Analyst: GameStop's Used Games Business Gives it 'Recession Edge'

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I agree... as terrible as this is to say, I actually support pirating games more than I support buying used games from a store like gamestop (I do neither). In both cases, the people responsible for making the game get nothing; in the case of pirating, at least there are no middlemen ripping you off before you play the game

That is not to say that I don't play games that aren't new; I will borrow games from friends, loan games to friends, and heck, i'll even trade directly with friends. However, the addition of a middleman makes it a helluva lot worse, in my mind... at least since that middleman is also a huge seller of new games, which are the direct competition for used titles.

I bet the console manufacturers cannot wait till Digital Distribution takes over...