Well it just hit home today with what EA was actually doing. A local resaler of video game whom I my constant business to said today that they probably wouldn't take any used copies of madden 11. I usually buy most of my games from there b/c of the nice little discount that I get b/c I am the owner's son friend. I stopped by today just to see what they had in stock and we struck up a converstation about why EA would do this. It seems that we are getting less and less of a product each year from the game companies. Pretty soon what they are going to do is start charging $60+ for a game that has less work put in it than what we are getting now. If you are like me then you can afford one maybe two brand new games a year. This year my purchase of RDR and Halo Reach are the only two NEW games that I will be able to purchase. Gaming is an expensive hoddy, I know, but that still doesn't mean the big gaming companies need to continue to "stick it to" the consumers. You don't see the authors of books marking up the prices for used books. Just becasue they aren't getting any resale value off thier games is pretty outrageous. This almost has made me sick. Well thats my ran until next time.