Do you actually believe what you said?

Here's my take:

Wholesale costs on games and machines are way too high. Stores like Walmart and Gamespot sell those games for 5 dollars more than they pay for them. Thing is, they are stuck with the sucky games, and it's pretty much an impossibility to make money off of the used market, due to the high costs of development, and/or publishers standards, which seem unfair to retailers.

Of course, publishers want to cut out retailers. They want to force people to pay full price for their games, and they want to sell more copies.

It's not greed, that makes a public entity want to make more profit at the expense of an industry designed to help them distribute their merchandise.

However, it is greed when a single person wants to do so, at the expense of the consumers, just to spite said distributor.

Jaffe is a huge douche, and he always will be. There is no denying that.

In this case, he just so happens to have turned his douchatude towards your wallet, and can't wait until you have to shell out full price for his block-puzzle DMC clones or his Mario Kart ripoffs.

I wouldn't take a game with his name on it, if it had a 20 dollar bill inside the case.

I've always said that though, this is nothing new for me.

Look at my edit to the last post. It is not poor business. It is proper business having specific sectors of the industry do what they are supposed to do.

Ah, but that is the fault of the publisher, they can continue to add things to the game to make them playable, more maps mission, etc.

People return fantastic products all the time. Like you said, quality is subjective. Just because one person doesn't like it, doesn't make it a bad product. A game like Super Mario Galaxy is still amazing no matter what your mom thinks about it. Why should Nintendo be punished because some people don't like it? Nintendo should be punished for releasing a fantastic product? Again, they can't appeal to everyone. They shouldn't lose money because of that. If we all lived in a perfect world and consumers were never ignorant, than we wouldn't have this problem in the first place. Used games wouldn't exist. I know you probably don't know this (since you're a Nintendo fan), but there are these things called downloadable demos. There are demos you can download from online stores, demos you can play in stores, and demos you can buy with other games. Developers and publishers send review copies to be reviewed so you get a general idea of the game's quality. Publishers put brief descriptions of the gameplay and general workings of the game on the back of the box. What more do you what them to do? Your argument is flawed, because you believe developers should be punished no matter what a game is like. Look, if a person buy a games and returns it, the developer has already been punished. That person won't be buying any more of their products (most likely). By putting the game up for used, the developer loses another sale, which is just rubbing salt on the wound. That's what is not fair.

but they aren't doing what they are supposed to, which is why people are selling their games

And that fact alone makes all of your other (sometimes rational) arguments invalid in my mind.

Two things.

A. The vast majority of this topic isn't about returning games you've accidently purchased. That should be illegal. Amazon doesn't even allow it(and I didn't think Walmart did either, anymore). It's about reselling games you've beaten, which you should be allowed to do, imo. Especially with the high prices for retail games. This is not the PC market. Sony is NOT steam, and Jaffe would keep his shit full price for eternity, if he could, knowing his ego.

B. Even I've bought a few games that I regretted. It happens sometimes, no matter how much research you do. I didn't return them, but I did resell them. Why should I have 5000 dollars worth of games on my shelf, when the gaming industry is charging 60 dollars a pop, and I know I'll never play them again. You don't get a good return for your investment on most games. Period. I can't justify paying 20 dollars an hour to play a videogame. It's rediculious, and now Activision wants to raise it. Used games are good for the industry, and I doubt DLC will take over as quickly as Jaffe seems to hope.

Actually, he's explicitly said numerous times that game prices are currently way too high.

That's why I let you know. Not the biggest Jaffe fan here.

That said, most people in this thread are for or against jaffe in one way or another, they just aren't honest enough to tell you about it.