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| Rhonin the wizard said: Is anyone going on a crusade to ban used books sales? or used movie DVDs? how about used houses?
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Fair point, but I'd argue that Video Games are a different beast than either of those. books houses and cars all noticeably degrade over time and buying a used car will inherently come with more repair costs than a new one. Movie DVDs are very similar to Video Games except that Video Games only get one shot at getting your money while a large portion of the film industry's money is from theatre ticket sales more so than the sale of DVDs. This holds true for music as well since most bands make a significant portion of their income from live shows instead of CD sales. Video Games are much more like computer software since it's something that rarely degrades when used and the creators only get one shot at the customers' money, and software designers have been fighting used sales/duplication for quite a while so it doesn't seem unreasonable to me that the video game industry would try to do the same.
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