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Fable III Dev: Used Game Sales More Costly Than Piracy

Posted by Soulskill on from the granting-a-license-to-temporarily-rent dept.

eldavojohn writes "A developer working for Lionhead, the studio behind Fable III, told Eurogamer that piracy is 'less problematic' than used game sales, from a business perspective. Mike West, the lead combat designer for the latest Fable, said, 'For us it's probably a no-lose even with piracy as it is. But, as I say, second-hand sales cost us more in the long-run than piracy these days.' So downloading a game is bad, but apparently stopping by a second-hand store to pick up a licensed physical copy of the game ends up hurting them even more."

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  1. Re:"License" by gman003 · · Score: 3, Informative

    The judiciary actually does has enough power in the US to do this. In fact, several courts have ruled EULAs invalid (see in particular SoftMan v. Adobe, which ruled that software is sold, not licensed, although it did uphold license restrictions as valid).

  2. Waaaaaah. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    One person with a copy of the game per copy sold is fair. End of story.