Does buying used hurt developers?

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loves2splooge said:

I've seen quite a lot of gamers who kiss up to the developers "oh poor developers, they aren't making enough money! Yes please, take more from our wallet! Stop buying from the resale market! Stop renting games! Stop waiting for the bargain bin! That's an insult to the hardwork of these developers" (yes I've heard the anti-bargain bin one before) Apologists like that are suckers. I am a consumer participating in capitalist society, not a social worker. You think Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, EA, etc. all became successful corporations by being suckers? No, they achieved success by being ruthless. Game companies feel that they have the right to do whatever in their power to nickel and dime you as much as possible (raising the price to $60, DLC abuse, rehashes like SSFIV, yearly editions of sports games, Guitar Hero, etc. with not much in the way of differences. Now you have companies like Bioware requiring that those with a used copy of ME2 PAY just for the privilege of being able to buy DLC. lol.) You think I have sympathy for them when they pull stunts like that? I took full advantage of the resale market (I only have a couple used current gen games but I bought a lot of brand new sealed copies off people) and I'm doing the gamefly thing now. If game devs don't like that, too bad, so sad. There's no way that the government would be crazy enough to make selling and renting games illegal. You don't see Ford whining about people buying their cars second hand. Ford already got their cut from the first sale. Same goes for the software developers. Why should they be given special rules?

In an era where publishers are like "noo wait, don't ship out the game with full content at $60. Give then an incomplete game and then nickel and dime them for the rest on XBL/PSN marketplace", why should any gamer care so much about having their back?

You make a valid point but the reason the developers are doing the whole DLC thing is so YOU WONT TRADE in your game. If they release DLC a few  months later you wont play it and trade it in withine the first week. you will keep the game to play the upcoming DLC.  Its a viscious game.  I see both sides but try to buy new games whenever possible especially when the used are only $5.00 cheaper