Alby_da_Wolf on 06 July 2012
| IvorEvilen said: This is terrible news... A used digital license is as good as new and this will only result in the prices of new games to skyrocket. Companies are going to make money somehow, and if they are going to end up selling less copies, they have to drive the price up to readjust to match supply and demand. This will inevitably destroy smaller companies. |
No. If they survived with higher costs and higher piracy rates when they sold only or almost exclusively on physical support, they won't be damaged by this. Anyhow, as transferring the rights of a DRM protected digital license will require the publisher's active support, the EU could protect their interests too establishing a fair fee for doing it. These two measures put together could even finally give to the publishers what up until now was taken by GameStop on second-hand physical copies market.
Finally, historically a market with truely more freedom favours outsiders more than market leaders.
