Publishers Frustrated With Second-Hand Sales

Via Joystiq, a look at MCV into the increasing frustration publishers have with second-hand game sales. From the article: "As pressure has increased this year on sell-through and pricing of new releases, so games publishers have become more sensitive about the size of the pre-owned market - which is believed to be worth as much as £50m a year to leading chain GAME and possibly £100m across the market as a whole. Publishers have agreed to discuss privately what action may be possible to stop the trend, either under the auspices of trade body ELSPA or simply via legal protection." We've already reported on Epic VP Mark Rein's opinion on reselling games.

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Re:Morons.

[Stardate]

But put themselves in your position: do YOU really want to do work? I hate work, like whazzisname in Office Space. Well, I don't HATE it actually, i kind of like it.. but then again I spent 3/5 days administrating Unix/Linux servers, and only 2/5 doing Windows. :)

in any case if i won the lottery i'd still never go to work. Everyone working at these game companies must feel the same way..