Hawkeye said:
I feel this way too. If I buy old games off ebay or whatever, I try to buy the box wth it, unless it doubles th games price or something. |
On top of that - and I've brought up this point before in digital distribution discussion threads - the secondary market acts as a check against publishers. Being able to buy and sell used games ensures that prices drop faster, that consumers have a "safety net" for when they buy bad games, and that publishers take a hit for releasign subpar games. Absent that, publishers can set whatever price they want without having to worry about competing against the secondary market, early-adopter gamers are stuck with $60 piles of crap when a game turns out to be bad, and budget-minded gamers no longer have the option to purchase used. That's not a big deal for $10 games, but for full-priced games, you bet it is.
In other words, in a full digital distribution scenario, everyone loses but the publishers.
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
-Sean Malstrom
