Why is buying used games such a big deal nowadays?

[tracyllrkn]

Michael-5 said:

tracyllrkn said:
Probably because publishers are barely making a profit, or even not making a profit at all.

Last I checked EA, Activision, and Microsoft were doing anything but struggling. Like I said Square Enix wouldn't have existed if Final Fantasy didn't do exceptionatly well, it was just as hard to be big back then as it is now.

How can you say publishers are struggling now, but not before, when we had rental game services, and a smaller market?

Becuase games are becoming more expensive to make. Who knows how much games will cost to make this gen.