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It's amazing how ignorant some kids r these days. The big wigs have brain washed them well it seems. If you're going to adopt this mentality then never sell anything second hand ever again. Have a new computer and want to sell ur own....nope you are not kicking back to the billion dollar profiting company that made it. Have a car you better keep it til it's burger. Wouldn't want Honda to get their feelings hurt. This whole thought process is the worst slave mentality I've witnessed in my life.
PS I guess we should do away with pawn shops and used car dealerships too!
mudman91878
You're talking about other peoples ignorance and yet you don't even realize that the examples you're using as the basis for your argument aren't even applicable. Houses, cars, etc are not the same as digital content. Those things have a finite lifecycle and degrade over time. When you buy a car you purchase, essentially, all the miles that will be driven on this car (for example 200,000). If you sell it after 100,000, you're essentially selling the remaining 100,000 to somebody else. However, the car will eventually run out of miles (break down) and a new car will have to be purchased. Thus when you sell your car and someone buys it used, you aren't costing the dealership any money as eventually this car will be replaced with a new one. Same thing for houses and other products with finite lifecycles.Â
Now, digital content is, essentially, infinite in it's lifecycle. When you sell a game, someone else is buying something that has zero degradation to it, it's just as good as new and thus the original company loses a sale because the money for the used game gave went to someone else.
One new game can be purchased and resold 99 more times. Now 100 people have played the game and the company who made it only saw money from one of those sales.
Used games are a cancer to the console gaming industry, if you can't see this then you've failed to think things through.
I firmly believe that if the used games market were eliminated you'd see profits go up for those that make the games and the prices of games come down MUCH faster than they currently do. Just look at steam, developers love having their games go on sale because their profits skyrocket with the influx of revenue as a result of the increased sales.
This is business 101, it's sad so few can see it.
Games don't degrad in value? The hell you say! Well I have a copy of Super mario brothers to sell for 60 bucks! I promise I'll send 20 to nintendo. You r ridiculously weak minded. Dics degrade, graphics, sound quality, control mechanics tec etc become out date. You r either a paid troll or you're kidding yourself! I lol at your thought that prices will come down faster. With all that power in so few hands u think prices will get better hahaha. First of all that's shown in countless situations to be false. Not only that they want to do this to make MORE profits. You think they'll turn around and give it back? This isn't digital if they r selling me physical copies of something. DLC is a bit different but it's still not infinite. The system u use to access it will eventually breakdown or be replaced. in 10 years you expect to have all the DLC (games, moves, whatever) to be supported on the new system then. Guess what it won't. 
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