The TRUTH About Used Games

The_A_Drain

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#51 Edited By The_A_Drain

What a complete load of utter bollocks, joke or not it's neither funny, intelligent, nor witty or insightful. Writer needs to go the fuck back to /b/ and stay there for all eternity.

14 years ago

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#52 Edited By lucas_kelly

The only problem I have with used games is when stores sell them for retail price.

14 years ago

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#53 Edited By Dovey

Quote: "In November of 2004, Susan Winters, who asked to remain anonymous"

Ummm... enough said, this blog is a joke.

14 years ago

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#54 Edited By Al3xand3r

Um, that was a joke. I guess. It's still a horrible piece (see my last comment), but yeah...

14 years ago

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#55 Edited By Player1

Maybe its way to early in the morning. And maybe I've only gotten a single digit number hours of sleep in the past 2 days. But I'm not finding this funny...at all.

In reality used games really is hurting the industry. It seems to me this guy is trying to make a mockery of that fact. Trying to make fun of people who think this is a big deal.

Sorry OP, but this really isn't funny. Hes trying way to hard.

14 years ago

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#56 Edited By Agnogenic_delete

@FiestaUnicorn said:

"
Am I the only person who can't stand Destructoid?
"

I can stand them but I get bored rather quickly.

14 years ago

Al3xand3r

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#57 Edited By Al3xand3r

@Player1 said:

" Maybe its way to early in the morning. And maybe I've only gotten a single digit number hours of sleep in the past 2 days. But I'm not finding this funny...at all.

In reality used games really is hurting the industry. It seems to me this guy is trying to make a mockery of that fact. Trying to make fun of people who think this is a big deal.

Sorry OP, but this really isn't funny. Hes trying way to hard.
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The industry has survived for decades with used sales as a mere fact. Slowly, they've managed to take that freedom from the consumer, many games are impossible to sell used or even rent nowadays (especially on PC), and you think that's a good thing? If their revenue hurts, it's other factors they should consider before taking your rights away, eventually making it so you don't even own a given game, merely licencing its use.

As a sort-of-solution, rental copies could be different to standard copies and more expensive, perhaps even requiring some sort of online activation, so that the store would have to regularly purchase more licences or something. That could provide a revenue source to the publishers, as nowadays stores merely pay for that 1 copy like a single consumer does and proceed to profit from it multiple times. For used sales, that could also require registration of some sort for the store, and a % of that money would go to the publisher/developer of the given game again, so that they at least gain a little something from it. It would be hard to check, sure, and it would have to be done with the government's approval as some sort of law should be passed requiring detailed records keeping for such stores. Whatever, I don't know how exactly it would work, but things can be done to both not take consumers' freedom and also relieve some of the publisher burden. That way I could still sell my used games to friends but if I want to open a store that does that sort of thing regularly I have to give something back per se.

I agree with the article's point, I just don't agree with the stupid way he says it and in that he doesn't offer alternative solutions to merely condemnding used sales as a whole. So, yeah, shitty piece, but not because it defends used sales. Everyone should.

14 years ago

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#58 Edited By penguindust

There were some pretty humorous lines in that piece. My favorites were...

A very real and threatening threat that threatens to threaten everything that we hold dear.

So-called "honest" businesses like GameStop are no different from child pornography rings...So, we've established that secondhand games are primarily bought by pedophiles.

We don't want to sound alarmist or sensationalist, but secondhand games are basically terrorism.

...she was found to be in possession of a number of secondhand games that she had bought for her son earlier in the day, most notably Shadow Hearts, God of War and Castle Crashers.

This was an entertaining bit of satire. Sure, it was over the top, but so what? This isn't Voltaire, it's about video games! Lighten up and enjoy the silliness.

14 years ago

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