| numonex said: EB Games/Game Stop and many other game stores make most of their profits from their shonky second hand trades. Game developers and publishers receive no money from the second hand game trade. Second hand game trades hurts developers as much as software piracy. In both cases developers and publishers receive no money from the second hand games sale or downloaded game. Game stores not only rip off consumers with terrible pricing in their favour, they rip the game industry off as a whole. Renting and lending games to a smaller extent hurt the game developers and publishers. Fewer customers purchase the games by second hand purchase, pirate game, rental or borrowing a game from a friend. Bear in mind the cost of developing video games these days is sky rocketing, costing as much as $100 million for some game developments. End of rant/ |
Thing is, most game retailers like GameStop basically live off used games, since it's their biggest source of income.
And honestly, I have no sympathy for behemoth gamehouses who end up splurging tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars into a single game, and then expect us to actually buy them with an insance price tag, like 75€, often without any chance of trying the game beforehand, ie. thru demo versions.
I live on a pretty strict budget, so I can only buy a scant few full-priced games a year - thus, used games and the occasional sale are basically the best way for me to buy legal copies of games (excluding indie and freeware games), since piracy really isn't my thing.
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