the game industry is feeling the same pain the major labels started to feel in the 90s.
awwww......let me get them a kleenex.
damn, when my album came out, thousands of copies were given away, copies that came out of MY POCKET, not the labels.
and now that i am "out of print", i buy all the cheap used copies i can.
95% of them have been "promos", identified buy the cutout or punched UPC code.
so what is the gaming industry to do? lie down and die?
MAKE GREAT GAMES and you'll sell a new one.
but you can't stop Gamestop from selling used ones.
and the record labels were never able to stop used CD sales either. even though a great deal of them were promos, sent out to journalists and radio people, who would then take HUGE STACKS of them to used stores, unlistened to most times, and simply trade them for CDs they really wanted.
that's how it goes.....bleh.
when is the government gonna bail ME out? shit, my student loans are eating me alive. i guess that's my penance for having a liberal arts degree.
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the game industry is feeling the same pain the major labels started to feel in the 90s. awwww......let me get them a kleenex. damn, when my album came out, thousands of copies were given away, copies that came out of MY POCKET, not the labels. and now that i am "out of print", i buy all the cheap used copies i can. 95% of them have been "promos", identified buy the cutout or punched UPC code. so what is the gaming industry to do? lie down and die? MAKE GREAT GAMES and you'll sell a new one. but you can't stop Gamestop from selling used ones. and the record labels were never able to stop used CD sales either. even though a great deal of them were promos, sent out to journalists and radio people, who would then take HUGE STACKS of them to used stores, unlistened to most times, and simply trade them for CDs they really wanted. that's how it goes.....bleh. when is the government gonna bail ME out? shit, my student loans are eating me alive. i guess that's my penance for having a liberal arts degree.