When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Heres how it works.
Hype from the movie inevitably drove up the price.
It’s since happened to the X-Men Origins: Wolverine game, too.
X-Men Origins Wolverine has shot up in price after his appearance in the new Deadpool movie.
Suddenly it hit me.
What was once a fun hobby has been spoiled.
And ultimately, greed.
This game is now going for more than five times what I paid for it.
As prices go up, those in possession will naturally cash in, and prices will stay high.
It’s like a horrible crypto scam, except for something actually worth owning.
The other factor was backwards compatibility on the Xbox One, continued onto the Xbox Series X|S.
Thanos is smiling because he’s a reseller.
Buying used discs was orders of magnitude cheaper at the time than buying full priced digital copies.
Spider-Man, X-Men, Iron Man, Thor, whatever had the Marvel badge on.
Mostly games that were never really classed as “good” but that I really wanted to play.
The rest were all less than this, but some are skyrocketing in price.
Captain America: Super Soldier, for example.
Thor: God of Thunder cost me 2, and it’s now going for five times that.
Still not too bad, but it’s a significant increase.
It’s a similar story with the X-Men games, but two of them are at least still cheap.
Wolverine, well, that’s going up a lot faster.
And that’s only the Marvel games.
Even ‘common’ games like Crazy Taxi can still cost more than some new releases.
The scale might be different, but the idea is the same.
This will end up being a never-ending theme.
Game preservation doesn’t really seem to matter to any of the companies making them.
Copyright protection is valuable, but it’s also infuriating.
None of the cars featured in the original Forza Horizon, for example, are even made anymore.
Yet that game was withdrawn from sale because of licensing.
It’s happened since with other Forza Horizon games.
We’re always the ones who lose out.
The entire system is geared against us, the regular gamers.
Don’t hesitate, get it while you’re free to.
There will come a day you might regret it, else.
If you see an opportunity, take it.
