Quoted from f3honda4me:

The one you're referring to didn't actually sell for $19k, looks like the seller just paid the fee to save pride/face and claim it sold for his insane price. Every other WOZ YBR sold for about $10k or less - their value didn't magically double in the last 2 months.

Quoted from drfrightner:

At the end of the day Yellow Brick Road version of WOZ is selling for the most money, that speaks volumes. That doesn't mean its for everyone, nor does it mean its worth what someone might pay, it just means out of all the version YBR is worth the most money. This despite missing the Monkey Mech. Delt slammed the game and falsely said the game has fewer features than the other version. Yes the game is missing the Monkey but its filled with a ton of cool extra's not found on the other versions of the game. I also pointed correctly that YBR is also by far the most reliably version with the 2.0 light board system and their most updated operating system.
I also think traditional pinball buyers need to understand there is a new buyer... they might be buying the games for the ART itself. Is there better artwork on any game than WOZ, plus its radcal. WOZ machines look amazing simply amazing, and some buyers are snatching them up for the art alone. If you're some buyer who pays 100k for some art, paying 18k for this artistic masterpiece is nothing.
Its a different pinball world today... you have the tournament players, collectors, and people who just by them as conversation pieces. I do a lot of theming projects and if you have a HIGH END basement that might have a lot of fine art, stone bars, wine cellar, or who knows what wouldn't a couple very art heavy pinballs look amazing there? There are just a lot of different buyers in the game now all looking at these for different reasons... YBR art packages is stunning and you can't buy a new one right now. I can see why a buyer would pay 18k, and I can see why a pinball player thinks that's crazy. Not worthy of downvotes and I stand by that 110%.

Quoted from RobbyIRL5:

It’s clear that some people buy these games and don’t play them (any pinball that is, otherwise how are there so many great games for sale with 200 plays). So I don’t think it’s far fetched at all for somebody to buy a game for artwork. As much as I love playing my good shooters, I bought the Hobbit for artwork (and I like the IP). Not trying to debate for the sake of debating but I definitely believe some people buy pinball for artwork.

Quoted from RobbyIRL5:

I was pleasantly surprised with Hobbit, I actually play it when I just want to bang the ball around in a low stress manner, its a very easy and relaxing game. I literally bought it because I liked the art and the content/IP. The game is absolutely gorgeous if you like gold dragons, and who doesn't like gold dragons? Agree to disagree on art. I do agree it's much harder to put games on machines when you have 12 vs 3, but at least in my experience, when I buy a game that has low plays, it takes about 30 mins to beat the existing GC score, so possible they bought it for the art? lol