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Buy Second-Hand Games, Stifle Creativity?
Thanks to GameSpot for its 'GameSpotting' editorial discussing why buying second-hand games could have a negative effect on videogame creators. The author points out: "You know, Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft must have a real love/hate relationship with stores that stock used games alongside their new games [since buying used games doesn't give] the game developers, or the game publishers a thin, red cent. Instead, the retailer is enjoying a nice, fat profit margin, where the markup is in the neighborhood of 200 to 1000 percent." He goes on to argue: "Buying used is equivalent to the game not selling at all in the eyes of developers and publishers, and when games don't sell, they don't get sequels and excellent concepts and, therefore, opportunities are lost."
used books, used cars, used houses...all of that creativity stifled!
No shit. Next thing you know Nintendo will be trying to shut down second-hand game stores. Then people will just trade games instead of selling them, so the big N will have to hire a vigilante force to stalk the suburbs, looking for spotty gits trying to score a copy of Metroid Prime.
Karma: It's all a bunch of tree-huggin' hippy crap!
Just think of the loss of incentive the carmakers have to produce new cars, and sequels of last year's model, when people would rather buy a used car than a new one! And those that sell used cars, those are the most immoral! They make a living destroying the new car industry!