| spaceguy said: I just realized that most of you are the same ones not every buying new and are a part of the problem. Most likely the people that want everything free and thinking second hand games don't hurt the market is just putting your head in the sand. |
Wow, that's quite a claim, and rather offensive to boot. You just said that anybody who would consider second hand games to be acceptable must necessarily never buy new games.
I own over 40 Wii games. Of those, I might have bought one or two of them used (I'm not even certain I bought one of them used). I bought a few DS games used (maybe 3-4 of them), mostly games that I otherwise wouldn't have bought at all, just because they were too cheap to pass up, and I'd heard a few good things about them. Other than that, my main used-game expenditures were from the previous generation - Gamecube and GBA... at that time, you couldn't buy them new anymore, and EBGames was having a huge sale where they were getting rid of the last of their stock for $2 per GBA game and $5 per GC game.
Oh, and I've traded in a game maybe 3-4 times in my life. Two of those games were because I was very underwhelmed with them, and it was a trade-in deal, 2-for-1 (the traded games were Big Brain Academy and, I think, Rayman Raving Rabbids 2). Another was Super Mario 3D Land, which I traded for Pokemon White 2 because the store had a one-for-one deal and I didn't have the money to buy White 2; I intend on buying Super Mario 3D Land again eventually, probably a new copy and not a used copy. I may have once traded some other game, but I'm not certain of it.
But hey, I'm not offended by the used game market, and thus I must necessarily be someone who never buys new games, right?
What you've just done is attack everyone who disagrees with you, rather than countering their arguments. So you can go and... enjoy your own company, if you know what I mean.
