Gamestop shares plummeted on the back of this news.
Its just greed. Plain and simple greed.
Soka on GAF put it perfectly -
So, to summarize, if I buy an XBone game Day 1 and finish it within 3-4 days, paying $60, I can no longer sell it for $50 to some other guy via Craigslist, but instead will be selling to to GameStop for what I'm guessing is less than $30-40?
And, then the developer/publisher and Microsoft get most of that money, while GameStop, who is actually doing the work involved in the transaction, gets 10%?
So in summary: I've been fucked, GameStop has been fucked, MS and the developer/publisher have made more money... until you consider that instead of me having, say, $50 to spend on another game, I'm only going to have $30-40 to spend.
Let's not forget that Gamefly and the like are now fucked too, unless MS works some sort of rental-version policy out with them... which I doubt they'd do.
