EA's Strategy to Counter Used Games Sales

[Galaki]

Kasz216 said:

The ironic part is I'm arguing purely from the economical models standpoint that any economist would tell you about video games because I personally don't care about resale value... and protecting users rights... even when the rights are ones I'm pretty much never going to be effected by.

I never actually resell games.

Nor do i particularly buy games used that i have a great interest in. The games I'm interested in I buy new. I reserve used games for the "token" games that update niches i feel i need. Like college basketball games that I can get for like 5 dollars... because I don't care about the characters whose real names can't even be used.

Unlike most people in this thread i'm not trying to defend a favored developer or hate on a hated publisher.

I, too, buy only new games and keep all of them, even if I only play once.

I just don't condone them stepping over consumers rights. I simply vote by not buying at all, even though, it does not affect me now.

 

You make people buy your stuff by adding value, not other way around. Think getting a plushy of a character in the game you are buying. That's added value.