| Impulsivity said: Every time they rerelease star wars (DVD, Blu Ray in the future) they add features and digitally remaster it so you do get something. When looking at VC games they are identical to the game I played 20 years ago in just about every way. I can't see that they added anything to make it worth paying for again, if someone else sees something then great. As far as being a thief, I have never downloaded a single game or piece of software that wasn't at least a decade old. I have never stolen anything that has any real world value either. To be honest the copyright law in the US is just silly when it comes to electronic IP and is designed not to benefit developers but rather big companies with plenty of money. Why in the world should electronic games/software be copyrighted for 70 years? That makes 0 sense, I mean even life saving medications which matter far more are only copyrighted (patented) for 15 years. To say that downloading Super Mario Bros 3 (which I owned when it was new, probably in the trash somewhere since it's...you know...20 years old) is the same as downloading Half Life 2 is missing the point. There is no good arguement for downloading a new game you haven't bought, there is really no good arguement for saying that downloading a 15 years old game is wrong. The idea that we should have to pay over 10 dollars for things that have long since paid for themselves is a falsehood I don't really perscribe to. I am sure some people have hundreds of dollars just sitting there and would love to pay for everything at full price, even things from before they were born, but that's not me.
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Honestly, I would pay more for the Starwars movies if they didn't add any "value" to them ... The bonus features, additional special effects, and super-duper directors cuts make the movies far worse.
Beyond that, nothing has any value beyond what people are willing to pay ... That is a fundimental rule of capatalism; nothing that is popular on a wide scale can really be considered too expensive. Arguing that you "shouldn't" have to pay a certain ammount of money is foolish and doesn't make any sense.
For me, and a large portion of people who are old enough and have jobs, $10 is a tiny cost to get (in many cases) 8 to 16+ hours of entertainment from a game; when you compare that to the $60 you spend for 8 to 16+ hours of entertainment you get from most HD games it is a massive bargain.
