Volition dev: next Xbox not playing pre-owned games would be "fantastic"

[crissindahouse]

i have the feeling you are one of the developers so i will tell you that:

i don't care if it's something different to automobiles. i buy a game so i want to have the right to sell what i bought. since when can some guy like you say me what i have to do with my bought product?

i don't even buy used games but i can understand many of my friends doing it sometimes. some people sell their console with their used games to purchase the next gen. if they can't do it they can't buy the next gen.

without the used market many gamestop shops and so on will die. without these shops there isn't the presence of gaming anymore in our shopping malls which could mean that the console sales will shrink.

i really wonder what guys like you think developers lose because of the used market. most people who buy used games wouldn't buy those games new. so you lose exactly 0 dollar with that. just a few percent of gamers buy used games instead of new ones. many by used games but not instead of buying it new. it's not like 90% of gamers wait to get the game few weeks after release on gamestop for less money so they don't buy the games new. they buy the used games trading their other used games and put few dollar extra to that. do yo really think all thes people would buy the games new otherwise? most of them would not even have a console then.

some of my friends sell used games to buy a new ones. if they can't sell them anymore they won't buy the new ones because they don't have the money anymore for that and the people who buy the used games from my friends wouldn't buy a new one as well.

i belive the used market helped the gaming industry instead of destroying it. or mabye not helping but it doesnt hurt the industry.

some people don't want to buy a game. for example i didn't buy arkham asylum. that's my last game i bought used. i loved the game so i bought arkham city new then. if i wouldn't have played th fisrt game used i wouldn't have bought the other one new. that means the developers sold one game to me instead of no game.

so more people buy used games so more people can buy dlc's. if you sell 10 million games new wihout used market or if you sell 8 million games +x-million who buy the game used (and would never buy it new) and can be potential customers for the game dlc and , like i said with my case, will maybe buy the successor of that game new because the liked the used game so much and they would never have played it without used mrket so they would never buy the successor.

there are hundreds of points i could enumerate gaming developers never think about.