| endimion said: god gamers are becoming the most self entitle b... now a days... it's like people on smartphone stores btching when a game is not free or cost more than 99 cents... you don't make a game like forza or halo with the same team as mine craft.... especially if you want to respect a tight schedule.... you have tones of models to create.... you have to do motion capture, you have to do sound capture and equalization, soundtracks to make or buy rights from... you have huge engines to code, you have environement to recreate etc etc etc... people bitch when those title have a single flaw and then when dev say we struggle to stay afloat they say "guys you don't need that many staff, just fire some" what a great mentality.... lets retake the car industry for a second.... why not apply the same reasoning.... "hey guys you can relocate in china or why not replace humans by machines".... you guys are basically saying you want the great games to keep coming and get better but you want to have nothing to do with the struggles company have keeping their staff or staying in a country with hire wages and taxation on salaries.... the more I read people on gamers forum the more I think they are right to cut of second hand sales.... you don't want to pay more for better games..... they don't want to fire their staff.... "this is what you get, we indefinitely rent you the game, but don't expect to sell it, it ain't yours no more bitches".... |
The market will work itself out, just not sure it will be in Microsoft / developers favor. Don't forget EVERY used game sale started as a new game sale.
If you eliminate used games, what happense if NEW game sales DROP (due to the heavily increased EFFECTIVE cost now that you can never resell it)? Then who are they going to blame?
COMPETITION is to blame. With engines available for purchase (cry to unreal), smaller studios are able to crank out decent games which is putting a burden on "larger" studios who are used to not having to worry about budgets. I have choices now, and they can't seem to handle that. They think FORCING people to buy new is the answer.
I'm far from a bitchy gamer. Hardly. I'm simply saying that its not black and white. The issue is NOT used games. I just bought The Last of Us brand new (you can insert any game here if it helps you visualize the example) because I know I can resell it later. If I knew I couldn't, I [might] simply wait till a better deal came along, and while waiting I might forget about said game and move on to the next. Therefore, they get best case less of my money, or worst case NONE of it.
