@snaketus @Blodbad_DK My point was, that if you pay attention, the game is only hard, not ridiculously so. Honestly, it's not that bad.
If the reviewer had explored the areas and talked to the NPC's (and payed attention), read descriptions of items and stats (and payed attention), maybe even just considered that he must've missed something. The game would not punish him so harshly.
When the publishers make the games harder to sell used, they are in fact discouraging buying new because the people who sell their used copies are also the ones buying the new ones and they wont have the money to do so if they are effectively prevented from selling unused games. While GameStop may make money the publishers won't see a dime of, some of the money from used game sales stay in the loop to be spent on (new) games. The publishers are getting greedy, and I think they will loose from it.
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