Pre-owned a bigger problem than piracy

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vaio said:

Pre-owned a bigger problem than piracy

Blitz Games Studios’ co-founder Andrew Oliver says second-hand games can effectively quarter owed royalty pay

 

However, citing figures suggesting that games are traded in as many as four times, he says that – if true – this means that publisher and developer royalties are effectively quartered.

No wonder he believes that used game sales is a bigger problem than piracy when he is willing to believe that every game copy is changing hands 4 times.