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Why Game Developers Should Shut Up About Used Games
Ssquared22 writes "It may feel like a rip-off to some, but you've got to admit that paying $30 for Gears of War 2 sure beats paying $60! Game publishers and developers may not like it, but people are going to trade in used games for new games and those old games will be sold back to other people. There's nothing game developers can do to stop them, and companies like Gamestop continue to laugh all the way to the bank. In an article at Crispy Gamer, David Thomas dissects one of the most critical issues in gaming today: used games and merchants (online and brick-and-mortar) who specialize in this 'sleight of hand.'"
Paying NOTHING for something that would cost $50 is a much more rewarding feeling.
>is James Madison, aka "Father of the Bill of Rights".
So you suppose the respectable "Father of the bill of rights" has codified into the US constitution a law that criminalizes literally millions and millions of otherwise righteous US citizens threathening every single one of them literally with life long bankruptcy if they refuse to abstain from information sharing with each other? Either you're wrong, or the father of the bill of rights was a lunatic. (I think I'd rather place my bet that you're just wrong.)
>I'd say you should pick your parallels better.
I'd say that anyone (be it the holy father of the bill or rights, even if rather unprobable in this case) who deliberately would fsck up the lives of millions of people, and threaten them with lifelong bankruptcy and in order to force them to abstain from DIY-something in order to create a artificial market for this DIY is indeed a lunatic on the scale of Lenin/Stalin/Mao, who all were similarily willing to destroy and mass punish millions of their own fellow countrymen in order to force them to accept a economy/business model.
What is happening is the uniqueness in games are long gone. They are all much the same and variants of each other, making replay ability and obviously keeping the game no longer as desirable. So buy a new game, plays somewhat similar as an older one in your game library, which tends to kill of the replay ability of the older title so you dump it, either lend it out, trade it, give it away or sell it.
Just like any other non consumable, when you don't need it or want it any more, you get rid of it. It really is only sheer greed by all mass media corporations, who are attempting to steal, your investment in the purchase from you, simple common theft and fraud. That they would talk publicly about it with out getting promptly investigated by government consumer protections organisations shows how much those organisations have been corrupted in the last decade.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
So when I'm bored with a game, you expect me to give it to you? Fuck off.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."