Amount of merchandise means absolutely nothing as to how much you like something, only how much mnoey you're willing to spend on it. Things that notify you more as a fan are things like fan-art, fan-writing, how much you care for the story and characters and that sort of thing. I, for example, love Halo also much more than many other supposed 'fans' as far as I can tell,, and know far more about it, yet all I have a couple of the books and figures. All I have of Oddworld are the first two games and the Art Book, yet I reckon I know and care a good deal more about Oddworld than a number of people e.g. people who think Oddwiki is accurate. I don't even have Stranger's Wrath or Munch yet know and care about the characters within just the same.
Rather an ironic point from you, considering part of Oddworld is critcism our materialistic and consumer driven society, and you with lots of merchandise saying how great it is :P Merchandise of something like this is always nice to have, regardless. But how much money you've spent or are able to spend isn't really a fair point. If you are incredibly rich and have a passing interest, you might not like something as much as a lower class citizen does but are still likely to have more stuff related to it due to being spoilt or w/e and having more spare to spend/waste.
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