This notion that used games are somehow putting video game publishers out of business is complete bull****. It is a lie to justify their corporate greed, nothing more.
I ask you: What other company/industry feels entitled to double (triple) dip into a consumer's pocket AFTER the initial sale of their product? If you sell your car, do you send Toyota a check with their 'cut' of the sale? If you sell a bunch of old DVDs or CD's at a garage sale, does Warner Bros or Geffen records come pounding on your door to collect their share of the re-sale? If you lend your paperback copy of War and Peace to your friend, does he need to pay Random House a fee in order to read it?
What's so special about video game companies that they are entitled to make more money off of a game that they've already sold once to a consumer? Answer: NOTHING. This is just an underhanded move based on corporate greed that screws the customer by trying to milk them for cash every time a BOUGHT AND PAID FOR copy of their game changes hands.
Let's just call Microsoft's policies for what they are: anti-consumer.
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