I hope piracy makes up for the diminishing used game market you hate so much, Obsidian.
I'm going to do what I can to avoid paying for a new copy, how do you like them apples? I'll make sure to buy used whenever possible (the same effect as piracy according to them) just because I love to hear you developers whine like a *****. Anything to keep money from going to developers that forget they were gamers once and treat customers like criminals and suckers to shake upside down for their loose change.
There's no big developer/publisher worth supporting anymore or any that make me care if they lose money from piracy, used games, or negative reviews they always cry about.
Kopikatsu said:
You're wrong. The video game industry says that you're wrong, and the law agrees that you're wrong. If you don't like their business practices, don't buy video games anymore. That's how capitalism works. You aren't allowed to have your cake and eat it too. This is why boycotts fail, because people don't understand that. Besides, it's not like they keep the fact that you're only paying for a license to use the system a secret. The last two letters in EULA stand for 'licensing agreement'.
For all the hot air about piracy and used games, people in the industry are remarkably prone to telling people to fuck off if they don't like it, as though the industry doesn't mind losing a customer anywhere near as much as they mind not being able to force people to give them money.
We're supposed to have sympathy for them too, even though by their own arguments they deserve to die off. Piracy and used games are killing the market, but the response to any legitimate complaint is to stop buying games if we don?t like it. If people act rationally and refuse to throw the baby out with the bathwater and download a game or buy used, we?re killing them. What would they rather have us do? "Talk with our wallets" and not play the games at all, and certainly don?t buy them. Which would also kill the industry, but that?s somehow the more moral solution. Either way the industry is basically daring us to kill it.
Most people are talking with their wallets, which is why the market is shrinking. And what message does the industry take from that? That they should do something different? Nope. The message is that they should simply move to consoles due to a shrinking market they surely can?t be responsible for. So even when we do follow the "moral" way, nothing changes. So the decision, from our view, is between "No Games, Dead Industry" and "Used/Pirated Games, Dead Industry".
In other words, if the industry isn?t going to get the message no matter what we do and is going to die either way, why should we care? Should I feel sorry for Ken Levine not getting paid for a good game? Nope. The industry doesn?t care about fucking us over in the name of unproven piracy damages and losses to a used market, so I don?t see why we should care if a few decent developers get crushed in the name of taking down an industry that could not possibly care less about doing proper business with us.
BTW It IS your property, and the courts have almost always thrown out EULAs for being too far-reaching. There's no other industry that allows a company to claim ownership or rights to more money after initial sale. Cars, TVs, and any other product can be purchased and resold without manufacturers crying like babies about not getting more money when their customer resells a used product.