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KungKras said:
MARCUSDJACKSON said:
support your developers and publishers. the retailers will get paid either way.

Developers that makes gams that people get tired of and sell are not worth supporting.

People get tired of all games, so I guess no developer is worth supporting right ?



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Barozi said:
KungKras said:
MARCUSDJACKSON said:
support your developers and publishers. the retailers will get paid either way.

Developers that makes gams that people get tired of and sell are not worth supporting.

People get tired of all games, so I guess no developer is worth supporting right ?

I can give you a long list of games that I haven't grown tired of despite playing them a lot, and I can give you an even longer list with games that I don't wanna sell even though I don't play them anymore.



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Oh god.. If this ever starts to become a trend, consider me done with gaming. At least modern gaming.



Khuutra said:

Presumably when you buy a game you are effectively buying into support for it for as long as your copy exists. When you trade in a used game and it's bought by someone else, developers aren't supporting two copies, they're supporting the one copy they were already paid for.

This is the part everyone seems to miss. People talk as if used games are like piracy, a single copy duplicating into the hands of many, but the reality is it's only a single copy going around to the same group of people.


@Barozi: That isn't true. Generally the top selling games are the ones people keep, an easy example being Nintendo games or online multiplayer games like CoD (the arcade type, always fun in short bursts). It's the same with movies, people don't get tired of all of them. There are some worth keeping, otherwise people wouldn't bother buying DVD's, they would rent or find a cheaper option instead.

The problem with many videogames today is they are designed to be fully enjoyable once, and then disposable afterward. Generally people play them out for many hours straight, then once they beat the game, they have no need of playing it ever again. It's no wonder these games have so much trouble with used sales, they aren't worth keeping.

If developers want money for each person that plays their game (which seems to be the direction they're going in), they better sell them for a hell of a lot less than $60. Personally I'll be boycotting any game that employs this policy, so I hope Sony doesn't carry this onto any game I care about.



Looks like Sony is in first line to follow the blind.



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c0rd said:
Khuutra said:


If developers want money for each person that plays their game (which seems to be the direction they're going in), they better sell them for a hell of a lot less than $60. Personally I'll be boycotting any game that employs this policy, so I hope Sony doesn't carry this onto any game I care about.

That's the whole problem as $60 is not worth as it once did. If you go buy groceries or buy lumber/copper at Lowes you learn just how little $60 is worth. No one wants to pay the increasing higher cost of developing games and wants game to be the same price their were 30 years ago. With publishers losing money it will not be long before investors will stopped investing money in developing games.



It could be a subtle push to get users to jump onto their DD solutions, buying through PSN in general and buying a Go in particular.



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KungKras said:
Barozi said:
KungKras said:
MARCUSDJACKSON said:
support your developers and publishers. the retailers will get paid either way.

Developers that makes gams that people get tired of and sell are not worth supporting.

People get tired of all games, so I guess no developer is worth supporting right ?

I can give you a long list of games that I haven't grown tired of despite playing them a lot, and I can give you an even longer list with games that I don't wanna sell even though I don't play them anymore.

okaaaay, but this doesn't meant that others wouldn't sell those games. So I still don't see when a developer suddenly becomes worth supporting and when not.



I never buy pre owned games so stuff like this never affects me.



Metallicube said:
Oh god.. If this ever starts to become a trend, consider me done with gaming. At least modern gaming.


agreed...