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Ars Technica - Buying used games: Developers, publishers don't care about you. Thanks Mark.
That's a bold statement, as gamers hate to be called pirates—and they will pirate your game in retaliation for being called pirates—but in both cases, the people behind the game aren't making any money from the sale. If you take the game online you're using their time and money. So where's the argument that developers need to keep these people happy?
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This formula is responsible for movies of varying degrees of commercial success, though from a critic's perspective, they’re typically considered awful-to-middling films. For every Resident Evil -- arguably the only video game movie that stands on its own without much need to know the subject material -- we get several Uwe Boll movies and countless other generally bad adaptations. Most video game movies either go for broke on the game’s subject matter (Mortal Kombat, Prince of Persia) or try to adapt that same subject matter into something more filmlike (Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, almost every Uwe Boll movie). But few of them are able to strike a balance that will resonate with fans and interest the general movie-going audience alike.
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Sepharo wrote on Aug 28, 2010, 15:46: ... but just know that when they buy used they're supporting GameStop (or the seller) not the developer who actually made the game.... I don't think anyone is unaware of that - again, it works the same throughout our system for nearly every used purchase. When you buy something used, only the seller of that used good (cd, book, dvd, car, house, etc) is receiving your money. I would think this would be "how the world works 101" for everyone above the age of 10. Anyone unaware of this for games is also unaware of this for everything else used.
Sepharo wrote on Aug 28, 2010, 15:46: ...So once again we come down to morality is subjective... Exactly - for one person buying used in this market is bad, but not these others. It's a personal decision to be altruistic here, but selfish there. We're on the same page here. |
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