Should buyers of pre-owned titles be punished?

[vlad321]

Fumanchu said:

vlad321 said:

Fumanchu said:

vlad321 said:

Fumanchu said:
vlad stop trying to justify being a pirate. I really do hope that you appreciate the 'ignorant saps' you rely on to support your hobby for you.

Please stop supporting cut-throat practices and businesses and not support change in business models in line with modern technology.

Of course, you're liberating gamers with your piracy.  Please offer up your supposed business model that saves us of all these problems - developers to make more game related t-shirts? They obviously can't seem to get their games good enough for you to pay for.  What are the vlad game requirements to get you to fork over $60? Even if new games were released at $40, you would still be complaining because you're now used to getting everything for free. 

If I pay $50 for Starcraft 2. What makes people whink they can sell their games at the same price point? I'd pay for most games if they were at $30.

Also before you start, over the past 2 years, since the end of 2007, I have bought about 110 games, give or tanke a few. I have a very good feeling I have supported the industry far far more than you have. Or am I wrong here?

I don't see how that excuses you to pirate games that you personally perceive to be of lesser quality. You could easily flip that around too - what makes you think you have the right to download those games free of charge? So your business model to combat piracy is to have every game released at half price that isn't Starcraft 2? Good luck with that.   

Actually the business model would be to make all games of Starcraft 2 quality. In fact the current model does work, it's shown that music pirates buy more music and are a greater contributor to the music industry than non-pirates. Now imagine if it was legal too. I also have the feeling I am far more supportive of the gaming industry than you are, and I'm a pirate.