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Op Ed

[Apr 21, 2012, 1:38 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

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 21, 2012, 20:06

NKD

You're better off pirating the game than buying it used from GameStop. Either way the developer doesn't see a cent, and if you pirate, you're not supporting GameStop's vampiric business practices.

Also I'm a bit confused about people bitching about game prices like they are out of control. Even at $60, games are cheaper than they were 10, 20 years ago, adjusted for inflation.

Read this.

Another thing that comes to mind: If you're one of those people who waits for a sale or buys used, that's fine, and smart, but keep in mind that if you're doing that for developers you really like, you're effectively doing nothing to contribute to their survival in the current environment. At that point your support is worth little more than if you had simply pirated the title, because the decision about the future of the studio has already been decided.

If you want to support a developer in the mainstream market, you have to buy it new in the first couple weeks of release. It sucks that the industry is set up that way, but that's just the reality of it.

This comment was edited on Apr 21, 2012, 20:22.




If you don't like where gaming is heading, stop giving your money to the people who are taking it in that direction.

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Comment [quote="NKD"Apr 21, 2012, 20:06]You're better off pirating the game than buying it used from GameStop. Either way the developer doesn't see a cent, and if you pirate, you're not supporting GameStop's vampiric business practices. Also I'm a bit confused about people bitching about game prices like they are out of control. Even at $60, games are cheaper than they were 10, 20 years ago, adjusted for inflation. [url=http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/10/an-inconvenient-truth-game-prices-have-come-down-with-time.ars]Read this.[/url] Another thing that comes to mind: If you're one of those people who waits for a sale or buys used, that's fine, and smart, but keep in mind that if you're doing that for developers you really like, you're effectively doing nothing to contribute to their survival in the current environment. At that point your support is worth little more than if you had simply pirated the title, because the decision about the future of the studio has already been decided. If you want to support a developer in the mainstream market, you have to buy it new in the first couple weeks of release. It sucks that the industry is set up that way, but that's just the reality of it. [/quote]

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