Wal-Mart Starts Selling Used Games Online

[samsonguy920]

Let the used game price wars begin! Stores, fight fairly and keep everything above the belt. But do underprice each other often and frequently. (Ya right, Gamestop is gonna think the Walmart thing is a fluke and won't last, so they won't bother competing. This Christmas will tell how it goes.) Stay Tuned, Escapists!

 

[Low Key]

The more competition GameStop has, the better, even if it is another evil conglomerate.

Welcome to the party Walmart. I hope you weren't planning on staying long, because especially since you have joined the party, and further cut developers off from cash, it's pretty much guaranteed that Digital Distribution will cut you out of the equation very quickly.

Digital distribution will only mean more pirating. Grab a game online, throw it on a thumb drive, and load it onto the system. At least with discs, people have to mod their system which voids the warranty and is detectable during online play.

 

[Xanadu84]

The more competition GameStop has, the better, even if it is another evil conglomerate.

Welcome to the party Walmart. I hope you weren't planning on staying long, because especially since you have joined the party, and further cut developers off from cash, it's pretty much guaranteed that Digital Distribution will cut you out of the equation very quickly.

Digital distribution will only mean more pirating. Grab a game online, throw it on a thumb drive, and load it onto the system. At least with discs, people have to mod their system which voids the warranty and is detectable during online play.

I doubt this. It's a lot easier to make a copy of a disc then it is to mess around with the software on your console. Unless a company shows a flagrant disregard for there profits, then Digital Distribution will be just as well protected as traditional. Which is to say, both will be pirated the day they are released, if not earlier. Games will be pirated. If a company makes purchasing and playing a game easier, like by giving a digital distribution option, then consumers will be less likely to pirate.

 

[Irishhoodlum]

Well since it's Walmart there's no possible chance I'll be using it. Not that it matters, I don't use Gamestop either (Amazon ftw!).

 

[Low Key]

I doubt this. It's a lot easier to make a copy of a disc then it is to mess around with the software on your console. Unless a company shows a flagrant disregard for there profits, then Digital Distribution will be just as well protected as traditional. Which is to say, both will be pirated the day they are released, if not earlier. Games will be pirated. If a company makes purchasing and playing a game easier, like by giving a digital distribution option, then consumers will be less likely to pirate.

People who pirate games will always pirate games.

 

[Vlane]

First post!!! I hope lol

Don't. Do. This.

OT- Ah, the monopoly begins =3

lol do what? the first post? lol sorry I've always wanted to do that.

Don't make a habit of it. It is not tolerated here.

But other than that, you are forgiven =p

Never. Forgive.

Especially when it comes to "first" posts.

 

[USSR]

First post!!! I hope lol

Don't. Do. This.

OT- Ah, the monopoly begins =3

lol do what? the first post? lol sorry I've always wanted to do that.

Don't make a habit of it. It is not tolerated here.

But other than that, you are forgiven =p

Never. Forgive.

Especially when it comes to "first" posts.

By "forgiven", I meant probation.

Not a ban, yet =p