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HotHardware - If You Resell Your Used Games, The Terrorists Win. Thanks Ant via Slashdot.
Both Browne and Braben conflate hating GameStop (a thoroughly reasonable life choice) with the supposed evils of the used games market. Braben goes so far as to claim that used games are actually responsible for high game prices and that "prices would have come down long ago if the industry was getting a share of the resells." Amazingly, no game publishers have stepped forward to publicly pledge themselves to lower game prices in exchange for a cut of used game sales.
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Re: Op Ed |
Apr 25, 2012, 13:42 |
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Legality and reality couldn't be more opposite. Reality doesn't respect your rights. Reality doesn't care about what you're entitled to. Lock yourself in a cage with an angry bear and see how much he cares about the Constitution
And that's relevant how, exactly? I don't seem to remember claiming used sales were in the Constitution.
You're neglecting the fact that stores are supposed to distribute products, not use them. That's why stores exist. That's why publishers sell them product in bulk at low prices. Stores are not supposed to use products and then resell them. Well, I think GameStop actually does that with the used games they stock but they aren't supposed to do it with new ones. When a publisher sells a batch of games to a store, they do it with the understanding that those copies will then be sold, unopened, directly to customers. Once all those copies have been sold, retailers are supposed to order more copies from the publisher. If retailers keep reselling the same copies over and over, this doesn't happen.
What does "supposed to" have to do with anything? You haven't disproven my original assertion, you've just argued that it's acceptable. Ok, right, publishers accept that stores sell the "used" copy that the publisher sells them, but dislikes it when they sell the "used" copy that someone else sells them. Why is that anyone other than the publisher's problem? |
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