The designer of Yedo pm’d me when i gave the game a bad rating. It was a bit peculiar. Mainly because it was the first time a designer PM’d me for it.
I didnt see it as a bad thing. I did told him that it’s not my sort of game.
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And $27,000 of it is that one promo card… 
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To put @pillbox in perspective that’s 150 copies of roads and boats at current eBay prices.
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Quite telling that your 6 month trend is more than my entire collection.
My numbers are skewed up by having PnP games valued at new game rates.
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The whole evaluation is wonky f.e. It does not take into account that I have German versions of games that are usually worth less than English ones. Or that I only have the upgrade pack for Zombicide 2 not the dull (who am I to disagree with autocorrect) game. It doesn’t know I have the all in version of Eldervale etc.
As usual: don’t believe any statistics unless you made them up them yourself (Glaube keiner Statistik, die du nicht selbst gefälscht hast)
My collection is valued at around 9.000 by the tool. I think that is off by a bit.
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I don’t log on BGG any expansions (including CCG and LCG packs) or legacy games. So my estimate is going to be way off! 
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So next to the designer list, there is one stat that bothers me a lot. Yes, my collection growth recently is easily seen here and that is somewhat embarrassing. However, this also makes it look like it is all just cult of the new when the tool just takes into account the publishing year of whatever edition I have.
Examples:
- 6 nimmt! is a 90s game even in the 25 year edition.
- Hansa Teutonica is a rerelease that has withstood time
- Brass Birmingham is a much delayed localization and in turn just a rework of a much older game
- Castles of Burgundy is a bigbox rerelease
- Obsession is a second printing of a game released years earlier
Etc.
Then I looked at the years that are so seemingly empty in my collection and checked with BGG what was released in those years. (My search criteria were: no train or war games, year, at least 500 ratings and an average rating of 6)
And it just shows that there are very small numbers of games that withstood the test of time and many of those have newer versions, editions or sequels and would not show up in a collection created a bit later than original release.
Edit: Staring at the screenshot thereis a button that allows me to switch to first published. It took me rereading my post to see that. It makes the problem a little smaller
now it is just 3 and not 17 games that I would say are older in 2020. still something is wrong with 2002
Edit 2: 2002 is famous for Puerto Rico, Bang!, Mexica and my personal favorite from that year Goldland. It was the year I was finishing my degree and I was out of time, space and money for games.
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What is your 2002 game? Just out of curiosity?
I like the notion of a game being ‘published’ in 2200BC
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By version:
By first published:
These shouldn’t be much of a surprise. 2014 and 2015 are great years in my estimation and I think game design has been on an upwards trajectory since
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Magical Athlete 
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By first published
By version
Picks up on @yashima’s issue. El Grande should be 1997! Not 2007 or 2006.
Skews newer than I thought.
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Cosmic Encounter should be 1977, and Roborally 1994. Games I played a lot as a kid.
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My 2 main periods of lots of board games were 2004-2010 and 2014 onwards. Although people like to pretend the cult of the new is a problem with modernity I think the average quality of games has improved without shifting how good the best are or how bad the worst games are. As a result I’m not wildly surprised there’s a skew towards the more modern. Additionally there’s been less time for some of these games to have had their flaws become more of a problem than their positives are worth the game for.
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If I want to play Power Grid I can still buy a copy of it. So if someone comes along with a game that’s a bit like Power Grid it needs to be significantly better in the perception of the audience to be a success.
(Film and music have similar problems. I can listen to the Beatles or Queen or King Crimson or Chuck Berry, so if you’re going to do music in that style you have to be pretty darn good.)
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