I was fairly excited for Battlefront 2 before all of the info regarding it's loot-boxes and micro transactions came out. I absolutely despise whenever games implement micro transactions, even if they are cosmetic. I feel buying games that contain any of these features ultimately encourages developers to focus on these rather than optimizing their game and delivering a truly great experience. All of this information is fairly obvious... but I've been contemplating whether it's more ethical to buy these games used from Gamestop. A used sale from any store sees none of the profit go to the original publisher of the game. Unfortunately, these stores implement some truly disgusting practices when it comes to the treatment of their employees in order to achieve used game sales. Gamestop is most famous for the 'Circle of Life' which usually forces employees to lie in order to sell used games, reward cards, etc. That's not even mentioning the extremely high quotas employees are expected to fill along with employees having to work on holidays like Thanksgiving. If you were put into a situation where you were forced to buy a game like Battlefront 2, how would you buy it? On one hand, you would be encouraging business practices that see game publishers put less effort in to their core game and focus primarily on alternate ways to extract money from the consumer. On the other, you would be supporting the ideas of Gamestop by encouraging them to shove incredibly high demands on to their employees and treat them poorly in general. Micro transactions seem like a very controversial topic here.... so I'm interested to see how this turns out.

I don't mind Micro transactions so New games.

Used game can be 1 day old so used games.

But you would be supporting the awful business practices of companies like Gamestop. 

For Nintendo and Bethesda, and a few other publishers, I buy new. I mostly vote with my wallet if I like what one of the major publishers is doing.

Otherwise, I buy used and give the money to the original owner (eBay).

EDIT: I know it's not a perfect fit, but I cover something similar in my newest YT video. See my sig for the link!

eBay is a very good option. The reason I didn't put it on the poll was because it's a lot more moral than the other 2 options.

Well used games means no money for the devs, but new games means money for them and MT's means money for the pubs/devs, so I'd rather go for new games.

Do development teams get paid based on the sales of the game or is it an already set amount?

I have yet to have a problem with micro-transactions. Most of the time they don't effect me at all. As long as that's the case, I'm perfectly happy that some rich kids are giving more money to the developers so they can stay in business and I can get more games to play.

New games without microtransactions.