Used Games are simply another form of Piracy (THQ joins EA to stop the used games market)

[Caurus]

My boyfriend works for the only games retailer in the UK and they make most of their profit from "pre-owned" games. Accessories are about the only thing they profit on apart from that. So if you want gaming shops to go out of business I suggest they go and do it. Won't do anything but dip your profit margin guys.

Exposure is important now too, gaming is getting more popular. Just look at all the female characters you can have now (ABOUT TIME!)
Plus if I spend £50 on a video game and want to lend it to my boyfriends little brother I think I should be able to.

 

[Tomany2]

if it is attached to your online profile, than you need to buy a new copy for each and every person on that console, and if it attached to the console, if the console stops working, there go all your games. either way, its a lose lose.

I imagine the idea is for it to be account based? Surely you just login as ur xbox live w/e and then you have the access you normally have.

Linking it to a console borders on illegal ^^ Honestly. Thats something worthy of rage.

I do agree, but if it is account linked, and you have... lets say... a brother, a sister, and a father all with separate XBL accounts, you would need to buy 4 games, one for each account.

Atleast, thats how I see it :|

 

[Sneaklemming]

if it is attached to your online profile, than you need to buy a new copy for each and every person on that console, and if it attached to the console, if the console stops working, there go all your games. either way, its a lose lose.

I imagine the idea is for it to be account based? Surely you just login as ur xbox live w/e and then you have the access you normally have.

Linking it to a console borders on illegal ^^ Honestly. Thats something worthy of rage.

I do agree, but if it is account linked, and you have... lets say... a brother, a sister, and a father all with separate XBL accounts, you would need to buy 4 games, one for each account.

Atleast, thats how I see it :|

Thats exactly correct. It is how steam works.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Why is it so hard to just agree that it's meant to be illegal and be done with it all instead of trying to cover it up with excuses?

Maybe if you used some Yoda-like phrasing?

My grammar is that bad, huh?

No but Yoda has a way of encapsulating concepts into short, mangled phrases.

 

[Sneaklemming]

Theres been an update, THQ have decided that used games are bad too.

It really easy for other companies now.

They have all the R&D and infrastructure - programming wise to put in CD keys. They have been doing it for years on the PC side.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

if it is attached to your online profile, than you need to buy a new copy for each and every person on that console, and if it attached to the console, if the console stops working, there go all your games. either way, its a lose lose.

I imagine the idea is for it to be account based? Surely you just login as ur xbox live w/e and then you have the access you normally have.

Linking it to a console borders on illegal ^^ Honestly. Thats something worthy of rage.

I do agree, but if it is account linked, and you have... lets say... a brother, a sister, and a father all with separate XBL accounts, you would need to buy 4 games, one for each account.

Atleast, thats how I see it :|

Thats exactly correct. It is how steam works.

not trying to be a douchebag, but it is different from steam, steam is much easier to put on multiple computers and you dont have the physical copies so technically you can have as many copies as you want, offline that is.

on xbox, if you move your profile from one xbox to another (without the same harddrive) then you are screwed and lose everything from that other hard drive, and its much more of a pain in the ass to do that, as they dont want people spamming across hard drives with multiple accounts.

 

[Eldarion]

It's not another form of Piracy.

Second hand marketing has been around for ages, and nobody has complained about them before. We have all been OK with second hand stores for clothing, buying used Television sets, flea markets, the works. But now, because video game publishers say it's hurting the industry, it's suddenly wrong?

Fuck no, it's not wrong.

If I'm tired of something I own, something I either can't get enjoyment out of, or something if it's something I want to replace with something better, should I simply have to throw that thing away? Why can't I make a profit and sell it to someone else who needs it? Am I a bad person for helping someone acquire something they want for an even cheaper price than at the store? No, I'm not. I'm a good person for giving someone that opportunity.

Nailed it on the head, Hub. And in my opinion, everyone who thinks otherwise is wrong. Dead wrong.

Seconded. The secondhand industry is perfectly legal on top of this. When you buy a video game, its yours do do what you want with it. Games are protected under the same free commerce laws as books and movies are.

I'll say it again, used games markets are perfectly moral and not even illegal.

 

[Sneaklemming]

It's not another form of Piracy.

Second hand marketing has been around for ages, and nobody has complained about them before. We have all been OK with second hand stores for clothing, buying used Television sets, flea markets, the works. But now, because video game publishers say it's hurting the industry, it's suddenly wrong?

Fuck no, it's not wrong.

If I'm tired of something I own, something I either can't get enjoyment out of, or something if it's something I want to replace with something better, should I simply have to throw that thing away? Why can't I make a profit and sell it to someone else who needs it? Am I a bad person for helping someone acquire something they want for an even cheaper price than at the store? No, I'm not. I'm a good person for giving someone that opportunity.

Nailed it on the head, Hub. And in my opinion, everyone who thinks otherwise is wrong. Dead wrong.

Seconded. The secondhand industry is perfectly legal on top of this. When you buy a video game, its yours do do what you want with it. Games are protected under the same free commerce laws as books and movies are.

I'll say it again, used games markets are perfectly moral and not even illegal.

Well it sure is legal, but the reasons that people give to trying to stamp out piracy are the same reasons that people are using to get rid of the used-games market.