| TheGoldenBoy said: It's stealing. |
Simple as that really.
Theft is theft. I don't know how people can think one form of theft is OK because you're doing it to a big corporation who can handle the loss, but other forms are not OK because it affects a smaller business that can't absorb the loss. But some industry people have made piracy sound less bad because they equate used game sales with piracy, or consider it to be as big an evil as piracy. So in some people's minds if some outspoken people in the industry say used game sales are as morally bad as piracy, then since used game sales is a completely legal and legit thing, it means piracy ain't so bad after all.
Used game sales is part of the industry money-go-round, eventually most of the money from used game sales gets funnelled into new game purchases. Piracy is completely black market, any benefit to a legit player in the industry (the devloper) is very much indirect, and very hit and miss.
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