Buy Second-Hand Games, Stifle Creativity?

Posted by simoniker on Monday May 31, 2004 @06:08PM from the or-something-like-that dept.

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."

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IAWTP by MORTAR_COMBAT! · 2004-06-01 01:11 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Voting Nader is obviously not voting "not Bush.".

yet another AC with a brain. nice. you might enjoy The Fork in the Road: A Political Morality Play in One Act over on K5.

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