Sorry to come across all capitalist.
The lens I was viewing it through is one where speculative hobby/entertainment expenditure does not go into the $10k zone.
Sure I know people who spend big money on their hobbies like a jet ski, motoX bike, even miniatures - but they have an asset so to speak - something to show for their money.
I understand that people do have big coin (ILiveYourDreams will be along soon to tell us about it), but I just find the connection between someone who has that much money that they don't care about throwing away $10k and computer gaming to be tenuous. Most of the people I know who have that much wealth, spend it on more mainstream gambling vices and other (ahem) services.
My perspective is that even if you resurrected a franchise that I loved enormously as a kid, that I would be happy to put $100-$200 towards it, but not any more, and it has nothing to do with not being able to afford it.
I guess we all have different value trade-offs on what we measure as utility.
Anyway back into my capitalist bunker to count my coins.
Scrooge McDuck signing off.
Exactly Scrooge. I see my legend lives on (too many other things than posting here to do atm).
A bottle of wine at anything less than $1k/bottle is peanuts to one of my best friends. And those don't even have replayability. He doesn't even need to think about it.
You know what a small Hirst goes for (four swatches of color with a butterfly glued to each)? $155k.
Besides, Fargo isn't hurting for cash, and he never has been since he sold Interplay. You don't have his value system because you never sold anything at more than a swap meet.