@ makingmusic. All good points. The problem is how big Gamestop has gotten.

There are two sides to the argument though. Sometimes I'll buy a game used that I wouldn't have bought at full price. Example: Mercury Meltdown I couldn't pass up for $5. It's not that I wait for a game to come down to buy it, but sometimes I'll see the game after it has dropped in price and pick it up.

Basically what I'm saying is that I personally wouldn't have bought a game at all that I would buy used, but in the end, I do agree 100% with you that the entire "I'll buy the game when it drops in price" attitude does stink.

Well, even if you wait for a price drop, so long as the game is bought new (whether it be Greatest Hits or whatever) the publisher still gets a cut.

And I agree with you about buying some games used that you otherwise wouldn't have bought at all.  I got a copy of Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup for a few bucks awhile back just for the hell of it.  I basically threw money away with that one, though.  =x

And yes, the problem is GameStop.  But between publishers fighting used sales and digital distribution getting bigger and bigger, GameStop will soon be going the way of Blockbuster after Netflix appeared.

How is Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup?

Is it at least entertaining?  LOL 

I enjoyed the Harry Potter theme during the credits.  That's about it.  =/

It really is a crappy game.   The gameplay is completely broken.  They don't let you move along the Y-axis in a game centered around flying!  I'm not even going to talk about the crappy modes, horrible graphics, etc.

It sucks though.  Quidditch is actually a pretty cool sport, and I could see somebody making a really good game out of it.  It'll never happen though.

I can understand the displeasure the gaming industry has with GameStop. Fair enough.

But with EA implementing their Online Pass and THQ having their own sort of online pass, they are not only hurting GameStop but they are hurting online stores (eBay, Amazon and many other smaller retailers), Gamefly (and all the Gamefly clones), Blockbuster (and all the other rental video stores), Best Buy (they sell used games too), etc. And most importantly they are hurting the gamers. Even if you don't buy used games ever, chances are a good number of you have sold some of your videogames. And a number of gamers also rent too. Everyone who buys or sells used games or rents is going to be affected by the precedent being set by EA and THQ.

Even if you don't play sports games online, just you wait. It's only a matter of time before Ubisoft (Ubisoft already said that they are looking into doing this), Activision, Take Two, Square-Enix, Capcom, etc. follow suit. It could become an industry standard.

At the end of the day consumers have every right to look out for their own interests so as long as they are using legal means to do so. At the end of the day, gamers have budgets (even if they are not set in stone, most of us know that it's important to prioritize what you spend and to save some of your money. So we have some sort of budget). And by implementing these online pass policies, gamers will be getting less for their money. These online passes are effectively a price hike for every gamer that buys or sells used games or rents. Don't gamers have the right to voice their opposition to price hikes and getting less for their money? Not saying that game companies shouldn't be allowed to do what they are doing. But there's nothing wrong with gamers voicing their displeasure over their policies. Just like how just about everyone voices their displeasure with cable TV subscription prices going up all the time.

"Bad" is an understatement. You are Lucifer in the flesh.

I agree, they do this for living and just like we get paid for the work that we do so should they...but yeah your evil

Yeah you're a bad person.

It's legal, so there's no problem there.

If we look at it from developers perspective each used copy sold raises the price of used copies which means they can keep the price of new copies high and continue to ship new copies as well at fulll price. Not good still but it's not as bad as piracy.

Not only that but if people knew from the start they couldn't sell used games they may not have bought it in the first place causing lower sales.  In fact in Japan the market might collapse if they couldn't sell their games.  Rentals serve a similar purpose, if rentals and used game sales were both gone sales would go down significantly especially for new IPs and single player games. 

your not a bad person at all. theres nothing wrong with buying a used game. so what if they dont get any money for it. they could do what publishers are starting to do which is give more content to new copies.