UPDATED!!! People like second hand games but software companies can't handle the cost.

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kain_kusanagi said:

Nothing. I own the stuff I buy. It's my right to sell it, trade, keep it, modify it, or burn it in a toaster.

If dev's can't handle the cost of making a game I suggest they stop spending millions developing AAA gambles. If it's unproven do it indie style. That means do the gameplay right, but don't spend too much on presentation. It works in the film industry.

I'm tired of everyone saying that poor game publishers are losing half their money to used game sales. Bullshit! Every industry has used sales yet only video game companies are hurt by them?

The only different between the video game industry and all the others is that they have spent that last decade tricking people into thinking that we don't own the stuff we buy. They did it little by little. First it was Digital Distribution, then it was Online Passes, and now they want to take all our ownership rights and expect us to let it happen because we shouldn't buy used anyway.

Don't let them fool you.

This +1 million.

Online pass I'm OK with if it's to allow use of online play. It costs to maintain online gaming services so everyone who plays a game should share in those costs. If you buy new, then the price you pay goes towards maintaining online gameplay, if you buy used then you should pay your fair share. $5-$10 is fair pay for that sort of access.

I say if retailers are making profits from used games then some of that coin can go to the publisher. It's really one big business screwing over another, so the big boys should fight it out themselves.

Also it's not only game software developers and publishers who have been playing the "you don't own it" game producers of accounting and small business software do the same thing. You don't own that copy of small business accounting software you paid hundreds of dollars for, and we'll take you to court if you try to sell it to someone else even if you never use it and it's remained in its sealed packaging. Oh, and no returns either.