Not sure why a company such as Bethesda is doing this but if this is true then that's really lame of them.  Customers have already purchased your product, you already got your money, so they can do whatever they want with it.  Don't be greedy.

Thoughts?

https://www.polygon.com/2018/8/11/17661254/bethesda-sell-used-games-amazon-block

(lock if already posted)

They can block individual used game sales all they want, but there is no way to block used sales in general as long as physical editions exist.

This stinks and I guess it will backfire, they just need to piss the wrong person off.

Did you read the article?

The law says that you may resell a product so long it's not significantly altered from the original product. Bethesda is arguing that the lack of guarantee is significant enough to not be protected under the First Sale Doctrine. If they would win that case it would basically kill the whole used game market in the US in one swoop. And not just them, but also resellers (the like you see on the Amazon Marketplace, for instance), as they are arguing against them as well with the same argument.

Used game sales cut into profits, yet I agree that I should be able to sell my used games at will. Bethesda probably figures that they are big enough and have enough great selling franchises that a move like this won't affect their overall sales. Microsoft once thought they could get away with something similar for their xbox brand. Their original plan was for the xbox one lock out used games, that along with other anti consumer policies backfired big time. 

The more I hear about Bethesda, the worse the company sounds. I dislike Bethesda more and more.

And yet ES 6 will still sell bucket loads.

This. They know it too. They have been repackaging Skyrim for the last 7 years with minimal enhancements and it still sells . I admit I have been one of the culprits as I have bought 3 versions of the game already.

He should have fought the lawsuit. A warranty is not a material, or a part of the product itself, and thus his game is not materially different from a genuine product. So whether they mean the legal definition of materially different, or the laymen's definition they lose. Secondly, he could simply offer his own warranty to whoever he sells it to, and their argument would further have holes poked in it.

What's really interesting here is that there's almost immediate outcry for this sort of thing, when it comes to physical, but when Steam, and other various forms of DRM stop you from being able to resell your digital games, nobody bats an eye.

I still think makes it impossible to stop