Does buying used hurt developers?

[Raze]

Khuutra said:

Raze said:
The ultimate "F**K YOU" is going to be coming before long, when gaming switches to a digital distribution format outright. There will be nothing to sell back at that point. So, deal with bargain bins and used games while they still exist, that era is coming to an end soon. If not next gen, definitely the one following that.

I don't think so

People will still like to deal in physical media.

If they abandon physical media.... well, if people think there's a piracy problem now, they're about to get a surprise

It doesn't matter what people want. Companies tell people what they want. That is what advertising is about afterall. If companies only offer digital distribution methods, then gamers will have to simply accept that or stop gaming. Disc based piracy is a lot harder to track than digital distro's actually, because anyone can burn a CD, but an encrypted ip-linked authorization key would take a whole higher level of hacker to get through.