People sell things with diminishing satisfaction, and whyshouldn't games be expected to give endless replayability, many games retain their value for years and people hold on to them, just like with many movies and books, these are the iconic games the ones that rereleased years later and people talk nostolgically about, and just like with games, there are used book sales and used movie sales, and yet no one cuts the writers or directors in on those sales, why should game devs be cut in on the used sales?

Because that would kill the industry as people stopped buying new games. Perfect replayability would cripple new sales. I am not surprised you avoided my last post directed at you though. Any evidence yet, or are you still just making it up as you go along?

Actually i responded to your post already, but I lknow readng is hard fo you.

Also it wouldn't cripple new games sales, it would cripple used game sales, new games would still be bought, but people would hold onto their games

You typed a bunch of words after my post, but you did not respond to it. You addressed nothing I said.

There are X number of hours per day one can game in. If all video game are infinitely replayable then after so many games are bought X is filled permanently. If new games come in and knock old ones off then they are not being played, and thus are more valuable in the form of cash to buy the new games you are using to fill time X. Holding onto a game just to say you have it is something for collectors to do, and they are not close to the majority of the population.

Actually I addressed everything you said, as I pointed out why people sell their games, because of how its value has diminished, you just didn't like how it disproved your argument.

Ah but you see that makes some false assumptions, first you assume that the number of people playing games would not grow, since as we've seen the majority of the world's population does not game, even if the number of games each person bought was reduced, games with wider appeal and eternal replayability, would draw in much larger audiences, more than making up for sales, secondly you assume that people will play the same games every day, even games with high replayability do not get played everyday, so bringing in new games would only result in the older games being played more sporadically, people would still play them but just not as often, a few times a month or a year, like with books and movies, I have books that I have owned for many years, and maybe read once every couple of years over, but I still buy new ones, in addition game consoles tend to be updated, so older consoles tend to get played less, I play my old nes games every now and then.  Collectors are different than people who keep something around becuase they like it and know that they will use it again, I am not a movie collector, but I have a bucn of old movies that I like that I keep around becauser I know that there will probably come a day that I want to watch them again, because I loved them the first time and know i'll enjoy seeing them again.

It disproved what argument? The one where I asked for evidence of your assertions? That is an easy argument to disprove. Sadly you still have not backed up one of your claims with any evidence.

I didn't bother reading your long winded explanation because, quite frankly, you just make shit up as it suits your needs half the time. Skimming it I see you avoid my statements directly, so I am going to bottom line it. If a game is still being replayed it eat up a certain amount of gaming time. Once all that gaming time is filled no new games would be bought. It is as simple as that. Once it gets pushed out then it has no value as a game. Address this point directly rather than dancing around it, and I will consider giving you a new response.

Technically I’m not going to argue one way or the other as I believe to a certain extent both views are correct. What I will chime in with is the obvious prevalence/accessibility of used-game sales that doesn’t affect the other industries as much, that have been called in as analogies for comparisons sake.

As MakingMusic has already stated there aren’t any other organised world-wide franchises at the retailer level, giving incentives on used-item purchases/sales, on a product that by-in large has no value/performance degradation (not personal), taking up the majority of shelf space, all at the same store selling the 'new' item.

The problem is that it is awful once you work there and see whats going on around you. We just can not change what they do. No one store can ever effect what the corparation does. I have worked there for a little over a year now. The problem is that every single person at my store is a hardcore super video game fanatatic. We love our games, all games, and we love our customers for giving us a job. We see the problem that has been in this post we have see them in every single post about gamestop in every single message board. There is not a single fucking thing any of us can do. The only person that has a chance to even sugjest a change is the District or Area Suppervisor, but those people are souless corprate gread demons with no real knowlage of what is happening around them. Ok not ALL DMs are demons but mine is. :D YAY 

Anyways getting back to the point. We hear every single complaint, every comment, every diss, every word about the hate for Gamestop, and for the policys. There is just nuthing we can do, and at least for me it hurts and IM SORRY! My store does the best we can to bend rules, be helpfull, and understand the customers. We actually fucking try unlike most Gamestops! Its a shame really, maybe if more employes understood there customers, and more customers understood the employes we whould never have these disscusions. I understand the frustration of $5 bucks of a almost new game, and we only payed maybe $30 total if that in trade. We need people to understand that not only is it garenteed to work or you get a new copy and we have to lose money because we took it back, but you buying that used copy is the ONLY reason we are in business or we have a job. We only get $5 on new games and systems as profit... THATS BULL SHIT!! No company could every stay in business if all they made was that little of profit. Well unless we sold the games from the back of someones car.. ROFL.

My point is please try and understand your local employes at gamestop, we are just trying to make a living doing something we LOVE! Maybe you can help all of us understand what small things we can do for you. Slowly the company might change to help support growth, instead of making the customers feel like just $$.

I know it's not the majority of the employees' fault, I was just poking fun at MM (it's awesome, you should try it!)

Still, though, nobody's forcing you to work at GameStop, and if you really strongly disagree with anything, nothing stops you from walking out, right?

WOW, nice way to stick words in people's mouths. Look it's simple, we want to be entertained by the game. If it doesn;t do that, we sell it or leave it on the shelf. You somehow think that we are so rude to the developer becuase we did not enjoy the game.

I have no respect for anyone who can't make an entertaining product. That is the point of videogames. That's the reason I buy them. If they can't make entertaining software, then they are in the wrong business.