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

[Jereel Hunter]

thekitchensink said:

Brainslug said:

This is also lost revenue do to us evil customers lending our games to our friends - how dare people not pay them to lend their games to their friends! --

You, sir, officially have more sense than this guy.  And I suppose if multiple people in the same household want to play the game, he'd like them all to buy their own copy?

By the way, somehow the book, furniture, and toy industries (along with pretty much every other one) has survived for thousands of years despite people having the audacity to *gasp* SELL SOMETHING THEY OWN!

This isn't a fair comparison, as physical products are very different. If you have a couch, or a toy, it's worn and used when you sell it. You are buying what's left in it's usefulness and lifespan. When I give my old couch to someone who just moves out, they are getting an old couch to use for a year or two until they can afford to buy one.

Sell a used game, and person #2 can get the full value from it. $60 game, still a $60, for less than $60. So can person 3, 4, and 5 if the game is traded in and resold later on.

Also, I can get a really nice couch from a quality store for $2000 and it'll still look great after 5 years, or I can get a cheap $300 couch from a discount furniture store. The $2000 couch store got paid for their quality product. If one o fthese games had a $10 Million budget, or a $50 Million budget, they have to sell it for the same $60. So the fact that it will continue to sell and resell in the used games market, with almost no advantage of buying a new copy (vs a VERY clear and huge advantage of buying a new couch) gives them valid reason to be unhappy.