Too many people really believe what companies such as EA, Ubisoft and Activision are saying at face value without thinking... Hmmm is there an alternate motive behind this statement?
Used games have been common place in the game industry since the cartridge days and they've only just discovered that they are hurting the industry during this generation? Do you not possibly think that since this is the first widely online generation, the first generation where it has been possible to lock out content depending on whether you enter a code. Do you think companies might not be burning the straw man of used gaming, not because it's a legitimate threat, but because they can?
Publishers have spied a way of squeezing extra pennies out of players (or so they think) by blocking and they have to make reasonable excuses as to why they are taking away a consumer right. The right to sell your own property. Yes, the publisher may own the IP and thats not what I'm selling, I'm selling access to it, which, at this time, is physical.
If the used game industry was such a blight on the entire thing, companies such as EA, wouldn't be going to store such as Gamestop, and making deals for content which can only be bought from Gamestop. Also when I do delve into the used game market at certain points, the cashier will try and sell me on an upcoming product.
"Hey here's a list of games coming out in the next few months. Any of them interest you?"
And I ended up pre-ordering a copy of Deadpool.
Also destroying the used game market will not improve anything. If a person can't afford to buy a game new, then they still can't when the cheaper alternative is gone. They will wait for sales, and as far as I know when games go on sale, most major retailers have money back clauses in the event they have to drop the price to shift some units.
I don't quite understand how people think people passing on games is a continuous process either. It's not like there is going to be this endless chain of people waiting to get this one single copy. Besides if after ten people have completed the game, ten people pass it on, it's probably not worth the money is it?
Which brings me to my final point for the time being. Worth my money. In the end game companies are out to make money. This is not a free pass to getting my money. They have to earn it from me. If they haven't done enough to make me part from my hard earned cash then that is their failing, not mine.
It's becoming harder and harder to decipher what games are worth it anymore. The lack of demos, misleading footage and overall poor PR from these companies don't fill me with the confidence and optimism I used to have when buying new games.
Right I'm getting off my soapbox..... now.
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