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RolStoppable said:
JayWood2010 said:
RolStoppable said:

As a gamer, I choose the "make better games" option.

Here is the problem with that.  A lot of games that are not considered good are games that kids would like.  For example kinect games.  We dont like them but why should kids be out of the equation just because we dont consider them good.

What?

Games that are bought for kids are rarely sold back to stores or on ebay within a week, because kids are happy about getting a video game. In most cases it is a game they explicitly asked for, so they will want to keep it.

What im saying is just because we dont consider a game good doesnt mean that there is a demogrphic that thinks otherwise.  UIn some cases yes there is companies who makes bad games and I get that.  Duke Nukem comes to mind.  But i see way to often games like Halo, Call of Duty, Gran Turismo, etc  being sold used within the first week of release and that is bullshit.  Not only are they great games but they have a lot of replayabily.  That means those companies are losing money because of that.  

There is other problems in the industry other than used games but used games are still a problem for the industry and not just for smaller companies but bigger ones too.  Even if they just stopped selling a brand new game used in the first few months would help over all




       

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The fact is, you are making a lot of unreasonable assumptions.

Your car example is bad. A car is very different to a game, a game (or at least the type of game that is going to be sold back to a store) is only fun when you haven't experienced that part of the game before. Nobody says, well, it's boring driving my car to the shops, because I've already driven it to the shops once before.

Additionally, people sell their cars 2nd hand after about a year. A year old car competes with a new car better than a 2 month old single player game competes with a modern single player game, because everyone who cares about it has played it.

You accuse used games of driving developers out of business, and then demand that small developers halve the price of their games? The truth is, the ability to sell games second hand increases their value - people are happy paying more for a game they can resell later. In addition, people use the money they make selling games to buy new games, helping to fund developers further.

Honestly, you have no clue about the actual implications of these things you suggest.

Note how developers that make high quality games (Nintendo is the best example) never bitch about used game sales. I will never sell any of my Nintendo games, probably not even when the sequels to them come out - I might still want to play MK:Wii for the courses that are in there. Make good games that people will want to keep, if you



The fact is, you are making a lot of unreasonable assumptions.

Your car example is bad. A car is very different to a game, a game (or at least the type of game that is going to be sold back to a store) is only fun when you haven't experienced that part of the game before. Nobody says, well, it's boring driving my car to the shops, because I've already driven it to the shops once before.

Additionally, people sell their cars 2nd hand after about a year. A year old car competes with a new car better than a 2 month old single player game competes with a modern single player game, because everyone who cares about it has played it.

You accuse used games of driving developers out of business, and then demand that small developers halve the price of their games? The truth is, the ability to sell games second hand increases their value - people are happy paying more for a game they can resell later. In addition, people use the money they make selling games to buy new games, helping to fund developers further.

Honestly, you have no clue about the actual implications of these things you suggest.

Note how developers that make high quality games (Nintendo is the best example) never bitch about used game sales. I will never sell any of my Nintendo games, probably not even when the sequels to them come out - I might still want to play MK:Wii for the courses that are in there. Make good games that people will want to keep, if you want to stop used games sales and have people pay full price for your games.