Crysis dev backtracks on blocking used games comment...

Funny this is what he said: "My comment made in the interview released on the 24th of April, touching upon 'blocking sales of used games,' was not intended to be taken seriously nor representative of the opinion of Crytek," Hojengaard told the site.

Who agrees with him? Did you agree with him initially? Hypocrite enough?

Link.

Obviously used games hurts the industry... just like pirating.

He's right 100%; if you buy used games you're stealing from future game budgets.

He's not a hypocrite, he's a pansie for not sticking to the truth.

yeah, he better backtrack. honestly didn't care anyways, crytek games are trash.

Obviously used games hurts the industry... just like pirating.haberman13

LOL, no, they don't.

Obviously used games hurts the industry... just like pirating.

He's right 100%; if you buy used games you're stealing from future game budgets.

He's not a hypocrite, he's a pansie for not sticking to the truth.

haberman13

Help whoever you like, hurt everyone else.

I thought that's the basis of capitalism?
Or are we trying to save everyone nowadays because of economical fear?

[QUOTE="haberman13"]Obviously used games hurts the industry... just like pirating.Shinobi120

LOL, no, they don't.

please, let's not go through this again.

The bottom line is that people choose what benifits them. If I was rich and involved with a coorporation, I'd probably be a republican. If I was a game dev, I'd probably despise the idea of used games.. If I were a software dev, I'd be totally for licensing. As a consumer, I feel that used games should be acceptable because we've bartered our posessions since the dawn of civilization. Not until recently did we embrace the individualistic idea of "I'll just buy a fresh one."

At the same time, I understand that a game dev wants profit. We can't really complain because we have no say in what they do. They're perfectly within their rights to ATTEMPT TO limit the playability of a game to only the original customer. They can do whatever they want and charge whatever they want, but I don't believe that they can LEGALLY try to propose this sort of contract with a physical disk. It violates our concept of a free market IMO.

They can attempt all they want to implement methods of eliminating game trade, but it should be legally acceptable to bypass this as long as the original owner clearly loses the ownership/experience of the game while the new owner claims it.

I think the only way to kill the used game market is the offer games as a downloadable alternative.

Hard Drives would have to be huge next gen.

Obviously used games hurts the industry... just like pirating.

He's right 100%; if you buy used games you're stealing from future game budgets.

He's not a hypocrite, he's a pansie for not sticking to the truth.

haberman13

You're an *****

[QUOTE="Shinobi120"]

[QUOTE="haberman13"]Obviously used games hurts the industry... just like pirating.lazerface216

LOL, no, they don't.

please, let's not go through this again.

You really want developers to have total capitalism on the gaming industry by trying to be rid of the used gaming market? It will NOT be good for all of us.

So he is a puppet to to the man? Heil68

Could be. He probably pissed off the big boys at Crytek.

[QUOTE="Zeviander"]"Oh sh!t, people didn't like what I had to say, I better make it seem as if I wasn't being serious!" I hate hypocrites. At least stand your ground if that's what you believe is true.freedomfreak

He probably saw it in the consumer's point of view and actually regrets it.....

[spoiler] I in no way believe he regrets saying that.... It's just a thought. >_> [/spoiler]

[QUOTE="Heil68"]So he is a puppet to to the man? DeadMan1290

Could be. He probably pissed off the big boys at Crytek.

[QUOTE="freedomfreak"][QUOTE="Zeviander"]"Oh sh!t, people didn't like what I had to say, I better make it seem as if I wasn't being serious!" I hate hypocrites. At least stand your ground if that's what you believe is true.DeadMan1290

He probably saw it in the consumer's point of view and actually regrets it.....

I in no way believe he regrets saying that.... It's just a thought. >_>

lol and yet again Crytek does something wrong to annoy people. Seems like he said it and saw what all the gamers had to say and thought "Sh!t maybe I shouldn't have said that, you know Iz just kiddin rite"

Obviously used games hurts the industry... just like pirating.

He's right 100%; if you buy used games you're stealing from future game budgets.

He's not a hypocrite, he's a pansie for not sticking to the truth.

haberman13

Used games takes money away from the publishers more than anyone. Devs get the funding to make the game in the first place and use that money to make the game and get paid by the publishers.

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[QUOTE="Shinobi120"]

LOL, no, they don't.

Shinobi120

please, let's not go through this again.

You really want developers to have total capitalism on the gaming industry by trying to be rid of the used gaming market? It will NOT be good for all of us.

You sound like a pirate.

[QUOTE="Shinobi120"]

[QUOTE="lazerface216"]

please, let's not go through this again.slimjimbadboy

You really want developers to have total capitalism on the gaming industry by trying to be rid of the used gaming market? It will NOT be good for all of us.

You sound like a pirate.

So defending consumer's rights like buying used games is considered a pirate? You're an idiot.

Plus I've never pirated a game before in my life.

[QUOTE="haberman13"]Obviously used games hurts the industry... just like pirating.Shinobi120

LOL, no, they don't.

[QUOTE="Shinobi120"]

[QUOTE="haberman13"]Obviously used games hurts the industry... just like pirating.markop2003

LOL, no, they don't.

I rarely buy used games, but LOL at this comment.

Guess what? Publishers have already gotten paid by shipping copies of games to retailers, even if you do buy games new! Whatever you buy games new or used doesn't even matter, because you're giving money to Gamestop anyways. Plus publishers don't exactly get the full $60 off of each new copy being sold.

But keep believing the myth that publishers are suffering because of used games. There's absolutely no proof of that.

