How mutch whould a Boxed Copy be worth?

[ctn2003]

   You trying to sell me yea greedy basterd~!   

 

 

For the last few months i have been thinking about the worth of the physical boxed copys of kickstarter games, Like Wastland 2 and Poe. what does GayStop Half Priced Books think about theboxed kickstarter cds, Well they take them? (not that i would give ANYthing to them) but it just cross my mind, how mutch are they worth exacly? When ive played poe for a wile im acouly planning on selling my boxed copy copy to help fund a charity (not as soon as i get it but at least within a year or 2 after ive injoyed it.) Ive seen wastland 2 boxed copys get sold less than 10 hours for 80 bucks online so whats does that say about a Poe boxed copys? or the Collecters Edition??

 

 

www.gofundme.com floaters reserch This is the charity - ^^ take a look if you wish. not 100% if you allowed to put links.

Edited February 22, 2015 by ctn2003

[vv221]

Boxed Collector Edition of Pillars of Eternity is priceless.

In the near future when the game is the reference of "good ol’ RPG", this box will be the only way to tell your grand-children: « I was there, and helped make it a reality ».

[Grotesque]

As a boxed games collector I can say that the price of a newly released game plummets in the first months and then rises back and sometimes comes to worth five/ten times more  than the original pricing if the game is groundbreaking and if it sets in the collective consciousness as a valuable game. Rarity is of course another factor.

Collector's editions are by their nature rare/limited until Blizzard destroyed that tradition with their unlimited waves of Diablo 3 CE.

 

Fallout for example never had a collector's edition but a boxed copy now is worth 150 - 200 USD. 

And if its still sealed, 300 american dollars easily.

[Osvir]

Make it a family heirloom, pass it on generation after generation. It is bound to eventually be worth millions *cough* 10'000-20'000$. Of course, you'd never see a dime of it, but one of your offsprings 500-600 years from now is probably going to be happy about it  (Saw an antique show the other day, and I think an item from the 1700's, not mint condition, was worth about 5'000$ something today).

"But it's a video game!!" doesn't matter, eventually stuff turns into the historically antique, and that's a whole different level of collector's items.

It also depends on Pillars of Eternity's success too of course. Final Fantasy VI, boxed (unopened) I saw like 10 years ago go for 800$-900$ (locked behind a glass casing). But you'd have to be willing to wait 15-20 years for that to happen.

Edited February 22, 2015 by Osvir

[Leferd]

One most certainly won't make back the atleast $500 ROI for gold level backers if the hope is to sell it off as profit.