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Wonktonodi said:
It seems that vlad321 doesn't respond to those in this thread that make arguments why it's ok to buy used that are different from arguments that pirates can use.
I said before how the producer of a game can see how much it sells for used and then can do something about it to compete with it. Offer more on the disc, bundle the game, lower their price plus many other things. When they see what people are willing to pay for the game they can work to get those dollars. Money the see people spending, not hypothetical money that a pirate might someday decide to pay.
Without the used games the publisher would be taking all the profits without as much motivation to be offering more for it. Used games are ways for being to get more value out of what the publisher makes. That could be used for pirates as well however used games respect the right of the publisher to produce the disc and content on it. One disc one person or small group playing the game. Pirates don't respect that at all.
When I buy a copy of a used game there is one less game in circulation for other buys. A limited supply for a limited number of buyers. When someone pirates a game the number of games in circulation stays the same and if we counted the number of copies the potential is infinite. So an infinite supply for a limited demand for the game thus making it that people feel they should pay nothing.
Now try to say arguments of if almost everyone bought used vs if almost everyone pirated. If almost everyone bought used who would have the game but a select few since there has to be a used game someone is selling. So there is still incentive for people to buy new. With pirating everyone could have the game who wanted it. So where is the intensive for anyone else to buy the game.
For me moral is a standard where I expect others to do as I do. If everyone did as I do and buy a game when it's a price I find reasonable be it used or new. If we all act that way the publisher get's money and we get the games. If I found it ok to pirate the game and everyone else felt the same as me. There wouldn't be much money for publishers unless they make things that can't be pirated and even then who knows if anyone would be bothered to buy it for any price.
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I do, your arguments are the same as ironman's and a bunch of others, the replys are in my replies to them.
1. Pirates don't produce physical discs, there exists only ONE disk with piracy, no one produced a second disc. As far as the publisher sees, they got paid for 1 disc yet more than 1 person played it, whether it's piracy or used.
2. The fact that there is a limited supply of used games would be a very good argument if I didn't walk into gamestop and seen a fairly nice supply of Uncharted 2, so I doubt the used game market is supply constrained at the moment. Hate to break it to you, but the discs cost a few cents to make, there is no for publishers EVER being supply constrained in any way shape or form. Theoretically this is a great argument, in reality however it is not so.
3. Well your moral must be skewed because if you think that it's fine to buy used games but are not fine with pirating you are one horrible hypocrite.
