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Shut Up. We're Talking #69
Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:07:07 +0000 [download/play]
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'Used Games' by gothwalk
Submitted on 2010-09-02 08:51:40 CST
One for Darren - if your brother is going to play Dragon Age on XBox 360, he's going to have to buy it used. I've just finished a long, long process of contacting every retailer I could reach here in Dublin, and finding that nobody has the new product in stock any more - nor can they order it.
'Resells, OK. First purchase content, OK. Just know what you are buying.' by Teviko
Submitted on 2010-09-02 20:32:29 CST
I have no problem with the concept of reselling games. If I have a physical product in my hand that I paid for, I should be able to do what I wish with that physical product, including re-sell it. The prospect that used game sales should be illegal because the developer doesn't get a cut is absurd. If that were true, then all second hand sales should be illegal for the same reason: used cars, yard sales, ebay, consignment shops, Goodwill, etc.
Game developers offering one time incentives, such as additional content, as part of the first sale price is smart, and I'm okay with that. They've found a way to live with the practice of reselling and make some money off of it for themselves. I would suspect that game reselling was one of the motivations behind companies offering DLC. They may only sell a single copy of a game once, but they can potentially sell the DLC for that individual copy multiple times as it moves from owner to owner.
The trick for the second hand game buyer is to know exactly what he is buying, and that requires a little more research. Is the price he is paying really a bargain? If that game included first purchase content, it's possible that the discounted cost of the used game plus the cost of buying the additional content separately would amount to more money than if he just bought the game new. In fact, that was crux of the Game Stop lawsuit earlier this year.
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/107/1079852p1.html