Piracy or Used Games. Which one do you think hurts Developers more?

[Mr Khan]

disolitude said:
Piracy is one thing... and used game sales may 'hurt' the developers, but so freekin what?

Having to keep a game you have finished and will never play again hurts your bottom line. And last time I checked games are still classified as goods, and goods are allowed to be re-sold.

So I think the industry is full of shit when they start blaming used games for all of their problems. Ford doesn't bitch about how used car sales ruin their new car sales and they are not disabling the engine for a fee if a car is resold.

If these game publishers had any business sense they would have controlled the whole used game sales situation by allowing trade ins for new game credit themselves. Video games are already one of the most over valued and quickest to depricite goods in existence and they want the users to take a financial hit on top by not re-selling their games at all.

そうだ、あなとと言いうことばは版元のまちがいです。

The publishers should have cut out the middleman and controlled redistribution. An online game exchange run by EA, Square Enix, Sony, etc, would have many opportunities and allow them to at least eat resale profits instead of functionally donating it all to GameStop. I'd imagine people would trust the publishers more as well.