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You title confused me a bit there....

Just like the dude in the video, I'm tired of repeating myself as to why used games are not the problem (people just don't fucking listen). But it's all corporate greed. These publishers/dev think too much about short term and not enough long term when marketing their games. They think can make big money if they invest all/most/a lot of their budget on one game.

Most of these companies think they're Hollywood. They invest 60+ million dollars on a game with pretty graphics, hardly any content, and not enough game play and depth. It's a few hundred thousand to a million or two shy from their expectations. What do they do? either complain that things like used games weren't helping their sales, or they start providing DLC for a premium price to make up for their losses.

That's what they're doing. They develop/release a game with very little replay value that gamers don't feel it's worthwhile to keep. They age so much faster that they're not that fun to play anymore.

If this keeps going then we might see another crash. Release a crappy game, it doesn't make money, closed for good. So yeah the concept of used games will cease to exist someday.