Forget Oasis tickets, this season’s actual gold-dust merchandise simply dropped. It’s, uh, Concord. Yes, the doomed hero shooter from Firewalk Studios that Sony is unceremoniously yanking the plug on tomorrow.
News of the sport’s imminent demise has been blood within the water to scalpers, who’ve begun to flood public sale websites like eBay with ludicrously costly PS5 copies of the $40 recreation. How costly? Well, who fancies forking over $25,000 for a disc? No? Can I tempt you with $950? How about $500?
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Now, I do know what you are considering: These are simply chancers attempting their luck. No one’s really shopping for copies of this factor at these absurdly inflated costs. You’re sort of proper. Sure, no person is selecting up Concord for $25K (but), however a short look at eBay’s offered listings reveals somebody is paying an excessive amount of.
For occasion, at the very least one rube has forked over $150 for a replica of the sport, absolutely 375% of the sport’s unique value. It’s simple to search out different offered listings of the sport at $140, $130, and actually simply all over the place round and north of $100. It’s not a number of thousand {dollars}, but it surely’s nonetheless an excessive amount of to pay, when you ask me, particularly for a recreation that may very well be going the best way of the dodo.
It’s taking place right here in Blighty, too. UK eBay incorporates listings for the sport at anyplace from £100 to £10,000 (by way of TheGamer), although that latter itemizing additionally has a poop emoji within the title, main me to query its seriousness. “PULLED FROM SHELVES, RARE,” scream the listings, hoping to tempt punters into dropping an considerable portion of their paycheques.
Were I to hazard a guess at consumers’ motivations, I’d in all probability say it is not an awesome love of Concord that is driving them to select the sport up in its twilight hours. Most of the expensive listings brag that the ware is in its unique shrink-wrap and “in-hand”: eBay-speak for items that the vendor really has of their possession, somewhat than squirrelled away at some dropshipping warehouse. I’d wager the gross sales are mixture of scalpers ginning up faux gross sales to push up the value and other people shopping for copies within the hope that they will sooner or later turn into like a mint-condition Super Mario Bros cart, value 1000’s—dare I say tens of millions—of {dollars}.
Which, to be clear, is not going to occur. I haven’t got any particular perception, and maybe 20 years from now, once we’re dominated over by a caste of robber-barons who acquired wealthy off hoarded copies of a lifeless hero shooter, I’ll have some severe egg on my face. Nevertheless, I really feel moderately assured saying anybody spending three or extra digits on a replica of Concord will remorse it.
