Anti-used gaming policy is good for gamers.

[thekitchensink]

youarebadatgames said:

thekitchensink said:
I am very tired of reiterating the same counters to these same claims over and over again, but here goes. We do not exist to serve the needs of the developer. They exist to try to please us. It is not our responsibility to manage their business and make up for their inability to properly manage their finances and growth. And yes, they actually are selling us a disc. Unless you're going to try and tell me that when I buy a DVD, I don't own a digital video disc, but a 'license to watch the movie,' which would be the stupidest thing I've ever heard. We never heard a peep from them about disliking the used game market and how it was so amoral until they discovered a way to block it out or take a piece of the pie themselves.

And don't try the excuse that we don't complain when PC games have DRM-no one liked it there either, and it's why PC games get pirated exponentially more often than console games.

The long and short of it: if you don't think what they're doing will affect your buying decision, more power to you. But to try to spin this into anything that can be remotely positive for the consumer--that is just incorrect in every conceivable way.

People didn't like Steam at first, but now it has probably done the most of anything out there to decrease piracy.  The only people who still pirate are the ones who will never pay for it anyways, and are willing to risk using a crack.

If you don't like the price of admission, don't buy the system, don't play the games, and go build your own DRM free console.  Bitch all you want, but voting with your wallet matters, and I bet nobody will give a shit in a year once these consoles get released because it's all talk no action like the COD boycott that did jack.

Steam is completely irrelevant to this discussion--it is a digital download platform, and here we are discussing items that you go to a store and purchase.  I seriously hope I don't need to explain the difference.

And I will be voting with my wallet.  As an avid Xbox fan since the launch of the original, you can bet I won't be buying this anti-consumer piece of trash.