I live in a developing nation and work to provide for myself.
The used game market exists to serve the need people like myself have. I -need- to be able to play video games affordably; it isn't so much that I have a lack of self-control in that games are a part of my monthly budget, but it's something I spend on because it makes me happy. Happiness shouldn't have to cost an arm and a leg.
[–] jasotastic ago
If people weren't allowed to trade in games, most of us (with less disposable income) would find ourselves sticking to games in the same franchise that we like. We wouldn't necessarily have the ability to take a risk on something like Shadow of the Colossus. So, we'd end up missing out on some REALLY great games. Of course, that affects the publishers by causing those smaller experimental games to take a bigger chunk out of their budget with lower ROI.
I don't mind spending money on Star Ocean and maybe not liking it if I can fall back on a GameStop, GameXchange, etc. to purchase it from me and recoup a little of my cost towards another game.
All in all, I think we, the consumer, suffer the most if trade-ins were not available in their current form.
[–] therocktor ago
Honestly, I'm in favor of the sale of used games for reasons unrelated to whether they harm or hurt the industry. According to my (limited) understanding of the First Sale Doctrine, copyrighted material can be resold if it was originally purchased legally. I think it's a great thing because games make their way into libraries and in game stores for cheap, where more people have access to them. Yeah, it sucks that game shops get 100% of the profit for something they had no hand in creating, but that's just how the law works. The creators got the profit from their original sale, and after that, they have no say in how their product is sold. They got paid, story ends. And really, what do a lot of people do after they trade their games in to stores? They buy new ones.
As a consumer I go for whatever is cheaper. For the few disk based games I buy almost all of them are used. I think what publisher/devs are doing now is trying the games as a service route. They try to nickle and dime us on dlc to try to get consumers to keep there games while milking them for money. I wish they would just release good games with quality dlc to persuade us to keep the game. For example if Witcher 3 sucked and I owned it on disk I would've sold it after beating it and not waited for the new dlc or kept it for a 2nd/3rd play through. (small tangent) I wish game keys were treated like game disks were after playing a game through steam/origin/uplay/gog whatever, that I could just sell the key to someone else and have it removed from my library.
[–] TeemoVexenGuy ago
Pft what peasant buys used gaems anyway when u have pc master racer with all the cheep gaems
[–] Slothking ago
Used games good.
The only thing that i hate about digital distribution.