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Re: Op Ed

Apr 23, 2012, 18:23

Kabuto

Jerykk wrote on Apr 23, 2012, 12:30: You're still arguing legality and not practical results. Once again, nobody is disputing that people are allowed to buy and sell used games. However, when used games are bought and sold, neither the developer or publisher sees compensation. Whether or not they deserve to see compensation is another matter entirely, but the fact remains that they don't see any. Same thing applies to piracy. I see the problem here. You want to argue the single used game transaction and ignore the larger picture. You want to ignore that the original "new" buyer almost certainly factored in their ability to resell the game at a later time before making their purchase. You want to pretend that the money received by selling their game will not recirculate into the game industry and will only be used on preowned games. You want to ignore that each and every time a used copy of a game is sold it gives publishers the ability to up sell a new customer on high margin DLC. You have to take a pretty narrow point of view to equate piracy and used game sales.

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