Regardless of what you believe, this is a gemr issue. With Gamestop, Bestbuy or any other retailer in their program as your ONLY avenue for trading in your games, they can give you whatever they want and now you are unable to go searching for different avenues in order to maximize on your return.

So if they all decide, you only get $2 for a trade-in, guess what? That is all you get.

How could you possibly sit here and try to tell people that this onyl effects the retailers? This is obviously a shitty deal for gamers and gamers alone.

Pffft. Whatever, iOS boy. You don't even play games that cost money, so you don't get to talk about inflation.

At that point you are subjected to pay whatever MS wants you to pay for those no longer retail available titles.

Just go buy some lube dude, the ramming is going to be rough.

This is awful. It's like you don't even own the games any more if you can't lend them to friends or sell them to whomever you want.

Not to mention this system will probably alienate many countries that don't have these major retailers.

If that's an issue for you, then your best bet would be to simply not buy a console that relies on cloud computing.

The DRM stuff, they can eventually remove that if they want via updates.

I am sorry.

I can't name the amount of times I opened the cases on the shelves at Gamestop and took pictures of the codes inside. :/

Great....so I can go pay Gamestop $30 for a used game that's been out 7 years.

One of my all time favorite games, perhaps 2, Dragon Force (Saturn) and Lunar SSSC + Lunar EB, I bought and sold those games on ebay so many times over the years, if I could not do that, it would be a travesty when your copy broke, was lost or something, imagine all those classics, and as they become classic, they may cost more

I can't believe there are people actually defending this awful decision made by Microsoft when it's not hurting anyone but the gamers. It's not like when you sell your car or a DVD you have to pay to the "publisher" a fee, why should the gaming industry be different, just because some company wants to make profit where they don't have the right to?

Well, I must say I actually expected this, since "gamers" seem to like being ripped off by that DLC crap, online passes and the price increase last gen had, blocking used games is probably nothing to them. I just hope that the majority of consumers, the guys who don't come to gaming forums, are smarter than some of the people here and realize how anti-customer this decision is.

Whoever suggested in this thread that retail would get 10% of the final transaction is out of his mind.

Retail will get between 30% and 50% , if it's anything less no retail outlet will support this...
That's just the way retail works...... You can't run a business on 10%

It just keep amazing me how few people understand how retail works..............