Quantic Dream - €10 million lost from second hand Heavy Rain sales

[vlad321]

thekitchensink said:

vlad321 said:

Well since I wrote a lot about this before, let me jsut say that you can't compare a clock or other physical goods to games, books, etc. The value of physical goods, like cars and stuff, is what they do for you, meanwhile the value of entertainment is the idea. When you sell a car or a clock, you no longer get its value. If you have seen a movie or played a game, you have already used the value that the original creator made, and you can't really transfer that such that you no longer benefit from it. If you pirate it or buy/sell it used the original creator doesn't see the money for the vlue he created for you, the utility it provided, if you will. It's just that with the used market someone gets paid INSTEAD of the original creator, meanwhile with piracy no one gets money off of the original creator's back. Which is why I argued that used markets are a bit under pirates morally.

Economically it's slightly more complex, yes, but morally that's what it comes down to, I feel like.

Not sure what you mean here, good sir.  You seem to be saying that you have still gotten the benefit of the game if you sell it and then use it.  However, if I buy Smash Bros Brawl, playit for a year, then sell it, I am no longer able to benefit from the idea of the game.  I was able to benefit from it for the year that I had it, but then how is that different from owning a car for a year and then selling it?

However the entertainment, or experience, you had for that 1 year is not magically transfered and you have it with you. You have been entertained with the developer's idea. Meanwhile a car's value is to get you places, when you sell it you can no longer go places, its value is automatically gone.