I like Gamestop.......

No seriously, if they sell me ICO for $13 in good condition, how can I hate them?

I guess I'll have to start pirating games.

You should refuse to ever buy a used EA game. That'll show 'em.

they want you to rent or subscribe, its all about control, and they want you to have none.... all publishers do... enjoy a game, they would rather you pay a bit for it every month, then pay for it all at once

it's a nice idea in theory and may stop a small percentage of people from trading in (at least until they've played the 20 free songs to death anyway).

The best way imo to ensure a game doesn't get traded in / sold is to ensure it;s a great game with tons of replayability but they'll still be a percentage of people who trade in.

You cant sell games for £40 and aim so many of them at young teenagers / children and complain when they trade them in to offer them more choice more often. This may be why Nintendo's model works as they attract gamers of all ages and the older ones are less liely to trade in games.

And make the game to actually worth owning...

Dont really blame publishers for heading this way. In some ways the trade in market hurts publishers a little bit like piracy (with the exception of 1 person in each "trade in chain" actually buying the game).

Singly Player games are more likely to suffer though, games like Bioshock / Devil May Cry 4 / etc are more likely to get traded in as there is no ongoing multiplayer life in the game.

In my opinion it is just the retail companies getting greedy / too worried about the potential dominance of digital distribution in the future. There are already plenty of viable game rental services so i dont see why retailers cant hop on this bandwagon.

Er, they are 20 free songs given to the person that buys a new version of the game. If you buy it used then you dont get them, but oh well. They werent for you anways.

And the word is "you" not "u".

OT: Good for EA and Harmonix. Ive said it before and I'll say it again. I would rather give my money ot the people that made the game I wanted to buy, then spend 10 dollars less and give my money to a crappy organization like Gamestop and screw the developer. If this gets more people to buy the game new, good.

People just see the stupid 10 dollar discount and think its owed to them, not thinking that if they buy that game used then they arent giving the actual developer any money. Its basically legalized Piracy committed by the store chain.

One person buys the game, then gives it back to Gamestop for 10 bucks then they turn around and sell it for 50 dollars and the developer sees nothing of that.

I definitely wouldn't mind seeing gamestop knocked down a couple of notches. However i do think we should have some used games for the people that don't have the money to buy new games. And i hope this doesn't hurt gamefly too much cause they are a great service for anyone who enjoys games.

 ^This.

I usually buy my games brand new except it's a really old game with no  new copies available anywhere or the new copies are selling for atrocious prices (e.g valkyrie profile ps1) so I really don't care.