Should buyers of pre-owned titles be punished?

[vlad321]

Doobie_wop said:

vlad321 said:

Fumanchu said:
That's ridiculous - so let me get this straight you want to form a quality watchdog regulator that consists of just you on the panel (who's opinion reigns supreme) to ensure that all games match the same quality of Starcraft 2 according to you, and all other games are what? Thrown into oblivion??

I don't know what irrefutable evidence there is to show that all music pirates contribute more to the music industry than legitimate purchasers.

I have no idea how many games I've purchased over the past 2 years suffice to say it's more than just a few. I do know that all the games I've bought have been new releases from retail though.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/apr/21/study-finds-pirates-buy-more-music

It's very irrefutable. Also I'm fairly sure developers know if their own game is of Starcraft 2 quality or not.

That article had a lot of maybe's and could be's and just one researcher's view on a topic only relating to 2000 people. Maybe they should have compared the amount of song's illegaly downloaded to the amount they bought? For the 1 album they downloaded legally, they could have 10 they downloaded illegaly.

Just to add, you may think Starcraft is a quality game, but I don't, people will agree and disagree with me, but it also means that your view of quality is based on your opinion. I could think a game is fantastic and you could think it suck's, which ever one of us is right is impossible to prove, because it's all an opinion.

Here you go:

http://torrentfreak.com/pirates-are-the-music-industrys-most-valuable-customers-100122/

Note it's the IFPI, so I'm sure they did everything in their power to make pirates look worse, not better. You are also assuming that 1 download = 1 lost sale. SPin it whichever way you want, the pirates contribute more to the music industry than the non-pirates.

Also I'm sorry but you can always tell if a game is of SC2 quality or not. I'm not a fan of TF2 but I can sure as hell see that it's well worth $50 dollars (it's actually $30 when it came out, by itself). Meanwhile MW was $60 for barely any improvements, I'm sorry if TF2 was $30 then MW2 should have been just $20 or $15, simple as that.