GameStop Wants to Sell Used Digital Games

[Drakey]

snipping

On the first one.

You dont understand what is meant by service. You have no right of ownership over services. Everything you are saying there is just hot Air. You have no right to sign over your lease. You need to get that you dont own the services. Once you get that then you will understand that your claims of "i can just sign it over".
Entertainment has worked like this for ages. And I cant just sign over my life time ticket to Legoland just because went there last week.

Secondly.
You are pulling info out of your ass again. Games fail all the time because they dont hit the mark. Heavy rain and Enslaved: Odyssey to the West just to mention 2 of the top of my head. You idea that they make is back in the first week is idiotic at best, and with no understanding of the reality of game making.

Also your asinine statement of you can make

pooperloads of what we want to keep to the grave

was just as fucking stupid when Jim Sterling said it. Good games end up getting resold more than bad games. Mention any game you think is "take to the grave quality" and ill find you a copy in the used market.

3rd
How can you not spot the irnoy of your complaints? They are greedy for being able to treat THEIR PROPERTY the way they want, but when you insist that you CAN OWN IT you are just defending as your rights?
How about a little more self awareness?
Can I force you to sell your house? Then you are greedy!
Your logic is fun.

Also : http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/118771-Wil-Wheaton-Announces-Dont-Be-a-Dick-Day

 

[MPerce]

Well, for starters, I would have to own a digital game, rather than just have it rented out to me, right?
Because as of now, none of us (in the US, anyway) actually own our games if they are digital...

 

[Deadyawn]

I don't usually think that anything that is being considered as a possible business venture by an established corporation is outright dumb but...I don't think I can call it anything else. This is dumb, plain and simple. There is no concievable way that this would work without creating even bigger problems than it solves.

I'm sorry, but unless someone can provide me with a compelling argument to the contrary this is going straight to the bottom of my stupid ideas pile.

 

[Fasckira]

Its not 2nd hand/used sales at all, simply reselling your license to the game. Someone decides to "trade" their game in? Just expire their license on whatever digital distribution platform they're using, freeing up a spare key in a large list of available keys GameStop would have.

Anyone whos used in any kind of multiple user license agreement will know exactly how it works (best example would be the MSDN license keys Microsoft dishes out).

I do like the idea that I could somehow get credit/cash back on a digital purchase if I know Im never going to play it again, but they may as well drop the pretence that its 2nd hand/used sales. Thats just clinging on to an old idea for the sake of familiarity.

 

[Epona]

I think what people don't see is that this is really no different than getting a physical disc without a case or manual at Gamestop. The disc itself has no value, it's the data on the disc that matters and since it's digital, it either works or it doesn't, there is no gray area.

You are now left with a scratched disc that doesn't work or a disc that works. Since a scratched disc can be returned for a working one (or a refund), that makes a used disc exactly the same as a digital download.

 

[Something Amyss]

My issue is with GameStop not the retail market.

The problem is, one greatly impacts the other.

Maybe if gamestop was the only retail store but its not. Not only that but Gamestop is the worst priced out of all retail and online stores like amazon/ebay. If gamestop crashed it wouldn't be that big of a loss at all.

It's not the only retail but it's a freaking giant, and more comprehensive than all but the etailers. Etail is a different issue and still has nothing to do with the prevalence of brick and mortar stores.

But it really wouldn't affect most PC gamers at all.

Oh, well then. I stand corrected.