Well... damn Jim! Right after making a giant comment totally ripping on you... you completely change my opinion about you in every way with these two most recent videos. Not a perfect show, but wow, I'm REALLY liking this!
Translation:SatansBestBuddy said:My only real problem with used games is that GameStop is now running the entire commercial used games market, and their practices are influencing every other business to keep pace with them rather than compete simply because nobody can compete with them.
I'm thinking back on the time I tried to trade in about 15 games to a pawn shop and they offered me $40 for the lot because they checked GameStop's trade-in prices and that's what GameStop would have given me, in cash, for those games. (store credit would have been a little more but I wasn't selling those games for more games, I was selling for cash)
That's not even getting into what GameStop does in it's own stores, so really the only reasonable used game market is a peer-to-peer one, which is easier thanks to eBay but still lacking when it comes to paying for something and having it the same day. (or avoiding scams)
I have plenty of other reasons to be mad at GameStop, but yeah, other pawn shops are totally at fault for using GameStop to determine trade in value and that makes me mad.Crono1973 said:Translation:
"I am upset that Gamestop has been so successful that other shops use Gamestops pricing schemes to determine how much they will give for and sell a game for".
Maybe you should be mad at the other shops, not Gamestop.
They will start with restricting multiplayer and sooner or later, you will be putting in a code to play single player, just like PC's and then the used market will go away.Roman Monaghan said:On the one hand, EA =/= > evil then Gamestop just because they do the same thing. It in fact means EA = gamestop in evilness. The argument that bitching about one evil company is wrong just because another evil company is just as evil is ridiculous.
On the other hand, yeah, fuck EA.
Mostly though I kinda just have to laugh. I hate online multiplayer, I never use it unless it's a unique experience like AC: B or Red Dead, and even then only for a few days at most. So I laugh at your little multiplayer lovers who end up getting jibbed by stuff like 10 buck DLC for used when it's a bunk experience in the first place. Tee hee hee.
You wanna show devs that ten buck pass or whatever it's called is BS? Play an online game that doesnt make you pay for it used, like Halo or something. Tell them what you want with your wallets, cuz showing them they are right by shilling out the money while grumbling under your breath isn't gonna change anything.
Some people just don't want to look at the long picture they just want to see the right this very moment.ghost whistler said:No one.
No one is being hurt by used sales. Used sales have been part of the industry since the start.
Used sales do not represent a lost new sale.
But they do underpin the primary market.
If you want shot of used sales, kiss your hobby goodbye.
I guess turkeys really do vote for Christmas.
Problem with just voting with your wallet is if you take a step by yourself towards the society you want, it's not enough. You do have to complain, with reasoned, rational arguments in order to help other people understand the world you're voting for is one worth living in, otherwise all you can do is feel smug about yourself while reality runs off.AntonMTL said:Stop complaining and vote with your wallet. That is the way true democracy and capitalism works.
Terrible argument? You're one to talk. How the **** are you supposed to know whether you hate a game? I've had plenty of times where my intuition failed me, and I either bought a complete piece of crap, or passed up a masterpiece. Unless you're some sort of omnipotent being, in which case, you must be pretty easily amused to still be playing games.Hitchmeister said:Terrible terrible argument. "I can waste as much money as I want on crap games, thereby encouraging publisher to keep making even worse games, because I can turn around and resell them to some other sucker who will also hate it. It doesn't matter how bad games get because of the lemming-like churn of money to be made off cycle bad games around the toilet of current gaming."
Show a little self-control and don't give publishers your money for games you hate and you won't need to be able to resell them to to the next poor sod.
But don't cry because you're too stupid to recognize crap after being sold it repeatedly. And don't blame the publishers for thinking that what you really want is more of the same crap you've resold time and time again. They can't hear you over the piles of your money they're busy counting.