Everybody is familiar with the Collect Them All concept. It is a concept that has been exploited to death by immoral merchants. You may only want 8 of the 12 items in a set, all of a sudden the collect-them-all moment kicked in and you found yourself the proud owner of the 4 remaining items that you don't even find remotely appealing. The most evil of all? The ones where you don't know which one of the set you are buying, and usually most of the items in a set are the common ones, then 1 or 2 of them being the rare ones so you can potentially possess at least 50 if not more of the common ones before you can, hopefully, if at all, complete the set.
What I don't understand is: how did this collect-them-all mentality came about? What kind of evolutionary advantage are there in collecting them all? Perhaps it's vital to survival to collect enough food for the winter, or collect the proper tools for future usage, but to collect "one of each kind"?? Anyone care to venture any explanation to this inexplicable phenomenon?
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