Yeah ok that's your opinion man.
Call it what you will but it's an extremely small and petty damn thing to want to buy games sealed. It's the reason why forum like Nintendo Age is such a shitty cesspool.
I go to great extremes for the purest thrills. I will send big money to have my ORIGINAL games in their ORIGINAL form...packaged.
Then you have a serious problem if buying videogame software you'll never open up to play and enjoy.
Who are you trying to impress with this? Yourself or some people you'll most likely never meet in real life?
Say what you will about "playing your games", the true spirit of a game collector knows this...the sweetest fruit is the purest fruit, and in this modern age, unopened is the purest.
And yet with that analogy, It's also never really enjoyed for what it is and eventually that fruit like this hobby will go rotten and unwanted never to be enjoyed for what it is.
See? I can do shitty analogies also.
It's really sad how this is going to be thrown away...all for what...
EDIT: It is a big deal
All to be used for what the people who spent hours of their time making that game for.
To be enjoyed simply because it's a form of entertainment, That's all.
You're probably right tho that it's a big deal to some people who can't find it in themselves to enjoy this hobby for what it originally was which was the enjoyment of videogames and not buying up shit to look at it on a shelf to never be touched because you want to feel some sort of gratification of owning something nobody else has ever enjoyed.
It's a pretty sad choice of a thing to do when you think about it years from now when your eyesight is gone, your joints hurt, and your life is reaching it's end and you realize,
*Which you finally will you can bet.*, that you bought a shitload of solid state media you never really cared to own in the 1st place other than it was covered in factory plastic wrap.
You really need to reevaluate your reasons for being in this hobby.