Some Game Prices in Canada Have Risen to $85

[ReimTime]

yvanjean said:

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.

 

What? When a store buys a bunch of games from a publisher, and the games are sitting on shelves, the developer has already been paid. If the games sit there on the shelf it is the store who is on the hook. You're right in that devs do not get profit from used sales. That's obvious; I sold my game to the store, not the dev.

Wrong. I bought all my games brand new, getting discounts from trading in the old ones. If the CAD was higher i would buy more games at launch. It wouldn't matter if I bought them used anyhow; I'm under no obligation to buy at launch or new.

The idea of supporting devs? I have said several times that i do buy games new, even though i am under no obligation to. What do you want me to do, buy 5 copies of the same game lol? How about I support my education, my family, or sponsor an African orphan - all things that I do and things that should be considered of higher priority than a business who is further removed from my existence than a stranger at the bank. They are a business not a charity lol.

Look, its obvious we have very different ideas here, so Im going off the air. Next time try not to paint me like I'm a homosexual in the 15th century lol