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I also find it funny that people say 2nd hand sales are hurting the industry yet the industry has grown time and time again over the last 30 or so years and now sells more games than ever before.

Companies go out of business, that is just the cold hard truth about business. None of them are entitled to remain in the industry. They need to earn the right to stay and the consumer ultimately makes that choice. That or the devs make stupid decisions and go under due to no reason other than their own mismanagement or people just not wanting what they are selling. (Ex: 38 Studios, THQ)

It isn't our responsibility to foot the bill for their dumb mistakes. It isn't our responsibility to give up out consumer rights so they can keep spending $100m to make a game and then another $100M trying to advertise it because they want 5M+ sales. It isn't our fault that some studios get shut down once their game goes gold and doesn't even have a chance to sell a copy or *yikes!* have some end up on shelves as used. Games shouldn't need those kinds of sales in order to survive in the industry. It is a choice they make and ultimately they will live or die by those choices.

 

Choose to believe it or not, but if you get rid of 2nd hand sales and piracy all together you are still going to see studios go under time and time again. Getting rid of the 2nd hand market will ultimately cause the industry to shrink.