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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 22, 2012, 05:15

Kajetan

NKD wrote on Apr 21, 2012, 20:06: 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. Dont find it arkward when the customer has to support a flawed business model?

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Comment [quote="Kajetan"Apr 22, 2012, 05:15][quote="NKD"Apr 21, 2012, 20:06]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] Dont find it arkward when the customer has to support a flawed business model? [/quote]

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