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Used Game Market Affecting Price, Quality of New Titles
Gamasutra is running a feature discussing the used game market with various developers and analysts. The point has been raised by many members of the industry that used game sales are hurting developers and publishers even more lately, when they're already beleaguered by rising piracy rates and a struggling economy. Atari executives recently commented that used game sales are "extremely painful," while GameStop's CEO unsurprisingly came out in support of resales. We've recently discussed a few of the ways game designers are considering to limit used game sales. David Braben, chairman of UK-based developer Frontier Development had this to say: "Five years ago, a great game would have sold for a longer period of time than for a bad game — which was essentially our incentive to make great games. But no longer. Now publishers and developers just see revenue the initial few weeks regardless of the game's quality and then gamers start buying used copies which generates money that goes into GameStop's pocket, nobody else's."
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The same could be said for cars, and yet look what Obama's about to do.
The new American businessmodel : don't sell to clients. Don't even produce and have the government pay your profits.
Clearly Japanese cars are turning a profit (and not a small one, given the office Toyota just erected near the airport).
Therefore the American car firms are clearly doing something horribly wrong. If they go bankrupt their expertise, workers and facilities would go over in hands of people who are more efficient than they are.
That seems to me, a good thing. Keeping the firms artificially alive seems to me a horrible idiocy.
Heh, we all knew Obama was for sale, he accepted more petrodollars in one campaign than Bush did in his entire life. I guess democrats like to be deceived. Same goes for RIAA dollars.
I don't get democratic slashdotters. It was beyond obvious that Obama wasn't our friend before the election. How exactly do you guys think ? "Ooh, shiny website !" ?