while. You are mad because collectors collect so now you can't collect? I don't get it.
And why does it matter that they are white are you a racist?
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Lol. There's no need to get mad about it. White nerds with money have simply bought up most of the stock and driven prices up in Japan and in the States. I stated facts. Nothing more. Calm down. I've never had an inkling for retro game collecting. I'm good.
KaiserBecks
Member
That's how capitalism works. If someone sees something he thinks he can sell for more money, he does.
If someone is so stupid to pay much higher prices it's this person's fault prices go up.
Markets will regulate.
Don't pay stupid prices for that stuff and all would be good.
PS5 prices were only so because there were enough people out there that are willing to pay the price.
All of a sudden, every scalper is just a capitalist
Do most of them pay taxes? Do most people who sell wanted items on eBay run a legitimate business? You are right in that people who are willing to pay those prices are enabling this. That doesn't make it "right" though.
Mephisto40
Member
Think this is the first time i've heard a store owner complain that people are buying things from their shop
StueyDuck
Member
Source: https://www.timeextension.com/news/...g-laments-japanese-resident-as-retro-runs-dry
This has gone too far with collectors in the West, in my opinion. They've ruined collecting here and now they're looking to ruin everything abroad.
How do you feel and what can we do to preserve Japan's historic gaming legacy?
I mean whats the outrage, the store sold a product and someone bought the product.
unless there is some law i am not aware of, this just sounds like a store wanting to make money so they can feed their families and possibly buy nice things for themselves.
nush
Member
Gatekeeping and a xenophobic boogieman.
keefged4
Member
I mean fuck resellers and scalpers, I think we can all agree with that. I recently went to Japan and picked up an absolute motherload of N64 stuff, with no intent to resell because I collect it. Surugaya's were a goldmine, especially outside of Tokyo. On one hand, The store is selling their products and making profit, so yay I guess? But on the other I resent those who are clearing out entire shelfs with intent to scalp and resell. In two minds about this, there isn't an easy "solution"
Yeah, but it’s not the norm in Japan, so it’s painful when tourists bring it with them here.
Seems about right. I went to some retro game shops in Akihabara last year and not only were 95% of the people there foreign tourists, but they were greasy looking and ugly too. But that only partly applies to me since I was still living in Japan on a student visa at the time, and so I wasn't strictly a tourist.
LazyParrot
Member
This isn't exactly a new thing. I went to Japan in 2018 and people were already bitching about it back then. The funny thing is that, then as now, it seems that most of the people complaining about foreigners buying all the games are foreigners themselves.
Doom_master1122
Neo Member
I used to live in Kyoto, and I believe there is only one Surugaya in the city (At least to my knowledge), Osaka has many more.
That said, I frequented that store often. I spent my time there during lock down, where no tourism was around, and well into when they opened back up to tourism. That store always had random stock issues. I walked in one day and half the PS1 games were gone, another week PS2 were missing.
I'm sure the influx of tourists will effect this, but from my own experience it looks exactly how I remember it.
That said, I frequented that store often. I spent my time there during lock down, where no tourism was around, and well into when they opened back up to tourism. That store always had random stock issues. I walked in one day and half the PS1 games were gone, another week PS2 were missing.
I'm sure the influx of tourists will effect this, but from my own experience it looks exactly how I remember it.
StereoVsn
Member
Yep, I buy most of my retro stuff either through eBay (US) or Amazon.jp
Sleepwalker
Member
All of a sudden, every scalper is just a capitalist
Yes they are capitalists lol. Do you know for a fact they don't pay tax or run a legitimate business? If there's money to be made there will be people making it, plain and simple.
Either way, don't care about this. I can't read japanese so I would never consider collecting jpn games.
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ResilientBanana
Member
Source: https://www.timeextension.com/news/...g-laments-japanese-resident-as-retro-runs-dry
This has gone too far with collectors in the West, in my opinion. They've ruined collecting here and now they're looking to ruin everything abroad.
How do you feel and what can we do to preserve Japan's historic gaming legacy?
Weeaboo, I've never heard this term, but after looking it up, I find it hilarious. Weeaboos are cringy as fuck.
As far as this situation goes, it is what it is. I'm not sure how you can stop it considering both the Weeaboo and the shop owner both make money which is technically how the value of these games go up in the first place.