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| ironmanDX said: I said potential... Not 100%. 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. That is a ridiculous statement. Why else would they encourage both trade and re-sale? To get more MONEY! I'm not even going to reply to you after this. I can't see a point. At least I posted a source with evidence to help my opinion, you just brush it off as nothing. Yet I'm trying to hide? Lol, ok. GAME UK went out of business? Wow, how many publishers and devs have this gen? A shitload more than 1. Thats only 2006-2012. |
You just need to get to the idea that those companies didn't go out of business because of used games. I picked 3 companies at random from that list. DICE Canada, bought by EA and their Canadian office closed...you'd think EA were in canada or something. NetDevil, made MMORPGs, latest was a PC online subscription MMO called LEGO Universe, yeah 'used' sale were responsible there as well I see. Rebellion Derby, Rebellion is still open just not their Derby branch, what used to be called 'Core Design' was closed (quoted from their wikipedia page) '... Derby studio was closed by Rebellion in 2010 due to an expiring lease and the inability for the company to find a financier for the studio', yep used games again.
Regardless of how or why games companies go under is beside the point, Microsoft's guard against piracy is all this DRM stuff is and nothing to do with used games. Microsoft had a huge issue with piracy last generation, they didn't have an issue with used games.
btw, "I'm not even going to reply to you after this. I can't see a point."
Fair enough. Nice discussion none the less.
Hmm, pie.
