Anti-used gaming policy is good for gamers.

[the2real4mafol]

richardhutnik said:

the2real4mafol said:

dane007 said:
Secondly gaming is not meant  for everyon. if you can't afford it then its unfortunate (GET OUT, who are you to tell people what to do?!?). i mean people who belong to very low to low socioeconomic category should focus more on how to support themselves and or family instead of gaming. if you are in the middle and can't afford all of it,, then how is it a big loss? if you can't afford it straight away wait til it gets cheap. you don't have to buy it straight away right? -(Didn't you just call these people cheapskates? Ain't you contradictory?!) 

 

Well why should the gaming industry be yet another thing that poorer people are priced out of? There is no need for a game to cost over $5 million to make. You don't here such problems on mobile games or handheld games do you? Not only are they cheaper to buy but they are so much cheaper to make too. In fact, i remember hearing that Nintendo DS games could sell only 250,000 units and make a profit. Also, why is it the gamers fault? They don't set the price, that's up to a retailer. Also, don't you think we already support good developers? They would of gone bankrupt otherwise. While, games like uncharted and halo are so well recieved because of their gameplay and they only happen to have top of the range graphics. If they weren't supported they would of not got sequels. Also, graphics are clearly not everything, i mean why would Minecraft or Call of Duty be so popular, the graphics are not worth talking about in either game. Also, learn how to spell.     

The longing to be taken seriously, to be seen as culturally critical and artistic as film, and the desire to create blockbusters and win all, results in videogames getting as expensive as they are to make.  You also need to keep your teams of hundreds going.  And the fight for consumer dollars means that more mojney is spent.

But gaming will be taken seriously in it's own time, it don't need the big budgets and set pieces of films to do that. You can throw money at something, but it don't always make it good. I want good innovative games, not crappy AAA games. I guess that's the real problem here, it's not second hand gaming or the amount of people who game. We just expect too much from developers, bigger and better constantly but maybe we hit a point where we can't get more out of whats available to a developer just yet, as it cost too much money to do bigger and better