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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scurvy_Platypus" data-source="post: 5392354" data-attributes="member: 43283">To a certain extent, perhaps. Probably more _now_ than it used to be.However, the secondary market throws a big spanner into the works. For example, a fair chunk of my books came from scrounging deals on EBay and other stuff like that. So while the book value is a decent amount for my collection, the actual dollars paid is significantly less. And the rpg companies don't see a dime of the secondary market sales, so some stuff has been passed around a few times.Digital distribution of product is changing (to an extent) the nature of the collectors as well. While some people truly embrace the digital (I don't buy physical product anymore, instead I used my Ipad), a larger percentage of the digital population is just cheap; they buy pdfs because it's cheaper but have a variety of reasons for why they turn around and print out the product themselves.So where you'd have collectors previously that were more about the "I believe in supporting this game line because I love it so much" or they desire to have a "complete collection", collectors these days appear to either have been collecting for a decent chunk of time and that's how they've built up their collection, or the collecting of rpgs is itself part of (or a replacement for) their rpg hobby. They've either got money to burn so they collect, or they collect because they used to play/GM a bunch but with where they are now in life, playing rpgs just isn't possible. So their collection allows them to still feel connected to the hobby regardless of whether they get to play/GM or not.</blockquote>

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