It can be for both reasons you know. Liking something enough can lead to wanting more of it. Isn't that just logic?
But generalising that 'people' have said or whatnot is not a reflection of a majority
Ok, so they're not "people," but "usernames."
...I never said it was a majority of people who will stop collecting because toy companies flood their market with duplicate figures in different colors or different versions. What I said was:
Eventually they will release more and more colors. Then eventually more and more collectors will give up trying to get them all.
It just shows how you feel about collecting these really. So what?
It doesn't show anything about how I feel about them. But since you asked, I have no interest in collecting them, because I don't actively collect anything, really. However, I have been very involved in toy communities for over a decade, seeing how overproducing or underproducing an item impacts the market. I have bought and sold thousands of dollars of toys and made quite a bit of money in my spare time as a hobby. That's why I shared the example of GI Joes, a market I am very familiar with, to show what happened with the Snake Eyes figures. They made 62 versions of the same damn figure, and 59 of those were AFTER the 1980s. For nostalgic toy collectors who collected both vintage and new, this caused burnout and many GI Joe collectors reverted back to collecting only vintage and giving up on new GI Joes.
While the OMFG market is a grain of sand compared to the GI Joe market, the same thing will happen. Even though there are only 200 of each OMFG version produced, and even if there are probably only a few hundred (at most) people who collect OMFG, people will get burned out trying to get every color and every version. That's why some will just give up.
What makes OMFG worse than even big companies like Hasbro flooding the GI Joe market with 62 versions of the same figure is two things:
1. OMFG has been around less than 2 years. Yet, they've already released more than a dozen of the same figure in different colors. They're flooding the market faster than even Hasbro did.
2. OMFG is also worse than Hasbro because they are making those color variations far too exclusive. There simply are not enough of each color to satisfy every person who collects them. So the other reason for burnout is if 200 of a color is made but there are 300 OMFG collectors, 1/3rd of them won't be able to complete their set. So, many of them will burn out and just say F it. And stop collecting. (or stop trying for one of everything).
*that 300 figure is an estimate, because there are probably even fewer OMFG collectors than that.
Edited by ComradeCuttlefish, 16 November 2012 - 08:39 AM.