[QUOTE="darkspineslayer"][QUOTE="Ninja-Hippo"]100th used game thread and 100th time I'm laughing at all you plebs crying over having to pay full price like the rest of the grown ups.Ninja-HippoThere are viable arguments for the market. Putting the rather pompous "if you can't afford it, erhrmhermher" argument, what benefit is it if less people can afford to buy a game? I've spent the last five years before I got a job as a university student. I was as poor as it gets while keeping your electricity on. I lived on noodles. I still bought my favorite games day one for full price. It is not a matter of people not being able to afford games. It is a matter of people naturally buying the cheaper alternative, because why wouldn't you? But if games are becoming more and more expensive because they aren't selling enough copies to make the money back that went into developing them, surely stopping used games would result in higher sales of games at full price and as a result, the cost of games will come down. The net result will be that more people will buy games at full price, and games not worth full price will fail. The quality of games will improve, or at the very least, games offering less value for full-retail money will be retailed cheaper than they are right now. tl;dr everybody wins. Publishers make more money. Developers are less cash strapped. Games will end up better and cheaper. Your assuming a very candy and rainbows future in exchange for consumer rights, there. Your first assumption being that if a used copy is unattainable or impractical that they will inevitably buy used. If I had to pay $60 for every game I wanted to play, I would take a lot fewer chances on new IP. $60 is a lot of money and we have enough stagnation as it is. Their is a lot more wrong with AAA game development than used games. We live in a world with EA, and you think publishers would take the clue that their game isn't worth $60? Games improve? Developers would be even less inclined to take a risk than they are now, because customers would be less inclined as well.
No! Sony HeavyRain creator feels the industry will be better with no used games!
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