If You Resell Your Used Games, the Terrorists Win 423
MojoKid writes "Game designer Richard Browne has come out swinging in favor of the rumored antipiracy features in the next-gen PlayStation Orbis and Xbox Durango. 'The real cost of used games is the damage that is being wrought on the creativity and variety of games available to the consumer,' Browne writes. Browne's comments echo those of influential programmer and Raspberry Pi developer David Braben, who wrote last month that '...pre-owned has really killed core games. It's killing single player games in particular, because they will get pre-owned, and it means your day one sales are it, making them super high risk.' Both Browne and Braben conflate hating GameStop (a thoroughly reasonable life choice) with the supposed evils of the used games market. Braben goes so far as to claim that used games are actually responsible for high game prices and that 'prices would have come down long ago if the industry was getting a share of the resells.' Amazingly, no game publishers have stepped forward to publicly pledge themselves to lower game prices in exchange for a cut of used game sales. Publishers are hammering Gamestop (and recruiting developers to do the same) because it's easier than admitting that the current system is fundamentally broken."
Re:used or bust (Score:5, Funny)
I borrow my games from the library. Fuck em all.
Re:Ever bought a used car? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:So.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So.... (Score:5, Funny)
Interesting tidbit: The argument that piracy funds terrorism is based on the idea that terrorists sell counterfeit CDs and DVDs to raise money. The thing is, all of those people have pretty much been put out of business by The Pirate Bay and co., because nobody is going to pay actual money for a pirated DVD when it's free on the internet.
In other words, internet piracy fights terrorism.
Re:used or bust (Score:5, Funny)
So... one might say that you were boycotting DRM games.
Re:used or bust (Score:3, Funny)
I think just owning a Sony product makes you a terrorist.
Re:Pondering games... (Score:5, Funny)
People who where 14 and wanted the top 10 games just got a paper route and bought them.
Ah, the good old days. I remember I had to deliver the morning paper for three weeks before I was able to afford Paperboy...
Re:So.... (Score:2, Funny)
Fuckin internet.