Game news He had 30 copies of the same game and couldn't take it anymore! This flea market ended in donation
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A man wanted to get rid of more than 30 copies of the same game. People didn't want a single copy, even though they were offered for free! Discover the curse of these games that no one wants.
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If many of us have sold games to buy others, or simply out of disinterest in the title, Bluesky user (alternative of) named Steve Lin made a strange discovery during a garage sale. While looking for deals, he came across a box filled to the brim with NBA 2K19.
A not-so-miraculous discovery
The flea market is an opportunity not to be missed for bargain hunters looking for treasures that were gathering dust in other people's homes. However, some batches are more like traps than anything else. Although we don't know why this man had so many NBA 2Ks in his possession, it is very likely that he is the owner of an independent video game store. The boxes were still sealed, like straight out of the factory.
One might wonder about the point of offering all these games for free, when he could have sold them in his store? The answer is simple: the curse of sports games. Indeed, their interest is quickly reduced to nothing when new opuses emerge, automatically making them obsolete, with almost zero replayability. This scourge affects all series, whether 2K, FIFA or even Madden, the new opuses being more interesting since they contain new players, teams or jerseys. If some find this commercial practice questionable, it is clear that these different titles continue to be sold by pallets.
A largely unloved game
This curse specific to sports games is undoubtedly not the only reason for this donation. Indeed, if the NBA 2K series is generally widely appreciated by players, they were clearly less enthusiastic about the 2018 title. Beyond basketball, the title has received a lot of criticism from fans, particularly because of a system that is largely Pay2Winservers plagued by cheating as well as regular technical failures.
Achieving a user score of only 2.9 points on Metacritic, the game has already sold massively in the very year of its release, flooding garage sales and second-hand bins of specialist shops. The question then arises: what to do with these copies that no one wants anymore? Steve Lin said he took one of the copies home as a souvenir. And you, would you have taken the other 29?