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EA: Second-Hand Games a "Critical Situation"

Electronic Arts considers second-hand game sales a "critical situation" reports GamesIndustry.biz in a bit of from an interview with EA's Jens Uwe Intat that will published in its entirety tomorrow. According to Intat, senior VP and general manager for European publishing at EA, the publisher is experimenting with a number of different business models to combat the problem of the same game being sold and resold to different users. He points out that games have a unique problem compared to most other goods sold on secondary markets because they do not degrade with use. To address this, he says: "What we're trying to do is build business models that are more and more online-supported with additional services and additional content that you get online. So people will see the value in not just getting that physical disc to play at home alone, but actually playing those games online and paying for them."

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47. Re: Aug 28, 2008, 20:20 Verno
 
Ativision and Konami are certainly in the black...as were Vivendi/Blizzard before the merger.

Activision did indeed make $52mil, so theres one. Konami made $5mil if I'm reading this Japanese income statement correctly. Vivendi traditionally loses money and Blizzard is what keeps them solvent. Of course Activision/Blizzard are the same company now anyways.

So we've got two so far, certainly a far cry from the "record profits" he was talking about



Now, what publishers are recording these record profits?

Hmmm, let's see ... Nintendo looks happy. And Activision looks happy. Even Ubisoft looks happy. They are all making good profits, despite of the evil of used game sales. How does used game sales screw them? Ohhh, perhaps it's all about potential losses, if only everyone had bought new games instead of used games? Yes, if only ... i would be Overlord of Earth!

I don't see Ubisoft financials for 2007 anywhere, going back previously years they lost money by the way. Obviously you're inferring what you want to here. It doesn't really matter what EA said, you'd twist it somehow. You seem more interested in making sure EA looks bad as opposed to the ramifications this stuff has on the industry.

The difference between you and me is that I don't care about EA at all, so I don't let it affect my judgement. I don't see EA in the news and automatically leap to troll them. You apparently have some stake in bashing on them, I have no clue why. They're just a faceless company man.

As for Gamestop not being the issue, they are exactly the issue. Gamestop and big resellers like it are the entire reason this discussion is taking place.
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