At least stand your ground if that's what you believe is true.Zeviander

[QUOTE="haberman13"]

Obviously used games hurts the industry... just like pirating.

He's right 100%; if you buy used games you're stealing from future game budgets.

He's not a hypocrite, he's a pansie for not sticking to the truth.

4dr1el

You're an *****

Used games takes money away from the publishers more than anyone. Devs get the funding to make the game in the first place and use that money to make the game and get paid by the publishers.seanmcloughlin

[QUOTE="slimjimbadboy"]

You sound like a pirate.

Shinobi120

So defending consumer's rights like buying used games is considered a pirate? You're an idiot.

Plus I've never pirated a game before in my life.

You sound like the union rep willing to bankrupt the factory to make sure its employees get the best current outcome and keep said factory from being competitive in the market.

What about the rise in cost in development? How many studios went under this gen?

Will people like you continue to b*tch about all the DLC being released to recoupe the precious dollar?

"Oh sh!t, people didn't like what I had to say, I better make it seem as if I wasn't being serious!"

I hate hypocrites. At least stand your ground if that's what you believe is true.Zeviander

Yep.

[QUOTE="haberman13"]

Obviously used games hurts the industry... just like pirating.

He's right 100%; if you buy used games you're stealing from future game budgets.

He's not a hypocrite, he's a pansie for not sticking to the truth.

seanmcloughlin

Used games takes money away from the publishers more than anyone. Devs get the funding to make the game in the first place and use that money to make the game and get paid by the publishers.

And when publishers make more money ... the devs get more money for future projects.

When publishers make less money they shrink budgets.

Obviously used games hurts the industry... just like pirating.

He's right 100%; if you buy used games you're stealing from future game budgets.

He's not a hypocrite, he's a pansie for not sticking to the truth.

haberman13

Pirating hurts the industry a lot more than used games, it takes 1 person to DL -insert game title- to a site to be DLed by hundreds of thousands of people for free, if a thousand people want to buy a game used, a thousand people have to buy it new. Used games still hurt to a degree, but not any lvl of pirating.

Pirating hurts the industry a lot more than used gamesBallroompirate

[QUOTE="Shinobi120"]

[QUOTE="slimjimbadboy"]

You sound like a pirate.

slimjimbadboy

So defending consumer's rights like buying used games is considered a pirate? You're an idiot.

Plus I've never pirated a game before in my life.

You sound like the union rep willing to bankrupt the factory to make sure its employees get the best current outcome and keep said factory from being competitive in the market.

What about the rise in cost in development? How many studios went under this gen?

Will people like you continue to b*tch about all the DLC being released to recoup the precious dollar?

Please. You don't know nothing about business, nor do you know anything about me.

The main reason why development costs keep rising at such a dramatic state is because top publishers are fighting off in a spending war. Cram more stuff into the game, make the game look pretty, & hire a massive amount of people to develop the game in a year or two.

The PC has more powerful hardware yet development costs are cheaper on PC than on consoles. Why is that? Not the full fault of more powerful hardware.

Sure hardware can increase development costs by we also get more efficient tools as well.

Just something to thinking before jumping into the "More Powerful Hardware = Higher Development Costs" argument. The main culprit is the top dog business tactic many publishers follow.

The main series Call of Duty games cost around $40 million to develop and that looks like turd. If you don't think that blocking used games isn't about greed &/or capitalism, then I have a swamp land in Florida that I like to sell to you.

[QUOTE="Ballroompirate"]Pirating hurts the industry a lot more than used gamesZeviander

[QUOTE="alexside1"]Than your everyday common thief hurts nothing, because there is no intent to buy it in the first place. Does that make sense to you?Zeviander

F****king knew it. You change your argument.

You argue that there is no lost sale, because there is no intent to buy it in the first. I show the absurdty of this argument by using an real-life analogy.

Than you revert to shematics argument, as a poor comeback to my analogy.

Try again.

F****king knew it. You change your argument. You argue that there is no lost sale, because there is no intent to buy it in the first. I show the absurdty of this argument by using an real-life analogy. Than you revert to shematics argument, as a poor comeback to my analogy. Try again.alexside1

[QUOTE="alexside1"]F****king knew it. You change your argument. You argue that there is no lost sale, because there is no intent to buy it in the first. I show the absurdty of this argument by using an real-life analogy. Than you revert to shematics argument, as a poor comeback to my analogy. Try again.Zeviander

You were arguing that there is no lost sale, because there is no intent of buying it.

The point of the analogy is to show the absurdly of this argument, because your every day commonthieves have no intent to of buying it. Yet a lost sale occurs when they stole somethings. I'm not equating thief to piracy.

The conclusion of piracy not harming the industry based on intent is fallacious, because itignore the possibility of people having the cash to purchase the item instead use criminal means simply because they can get away with the criminal act.

If shoplifter can get away with their shoplifting, I can bet that there will be an increase of shoplifting.

Sorry if I seem to snap at you. I have a stressful day so far.

[QUOTE="Zeviander"][QUOTE="Ballroompirate"]Pirating hurts the industry a lot more than used gamesalexside1

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They just nned to find a better way for used games sale so that both us gamers and devs make money off of the profit.

[QUOTE="Ballroompirate"]Pirating hurts the industry a lot more than used gamesZeviander

you're an idiot on so many lvls. If steam just gave away games for free they wouldn't make any profit unless they had ads or something. Piracy is basically handing out free copies of games and movies without any profitable money income.

you know how much money cdprojekt would have made if they had even half of the cost of all those witcher 2 games that got pirated (which was like 4.5 million copies that got pirated).