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Re: PCGA on Piracy's Benefits

Feb 13, 2009, 14:24

Ruffiana

I still maintain that DRM is not about curbing piracy -- it's about completely abolishing the second-hand market. The 2nd hand market is as damaging to the developers and publishers as piracy. A game is only worth the experience of playing it. The physical media can be infinitely duplicated, distributed, shared, traded...but the experience of playing the game is the only commodity with any value. By having a reseller step in and intercept they're taking the money directly from the customer and keeping it for themselves. Not only do the developers and publishers not receive money from a legitimate user who's willing to pay money for a game experience, but the reseller is even taking less money then said customer would normally pay. That whole cycle can be repeated multiple times. The individual customers get a huge discount on their entertainment expenses (first from a reduced 'used' game purchase, then a refund when they resell it), the reseller gets all of the profits, and the developers/publishers end up with nadda.

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