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The Fury on 13 June 2013
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ironmanDX said:
The Fury said:
ironmanDX said:

@Euphoria, It wasn't the sole reason why some studios closed but it was without a doubt a major factor. Devs get 0% of that money for something they made! MS is giving them a cut, that shouldn't be a bad thing.

In order for there to be a used copy the game has to have alread been sold at full new price. 

No kidding, I wasn't clear enough with my point. If a brand new game is $60, how much do the devs get?

If the same game is $55-50, it's a new release if it's $60 new right? The store gets all that profit and the devs lost a potential customer.

EB games here in Australia, awards you more for trading games in and awards you more for buying second hand games. They're getting away with theft, not literally but they are making a steal... You get what I mean!!

https://www.ebgames.com.au/EBWorld/about

I've posted it before.

How have they lost a potential customer when the original customer has played the game and probably thought "This is a bit crap, I'll trade it in and get a game that's good"? There's your lost customer.

As a new customer bought the used game, there are the same amount of people playing, original owner doesn't have this copy anymore, according to the developer, the same amount of people are playing. I originally bought Uncharted used, I couldn't find it for less than £30 new, bought it for £15 used to 'give it a try', it was great and I bought Uncharted 2 and 3 new, this sound like a lost customer?

Stop trying to hide behind the idea that high street stores make lots of money from us and don't give anything to the developers. GAME in the uk went bust last year because of all the money they make from used games. The developers have their money from the original sale.



Hmm, pie.