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Forums - Gaming - Similar evil? Used games retail business = Illegal downloading/torrenting?

UncleScrooge said:
thekitchensink said:

I agree, they're nowhere near the same thing.  If you pirate a game, that means it's available for millions to download at no charge.

If you resell your legitimately purchased copy, that's none of the companies' fucking business.  I have the right to resell my TV, my bookshelf, or my damn house if I want to.  What makes my video games so special?


This! A hundred times!

It is your right as a customer to sell your legally purchased game to whoever you want. The same goes for your old computer, TV, car and everything else.

This discussion is absurd. It's like half of all forum visiters were slaves of the videogaming industry. What's next? Will people stop reselling their cars because of the poor car manufacturers?

Reselling items is part of every market. It's part of a free market economy.

This! fifty times. It's the way the free world works. If a law stops you from seling on your original dics (a tangible object) to protect the developers and publishers market, where does it stop? Then every manufacturer of whatever can claim this right.

People sell their old cars to help buy a new one. Many, many people sell their old games to finance the purchase of new ones. It's a vital cycle and everyone benefits.



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What people of little intellect stend to ignore is that an economy and the flow of money is a cycle.
If someone sells something they previously bought, they get more money to buy new things.
If you take away the right to resell things, consumers have less money to buy new things, hence companies will sell less. Also, the shorter the chain of distribution, the fewer people are involved in the economic process, the fewer people earn money to participate in an economy. That's why physical copies of games are better than digital downloads in several regards.

Unfortunately, those same ignorant people who think that reselling used stuff is somehow "evil" (it's really the oposite) won't read/comprehend this post.



"Well certainly with the Xbox 360, we had some challenges at the launch. Once we identified that we took control of it. We wanted to do it right by our customers. Our customers are very important to us." -Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb (10/2013). Note: RRoD was fixed with the Jasper-revision 3 years after the launch of 360

"People don't pay attention to a lot of the details."-Yusuf Mehdi explaining why Xbone DRM scheme would succeed

"Fortunately we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity; it's called Xbox 360,”-Don Mattrick

"The region locking of the 3DS wasn't done for profits on games"-MDMAlliance

I think pretty much everything important has been said already. To put it short, used games are a lesser evil but they are a necessary evil. It's my right to buy and sell used games.

Also, I don't think I'm going to buy any game that uses the online pass system any time soon. In fact, unless the game is unbelievably awesome (hasn't happened yet I think), I think I'm boycotting it if it uses online pass. Publishers say 'fuck you' to me, I say 'fuck you' to them. The same goes for DRM and piracy.



They are no evil at all. Read the post above yours.



"Well certainly with the Xbox 360, we had some challenges at the launch. Once we identified that we took control of it. We wanted to do it right by our customers. Our customers are very important to us." -Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb (10/2013). Note: RRoD was fixed with the Jasper-revision 3 years after the launch of 360

"People don't pay attention to a lot of the details."-Yusuf Mehdi explaining why Xbone DRM scheme would succeed

"Fortunately we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity; it's called Xbox 360,”-Don Mattrick

"The region locking of the 3DS wasn't done for profits on games"-MDMAlliance