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sales2099 on 24 May 2013

I like it. Makes sense and used game sales benefit the industry, not just the retailer.



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sales2099 on 24 May 2013
gigantor21 said:
There's no way that retailers will accept eating such a huge chunk of the sale just for the privilege of selling the games used. I'm sure it'll be WAY smaller for them, so as to strangle private sales and force people to go to the big stores.

The notion that they expect such a fee to be applied across the board makes the rumor seem highly suspect.

When faced with giving away a piece of royalty.......or blocking all used game sales entirely......it is a easy choice to make IMO.

This is great news because it makes used game sales income go back into the industry, rather then just benefit the retailer.



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jlrx on 24 May 2013
sales2099 said:
gigantor21 said:
There's no way that retailers will accept eating such a huge chunk of the sale just for the privilege of selling the games used. I'm sure it'll be WAY smaller for them, so as to strangle private sales and force people to go to the big stores.

The notion that they expect such a fee to be applied across the board makes the rumor seem highly suspect.

When faced with giving away a piece of royalty.......or blocking all used game sales entirely......it is a easy choice to make IMO.

This is great news because it makes used game sales income go back into the industry, rather then just benefit the retailer.

Except for the part with whoever trades in that game gets next to nothing for it, since the retailer gets next to nothing for its resale.



Euphoria14 on 24 May 2013
Player2 said:
Euphoria14 said:
Player2 said:
 

The games are installed in the Xbox One's HDD.

When you sell them a game the "delete game X from profile Y in console Z" command is ordered, but it cannot reach your console until it goes online.

Your XBone needs to check in via internet once every 24 hours. If not, you can't play anything.

Read the huge post I made a few posts above because I'm not going to write it again. In short, I blame the quote tree policy :P

I see now.

Yeah, I don't care for the new quote tree policy either. As shown here, it causes things relevant to conversation to get lost.



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sales2099 on 24 May 2013
jlrx said:
sales2099 said:
gigantor21 said:
There's no way that retailers will accept eating such a huge chunk of the sale just for the privilege of selling the games used. I'm sure it'll be WAY smaller for them, so as to strangle private sales and force people to go to the big stores.

The notion that they expect such a fee to be applied across the board makes the rumor seem highly suspect.

When faced with giving away a piece of royalty.......or blocking all used game sales entirely......it is a easy choice to make IMO.

This is great news because it makes used game sales income go back into the industry, rather then just benefit the retailer.

Except for the part with whoever trades in that game gets next to nothing for it, since the retailer gets next to nothing for its resale.

lol that is no different from todays trade in values. The retailer will still make money, just less. Its basically still pure profit for them, again just less profit margin then before



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LivingMetal on 24 May 2013

No matter how you look at it, there is one thing this always comes back to: anti-consumerism.



jlrx on 24 May 2013
sales2099 said:
jlrx said:
sales2099 said:
gigantor21 said:
There's no way that retailers will accept eating such a huge chunk of the sale just for the privilege of selling the games used. I'm sure it'll be WAY smaller for them, so as to strangle private sales and force people to go to the big stores.

The notion that they expect such a fee to be applied across the board makes the rumor seem highly suspect.

When faced with giving away a piece of royalty.......or blocking all used game sales entirely......it is a easy choice to make IMO.

This is great news because it makes used game sales income go back into the industry, rather then just benefit the retailer.

Except for the part with whoever trades in that game gets next to nothing for it, since the retailer gets next to nothing for its resale.

lol that is no different from todays trade in values. The retailer will still make money, just less. Its basically still pure profit for them, again just less profit margin then before

I stick to a one game policy with my ps3, typically it is the show, I got $28 bucks for it, having already gotten bored with this years iteration. 
So if this is all true and I trade it in, if Gamestop is only going to make $3.50 on their resale of the game, how much would they give me?

(Put that $$ towards Last of Us btw)



sales2099 on 24 May 2013
jlrx said:
sales2099 said:
jlrx said:
sales2099 said:
gigantor21 said:
There's no way that retailers will accept eating such a huge chunk of the sale just for the privilege of selling the games used. I'm sure it'll be WAY smaller for them, so as to strangle private sales and force people to go to the big stores.

The notion that they expect such a fee to be applied across the board makes the rumor seem highly suspect.

When faced with giving away a piece of royalty.......or blocking all used game sales entirely......it is a easy choice to make IMO.

This is great news because it makes used game sales income go back into the industry, rather then just benefit the retailer.

Except for the part with whoever trades in that game gets next to nothing for it, since the retailer gets next to nothing for its resale.

lol that is no different from todays trade in values. The retailer will still make money, just less. Its basically still pure profit for them, again just less profit margin then before

I stick to a one game policy with my ps3, typically it is the show, I got $28 bucks for it, having already gotten bored with this years iteration. 
So if this is all true and I trade it in, if Gamestop is only going to make $3.50 on their resale of the game, how much would they give me?

(Put that $$ towards Last of Us btw)

You get $28 for it, but they could sell it for $50 if they see fit. I don't know the royalty fees and all, but profit is still profit.

This is the retailers problem, not yours. Stop making problems that aren't your own, your own. If true, the gamer can officially scratch used games off the Xbox One cons list.



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enditall727 on 24 May 2013
sales2099 said:
gigantor21 said:
There's no way that retailers will accept eating such a huge chunk of the sale just for the privilege of selling the games used. I'm sure it'll be WAY smaller for them, so as to strangle private sales and force people to go to the big stores.

The notion that they expect such a fee to be applied across the board makes the rumor seem highly suspect.

When faced with giving away a piece of royalty.......or blocking all used game sales entirely......it is a easy choice to make IMO.

This is great news because it makes used game sales income go back into the industry, rather then just benefit the retailer.


All they had to do was ask for a cut of each used game sold and the problem could have been solved that easy



crissindahouse on 24 May 2013

hope that will improve the financial situation of developers and publishers. most of them lose money or only have a very tiny profit. even ubisoft has only a very small profit margin with their huge hits. they only would have to fail one time with asscreed sales and they would lose more money in one year as they made the last 5 years together. and a company like take 2 lost money last financial year even with games like borderlands 2...