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GameStop Used Game Lawsuit

[Mar 26, 2010, 11:42 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

A lawsuit has been filed in the Northern District of California against GameStop, citing deceptive practices relating to used game sales. IGN has details on the suit, which stems from a customer buying a used copy of Dragon Age: Origins with the belief that additional DLC was available for free based on the cover blurb. Of course this DLC is part of the new trend intended to impede used-game sales, which the customer learned when they tried to get the DLC, which set them back an additional $15.00, making their final purchase price for the used game $10.00 more than the cost of a brand-new copy (that sound you hear is EA execs exchanging high-fives). IGN has a copy of the complaint in Adobe Acrobat-format, and an article on this on Gamasutra offers thoughts from an analyst saying that GameStop will probably be able to remedy this problem by affixing stickers to used games clarifying DLC availability.

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Re: GameStop Used Game Lawsuit

Mar 26, 2010, 21:41

Ruffiana

Because they are getting $15 instead of $0, and because the whole point of that $15 was to make buying used games less appealing to consumers and less profitable to resellers, which this case proves is working exactly as planned. Once this becomes better known, instead of charging $55 for a game they paid $25 for, they won't be able to sell it for more than $40. That cuts Gamestop's profit in half. Gamestop either accepts this and the reduction in profits, or they pay significantly less for used copies, making consumers less willing to sell. They don't want to make a profit on used games. They want to cripple the used game market. But it's okay for Gamestop to 'buy' a game for $20-$25, and turn around and 'resell' it for $50 pocketing $25-30 every time? It's somehow noble for Gamestop to want to make a profit off of someone else's work without those people seeing a dime. People really surprise me sometimes. They're willing to save themselves $5 and completely screw the people making the game for them, and if those people have the audacity to want to make some money from every person that plays their game...they're greedy assholes.

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