Some of you are comparing used game sales to piracy?????? One method the consumer is still dishing out $$, the other method the consumer is stealing property. Used Gaming is perfectly legal, and as far as I'm concerned not moraly wrong. Yes, used games from the monetary perspective is equivalent to piracy, but in terms of the individual THAT'S AN OBSURD COMPARISON!!! I understand the dilemna the developers and publishers face, and if EA feels the need to combat it then good for them. But seriously, the discounted sale of a used item is by no stretch of the imagination a new concept.

Glad it's just sports games for right now:)

Not just software, music and movies are also IP. The engine is a patent not an IP. Maybe you need to learn the difference between patents and IP, because a idfference does indeed exist.

Copyright infringement is what happens when you make a copy without a license to make a copy. You cannot buy what's inside the CD because that's an IP, by definition you do not own an IP, the creator does.

Oh so because you throw money at it it makes it less hurtful. What a horrible logic. Just because you spend money does not mean it actually gets to the developer, which is the entity that should see the money.

I hate to break it to you, but as far as piracy and used games go, used games are far worse morally than piracy. "Not only will I deprve the developer of money, I'll make some for myself off his work." That's why used games are so morally fucked up.

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Piracy - I will make a copy of the game without paying

Used games - I will buy the game from the company, and then do what I want with the game I bought.

I see a subtle difference in that one is morally wrong while the other is morally neutral. 100% morally neutral. There is absolutely nothing wrong whatsoever with reselling your game. You bought it, it's yours, do what you want. And that is completey ignoring the fact that in the used games practice, the primary reason for such a practice is to raise money for the purchase of new games. 

Hey, I paid full price for a game, and the decided to sell my own property to make money to buy another new game. Damn, I'm worse than a thief!

That would be great, except that the game is not your property. It's the intellectual property of the developers. The CD you got it on is yours, but the actual game is not. You are literally making money off their work. That's far worse than just making a copy.

How is giving the developers money worse than not giving them money? You know your argument doesn't make any damn sense right? And yes, if they sell you something, it's yours. They don't own what's in my game stack, I do. Do you use the same argument for CD and DVD sales?

This again also ignores the fact that used game sales help fuel the industry. Many people wouldn't by a console if they couldn't buy used games, just as many people wouldn't buy new games if they couldn't later resell them.

Because you deprive them of money when you sell your game, on top of making money off their work. In the end they don't see money they should see, and in one case you make money off their work and in the other you don't. Games are not hardware. Same with movies and music.

That argument about improving the industry is just as valid for piracy. For example, the PSP would be doing far worse if it wasn't able to be unlocked.

You are entering in a moral discussion that doesn't matter right now. This is an economic problem.

They are NOT removing your right to sell your game, you can still sell your game to whoever you want at the price that you want. But the point its that the moment you USED your game and it becomes less valuable than the new game (as it happens with any other fisical good), you STILL can sell your game but now the game has less features, that the new owner can add paying to the DEVELOPER/PUBLISHER some money.

Before if you sell the used game for just 5-10 dollars less than the original price (as most big Stores do), the difference was nothing, you got the exact same game, now you receive a worst copy a really USED copy of the game, and you cannot resell it for almost the same amount, without at least telling the customer.

They are not trying to punish the gamer who sells games, they are trying to reduce the income of the stores that MASSIVELY buy games for a LOT less money from the customers and then Resell it for ALMOST the same ORIGINAL price, generating a HUGE profit from which the developer/publisher (you know the people that actually worked on the game, payed for the publicity, etc) its seeing NOTHING. As some other user (hellzenvy) said before, those stores usually PUSH THE USED GAME ON YOU before the new game. If you want it to slow down or stop, you have to reduce the profit they can generate from buying your used game for only 15 bucks and then reselling it for 55 the same week that the game came out.

The point about being WORST than piracy for the DEVELOPERS/PUBLISHERS, its that not only they are not receiving money for the used copy, but the store is taking one potential customer that WAS willing to pay money for the game, but now buys the used copy for only 5 bucks less, because its cheaper for him.

Let's see.

When I buy a new car, I can drive it.  When I trade it in I can't, because I don't have the car any more.  The person who buys that same car from the used car lot gets a good car, but it's not as shiny as the new model year cars.

When I buy a new game, I can play it.  When I trade it in I can't, because I don't have the disc any more.  The person who buys that same gane from the used game shop gets a good game, but it's not as graphically impressive as the new games.

Not even close?