Aielyn said:
You've just massively altered the goalposts, now. Who said anything about developers having to "sacrifice and make a shitty game"? I said that they needed to make games that gamers felt the desire to keep! And yes, you've seen many used Wii games - like I said, the vast majority of them will have been the crappy titles, not the quality ones - unlike 360 and PS3 used games sections, which are filled with AAA titles. And if one weak game can tank a software company, then that software company is doing a bad job - either they're making their games too expensively, or they're just not making very good games. And you just admitted to the problem I pointed out - "...and used to not ruin software companies but with high cost of developement it is." Exactly - cost of development is the problem. And I never once said you should pay $100 a game or have Wii graphics and short games. In fact, I said QUITE THE OPPOSITE. I said that they needed to focus on QUALITY, rather than HYPE. They need to make games people want to keep owning - that may actually require a REDUCTION in game cost, and an INCREASE in game length. And I like your edit, using the old idiotic fanboy argument "Oh, the Wii owner was young children". Yeah, I'm sure that, with a tie ratio of 10+, most of the Wii owners were young children. But hey, why bother with fact when you can go with internet fanboyism? |
WOOOOOOOOO!!!! buddy calm down. I own a Wii. I just don't like Sony because I got screwed by sony, it seemed over and over. I'm sorry but your pushing all the blame on the developer, costs are way to high for them. Something has to give. either cost of games rises or they figure out a way to lesson the damage of second hand. Second hand games is massive business, it wasn't like that in the past. THis is the first time we got companies telling you to never buy new and they will sit there and talk your face off to get you to do so. Always do it to me in gamestop. I'm like, "Just give me my f-cking game, holy sh-t! I never said that but felt like it at times."
Everything that you expect and are asking for is not cheap and you seem to think it is, It's not. Not everyone is at their best all the time. In business you have good months and bad month, good years and bad years. Software companies can't even handle one bad game or a game that wasn't recieved well. Darksiders, both games, top notch. What happened? Some people don't care to hold onto games or in my brothers case he is always after the cheapest deal, if that means plowing throw a game and selling it back right away, thats what he does and I think it is a trend in teenagers.
How many times do you think one game goes through gamestop? I bet the number is high for some. I could see one game making it's way around ten times. That being the worst case but c'mon. One game, ten buys that will never happen off of one game. However if each one of those buys needed a code. Well There you go. Thing is, you do own your game, so with a code you could sell. You won't get as much but hey, i rather them take the money out of the second hand seller, the person reselling games all the time.
For instance you go into gamestop to buy a used game. Games stop will keep the price of the game low or sell the game with the code. What it really does is take the profit margin down for the person reselling the game. They already screw people and then put it back out for $5 bucks cheaper. Sometime I see games cheaper at best buy new, than at gamestop used.
However back to my point. When you buy the game, the code is just a part of the game, If you don't have it, well you got to get another. or just buy it at gamestop. I'm just taking a point of a random Idea I had. There could be many different ways to do it. Mine is just but one but I don't see the code as a problem for the person buying the used game. I see it as a problem for gamestop and the second hand seller. Mainly they get less money on the transaction and we don't have to watch great software companies die for no reason. Because gamestop will have to make the game cheaper even with the code or they will go out of business. They would also have to pay out less to the person selling the game. So all the awesome deals I showed you earlier from gamestop, they would have to chill out on that or take the hit themselfs. Also I'm sure you will have a removable hard drive. So you want to play at your friends, either download you profile at their house or bring your hardrive. Or maybe your code can be shared up to 4 times, the persons having used the code always can access the game. just throwing out random ideas.
I'm not at microsoft making the rules or designing them but the idea sounds like it would be easy enough. At no cost extra to the person buying new, ME!!!
