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It's funny. I keep everything because I'm a bit of a collector, but of the 3 games I dumped onto the secondary market in the last decade, 2 of them have been Bethesda developed games, because they were both unplayable pieces of shit.



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Awesome. Cant wait for the day used games completely disappear off this planet.

Last edited by flashfire926 - on 11 August 2018

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Since when has a warrenty been part of the initial game sale? I know certain 3rd party outlets offer them, but that has nothing to do with new game sales in general. It just does not make any sense.



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There is a much easier solution Bethesda, stop selling your games on physical media.
Oh wait you will lose a shitload of sales, why do you think that is Bethesda.
Because people like to own games and that goes with the freedom of selling the game after you completed it.



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Shiken said:
Since when has a warrenty been part of the initial game sale? I know certain 3rd party outlets offer them, but that has nothing to do with new game sales in general. It just does not make any sense.

And why would warrenty included in the part of an initial game sale and why not for any other product. Anyway hopefully this will cost Bugthesda a lot of sales. 



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V-r0cK said:

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

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Well, no, there are things they can't do.  For example, they cannot advertise a used product as new when selling it to consumers.  That's what at least part of this seems to be about.  I'm wondering if it has to do with the advanced state of piracy now where people can make a used or illegally downloaded game or movie look brand new.  When I managed a video store, people would bring in DVDs in cases that looked completely genuine for movies that hadn't even been released yet.

The main point seems to be that a game not sold by an authorized reseller does not have a full warranty, thus rendering it substantially different than a 'new' copy.  If that's the case then I would agree that the "new" tag should be removed.



Qwark said:
Shiken said:
Since when has a warrenty been part of the initial game sale? I know certain 3rd party outlets offer them, but that has nothing to do with new game sales in general. It just does not make any sense.

And why would warrenty included in the part of an initial game sale and why not for any other product. Anyway hopefully this will cost Bugthesda a lot of sales. 

I'm not sure what you're saying.  A lot of products have a limited warranty that's only offered to the original buyer.



flashfire926 said:

Awesome. Cant wait for the day used games completely disappear off this planet.

I know right, can't wait for the day that a game that is rare and out of print is only available at £60 10 years after release on download only. The greatness of it, all power to the greedy.



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The Fury said:
flashfire926 said:

Awesome. Cant wait for the day used games completely disappear off this planet.

I know right, can't wait for the day that a game that is rare and out of print is only available at £60 10 years after release on download only. The greatness of it, all power to the greedy.

What makes you think games will stay at $60 ten years after release? Do you mean to imply that digital games don't have sales and price drops?



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The Switch will outsell 3DS (based on VGchartz numbers), according to me, while Intrinsic thinks the opposite will hold true. One month avatar control for the loser's avatar.

flashfire926 said:
The Fury said:

I know right, can't wait for the day that a game that is rare and out of print is only available at £60 10 years after release on download only. The greatness of it, all power to the greedy.

What makes you think games will stay at $60 ten years after release? Do you mean to imply that digital games don't have sales and price drops?

The used games market is what forces companies to offer those price drops. They know they can't possibly offer those ancient games for full price when used copies are floating around for half that. So if you get rid of used game sales, then you can say goodbye to digital sales as well.