GameStop is A-Okay With DLC

[vegalord]

i know what you mean man. This is going to suck hard for us. Oh well at least there are some independent game stores i can always go to.

 

[FloodOne]

QQ more.

All of you who say you'll stop gaming because of this, you're lying to us as well as yourselves.

I fully support what these pubs are doing, more money for devs and pubs equals more cash for game development.

 

[addeB]

Ehh, Gamestop can't sell online passes can they? Or do they mean that people will buy a used game and then by point cards from gamestop to pay for the online pass?

 

[Callate]

Ah, well. I'm sure Gamestop will do the right thing and lower their prices on used games further in proportion to the lessened utility the consumer is getting from the used product!

Look, mummy! Purple flying horses!

 

[BehattedWanderer]

So are they setting it up where we have to buy our DLC from GameStop? I'm not in line with this. Though, if it does go off, I'm gonna nab some GameStop stock, and return some of my expenditure.

 

[arcticphoenix95]

Terrific!

Everyone wins except the costumer. These nutjobs assume they are generating this money between themselves but the consumers do! What kind of bullshit is this? Are they forgeting their audience?

no, of course not........they just don't care what they think, AT ALL.

 

[DaOysterboy]

what's a convo ?

So far I know, it's a abbrevation for "Conversation". Correct me if I am wrong.

That's what I thought too. Convention maybe?

 

[Woe Is You]

Everyone wins except the costumer.

I'm pretty sure the costumer got a hefty sum from the emperor.

i.e. he wins too.

Bad joke, I know.

 

[FloodOne]

Terrific!

Everyone wins except the costumer. These nutjobs assume they are generating this money between themselves but the consumers do! What kind of bullshit is this? Are they forgeting their audience?

They know their audience will continue to purchase videogames.

So no, they most certainly are not forgetting who their audience is.

 

[Scrythe]

I don't know why, but that is the most disturbing image of GameStop I've ever seen. Can't really figure out what's so unsettling about it, though...

 

[James Raynor]

DLC scheme is full of fail it seems.

 

[DTWolfwood]

Everyone have fail to realize that while use games give them a big profit margin per game sold, the vast majority of their revenue still comes from selling NEW games <.<

Kinda came to that realization when standing in line to pick up red dead redemption when you see that 3 out of ever 4 customers were buying new. so yeah 25% sales (From my extremely tiny sample size) is still pretty damn good. But the company didn't get to where it is only selling Used games.

By encouraging new games to be bought your not hurting Gamestop your just shifting their profits to new game sales. In doing so doesn't everyone(publishers and retailer) win?

Gamestop doesn't win because when they sell a new game, more than 50% of the profit goes to the game publisher and developers (Gamestop buys games from the publishers and sells it at higher prices so that they can make profit, that is how the economy works). When they sell a used game, 100% of the profit goes to Gamestop. Also Gamestop has said that they can make up to 9 times the profit by selling the same used game over and over again. SO basically they can make just as much or even more profit by selling the used version of a game as opposed to the new version.

On another note, this article doesn't actually tell me HOW the $10 plan gives games longer life-spans. All it tells me is that Gamestop sells DLC. Are they unaware that there won't be a middleman involved in the selling of these "online passes"? (If a middleman does become involved, it kinda defeats the purpose of the developer trying to make profit off of used games)

How does making a game inaccessible to ANYONE in the future give a game a longer lifespan? Won't this limit the lifespan to when the developer stops supporting it? There are plenty a game that no longer have developer support and yet they still thrive in gaming culture because of their replay value.

Read the Bold u n00b. if your making $30 per game on new and your making $45 on used and your total sales are 75% new and 25% used, you make more money on new games; O M G what a shocker! So explain to me how making ppl buy more new games is a bad thing to Gamestop?

 

[DTWolfwood]

...sorry double posted from my craptacular laggy internet connect >.<

 

[JEBWrench]

Wrong. EA is starting to go with DLC that is required to play online. Just a matter of time until other devs follow suit. Not to mention that much of your typical DLC is stuff that was supposed to be included in the original game to begin with.

So, people have to pay EA to play their games on EA servers?

PERISH THE THOUGHT!

 

[Eldarion]

Great, so everyone wins except the customer. Who is being forced into buying new products for the first time in gaming history. I can't imagine what would happen if any other industry tried the same BS. "Oh, you're buying a USED car? Well you'll have to pay an additional $2,000 for the doors."

Except that most DLC is just extras you don't need to play the game. This is more like saying "Here is a new car, for an extra 100$ we will throw in a GPS system."

Wrong. EA is starting to go with DLC that is required to play online. Just a matter of time until other devs follow suit. Not to mention that much of your typical DLC is stuff that was supposed to be included in the original game to begin with.

Well that sucks. I guess your right then, I forgot about EA there for a sec.

 

[afaceforradio]

Yeesh, they should just outlaw second hand sales if they're going to kick up so much of a stink about it. I will admit, games I REALLY want, I tend to buy new, pre-ordered even. But some games (and let's face it, the majority of games aren't that great given how many there are whether we have heard of them or not) are just not worth the £40 I'd fork out happily for one I can be sure will be great.

It's bad enough we have to pay for online gaming (yeah I know that's just 360 but still, it happens) and then of course the games, THEN the DLC, now they want to charge us extra because we didn't pay extra for the new copy?

We may as well buy the new copy in most cases, which brings me back to my original point.

Money-grabbing A-Holes.