That's a shame. I was gone for about a week and looking forward to an intelligent response but instead I get greeted with a rhetoric post. I love how
I am the one not listening to reason when I already answered all of those points in the very quote you posted. I just made it through a 5 hour road trip looking forward to this, so, this is gonna happen.
Yopaz said:
OK, so I know this might be ahrd for you to understand, but get this. I said in my post, quite directly that I did not call anyone who buys used games thieves. Quote me wherever I said that and win a price. I dare you to.
Watch this.
Men who play sports tend to be more socially active and thus are more likely to have success in dating.
Men who play video games tend to be less socially active and thus have a hard time expressing themselves to women.
Quote me exactly where I said being a gamer means you are bad with women.
THAT is what you are doing.
If we had no publishers and no developers, would GameStop exist?
Well, since my previous answer in the post you quoted was probably too in depth and we are deciding to ignore it, I would say - Probably. They could sell ONLY used games and undercut publishers even more. Way to think inside the box.
EDIT: Actually, unless you mean "ever" then, Maybe. Gamestop did sell DvDs for a while. But then again, those need publishers I think. So yeah, if ALL media didn't have publishers there wouldn't be a demand for retail outlets for it because the industries wouldn't exist. Just like all publishers need a retailer or an outlet. Oh wait, this might be getting too in-depth as I am starting to look at it from both sides. Of course, one could also self publish and utilize a retailer. But then again that creates a "publisher" of sorts. Oh what silly rules this question poses, almost like it is co-dependent relationship. We could break this down to a publisher, developer, distributor, retailer level if we need to. For someone being so literal about the "Quote me" thing you are being very figurative and assumptive in your other arguments.
Used game sales cut into sales records no matter what great example you and your friend set. No money to the publishers wont turn into money to the publisher in any world. Loss of sales might lead to games not getting sequels. This is not just the case of bad games.
That is such a loaded statement. There is a LOT of assumption going on there. Hell, it is practically seeping out of the statement. The ONLY statement that isn't loaded with assumption is sentence #2.
Now because you wont listen to reason I wont care to write an elaborate post with several arguments for my case.
I actually, somehow, totally believe that you believe that.