Oakland, CA
The KOD remake was 2 - 3x (possibly more) what an original cost. The equivalent to that would be if PPS was charging 25 - 40k for a remake.
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Quoted from dgpinball:Ask yourself this question, if you collected 1 of something that there were only 10 of in the world, something you were planning on selling to fund your retirement, then suddenly one day they found a 1000 of them in a vault and the value plummets, would you really be saying "gee I'm happy that 1000 other people get to have one" or be pissed that you now have to work until you die!! Exaggerated example I know, but you get the point.
What we're seeing here is called 'schadenfreude'. It was a popular term during the housing bust.
I very clearly recall friends and acquaintances who had just bought into some overpriced condo or house, beaming with pride, and very often superiority, because now they were a member of the great housing gold rush. When I told them I still rented they would look at me pityingly and explain that 'it's not too late', like I was some poor member of the underclass they could save through their sage advice.
The same dynamic was beginning to take hold with MM. I definitely saw the "it always goes up" mentality at play, the sense of sitting on guaranteed returns, and maybe just a little too much pride in ownership.
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