Movies, books, music.

If you have a quality Half Priced Books, Hastings, or Blockbuster in your neck of the woods, you can find newly released products of all types "first week" used.

The thing a lot of people who argue against used games forget is that a ton of the people accounting for day one or week one new purchases, do so with credit from used games. You think EA cares that someone traded in a couplr of their old games for a new copy of Madden? No, because they get paid the same amount from Gamestop for that new copy whether it was purchased with real money or store credit. While you're arguing that other industries don't have the same turnaround or used showing that games do, don't neglect the fact that other entertainment products like books and movies and music cost a heck of a lot less. If I am buying a $10 CD or a $9 book new and don't like it, why would I waste time going and trading it in for maybe $3-4 each? Meanwhile now that I have platinum'd Bioshock Infinite, I can still get $40 in store credit for it. That's a huge difference.

Also ignored is the fact that rentals and loaning/borrowing games is eliminated with a used game ban. Why should we not be able to try something out before we buy? You're honestly FOR a system where a game can have no demo, release into the market, and the only way gamers can see if they like it is to put down $60+ for it?

Consumers don't only lose there. What is the guarantee that once the retail market is all that's left, prices will remain competitive? Someone has already shown you the massive difference between prices on a digital market with no competition where a game from 2011 is still selling for $60, and you replied with a link to a retail market that includes new and used and the difference was 50%. You expect publishers who have shown no budge here in the digital world to suddenly give customers great deals?

Every time this topic comes up, I see consumers arguing against their own interests, in favor of blocking used games.

*COUGH*--

I call that getting swindled and pimped, (SHEEEEEEEIIIIIITTT),
I call that getting tricked by a biiizzzness

Wish there was just a way to screw over Gamestop instead of the consumer.

and for someone to buy the game used someone had to buy in new in the first place. if people are uring around and selling it after 2 hours maybe the developer should make a games someone wants to hold onto for longer than 2 hours.

Some do it with a good online others by adding DLC. You mention fair to the developer how about fair to the consumer. Is it fair that a game you will keep forever and relpay many times cost the same as a game you beat in 2 hours? or 10?

The people who make the games know they are making them in a system where there is a used market. If they don't really like it they can go digital only and see how their sales go. Whining about they system they are in is just blaming others for their own poor business model or product.

Used games market is necessary to fund an important share of buyers and make them buy new games. The only factor fucking it all up is GameStop, paying them too little to previous owners and doing everything thet can to sell them just cheap enough to "steal" a new game sale, this way old owners are funded less to buy new games, new owners are squeezed more and almost all the money goes to GameStop, basically GameStop is exploiting the market, taking the lion's share of the it and screwing both gamers and publishers/developers.

There are all kinds of used cars that are less than a year old being sold on the same lot as the exact same car of the same model year...you must not car shop much.

So, your problem is that a used game is sold next to a new game at Game Stop.  You believe that these are only 24 hours old at that.  I doubt that many of Game Stops sales are from used game that are less than 24 hours old.  Besides, GS typically only gives a $3-$5 discount on recently released games.  Most people I know would rather buy the new one than save $3-$5 on a used one anyway.  Besides, the person that traded that 24 hour old game in at Game Stop most likely used his credit to purchase another new game, again giving the publisher another sale.  You can argue with me on this all day long, but I've been buying games since before you were born (based on your Avatar).  Your not getting the point that most of the money people get from selling/trading in their used games is used to buy more new games.  Those sales of new games would not exist without the money from the sale/trade of the used games.

That's because American companies as a whole are among the greediest in the world.  CEO's of American companies are far more worried about what their shareholders think than what their employees or customers think.

A ban in the US on used game sales would hurt the video game industry far more than allowing the used sales in the first place.  I and most of the people I know would buy far fewer new games.  There are also a lot of people in this country that make a living from used game sales in one way or another....be it a Game Stop employee or a stay at home mom that sells used games on eBay.  Let's burden our country with tens of thousands of jobs lost to the ban only to make companies and their shareholders even richer.  Sounds stupid to me.