If I buy used I make sure I buy at well below the new price, even well below the platinum/greatest hits/classic price. And I tend not to buy used games from retailers. The used game market is on online auction sites.
Developers should do a deal with retailers and give them a bigger cut of new game sales in return for them receiving a cut of used game sales.
If game retailers can't survive on the meagre offerings they receive from new game sales then specialist game retailers, and Mom and Pop game stores are going to cease to exist and you'll only be able to get your stuff from the Walmarts, Targets and Best Buys of the world. When that happens the number and variety of games will decrease because those department store retailers won't want to stock niche titles that are relatively slow sellers.
Niche games will all be forced to become DLC so will be limited in size and scope at least until internet speeds become super fast in most of the world.
I don't mind making people pay a fair rate for using online which is an ongoing maintenance cost which new game buyers should be subsidising used game buyers. But I don't think the possible demise of the specialist game retailer is a good trade off.
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