| ReimTime said: Well actually, me trading in my games is helping to keep physical game stores like EBgames in business. Really though I don't give a rat's ass lol the highest amount of money is retained by me when I use the method I stated. Furthermore I'm not sure how you are assuming that I don't support the developer here....... I buy the games new then trade them in. Therefore the devs profit. Once the game is shipped to a store the devs already profit lol. EBgames is now on the hook to sell that game in order to make a profit. They (EBGames) only make ~$5 per new sale btw (if I remember correctly) I trade the games in after. Therefore I make some of my money back. EBgames gets to profit from reselling the game as used. Everyone wins! I don't see any authors complain when their books are in libraries lol. I support the devs by playing their game bruh |
That's simply is not true, we are only supporting devs if they get money for the game we are playing. In your example your showing that people buying used games or secondhand game are in this case only supporting your gaming habit. If your game get resold 5-10 times, devs only got support from your initial purchase. EB games or gamestop have a policy to push discount used game to customers. By offering small $5-10 discount they are cutting out game devs.
From what you said your also never paid full retail price. MGS V you bought $40, Fallout 4 you bought $40, Witcher 3 $25. Because of the amount that you've paid and amount of credit that you claim. It's easy to see that you bought MGS V and Fallout 4 used (retail price for these game is $60 USD) and trade them in to Eb games close toward the release date of these games (first three months). Therefore, for these two games devs never got your support and never will for any amount of time that your game get resold after your sold it to eb games. You may or may not have bought Witcher 3 at retail during winter sales.
You are the perfect example of gamers not supporting devs. Yet, you make a post like you actually are supporting devs. You are only supporting the physical store or other gamers gaming habit, Eb games and gamestop make most of their profits from the used games market, they do this by under cutting retail which in turn take away money that would go to devs.
Retail markup is more like 25-30%, the 5$ per game would be profit per game sold after all other expense (rent, employees, advertising, unsold used inventory). Only new games sales and digital sales actually support devs.
