I have no problem with stores doing sales, but in the realm of video games, if the developer isn't seeing a return for each sale then I have a problem with that. They're are tons of people who contribute nothing back to the companies who spent all the money to make the games, and that's not how the system is suppose to work. Giving the publishers a cut of what EB makes on used games sales isn't going to close them down, adn it's fair.
thats the problem with your logic, the video game realm is not ****ing different from any business out there nor is it special. Which is probably the bumbest thought process I've ever read. tons of clothing/apparel are donated to the red cross and salvation army, does that mean the original manufactures should charge the person recieving the donated clothing? because afterall theyre not seeing a profit that tons of cheap labor help get made.
Yeah but your analogy was ****.
prove it.
Yeah thanks for stating the obvious, I mean you'd think some people didn't already know that or something by the way you're talking, but if you've read everything people have been saying n
o one showed that ignorance, so...
no one but you *****e. thats why my post was directed towards you.
Listing nothing but the conglomerate companies ftw? Oh yeah, the big publishers have money to keep them afloat, thanks for that shatteringly concise insight into the economics of the video game industry, t
ruely we are smarter for having listened to you.
no, just you. i saved whatever amount of brain cells you had left.
Well Atari's problem is more in cost control, but we're diverging here. If you only can cite Atari as an example of a company with Financial issues, then you don't really understand the scope of the issue.
really? are you a cost anaylst? have you seen there accounts? do you work for them?
"Hunh"? WTF?
Yeah because they've only been *****ing about it for a while, and Nintendo and Sony have only repeatedly tried to take the sale of used games sales to court over the past ten years. And all the companies
I'm talking about thzt ran into financial problems are either shut down, bought up. Y'know, following basic ecinomics of what happens when their games (particularly in the PC space) are pirated to hell, or sold used a ton with sales that would of otherwise been putting money back to the developer.
yet EA, Ubisoft, capcom, konami, have success....i wonder why? could it be because of thier best selling franchises? and for every company that goes out of busniess, another one pops up. if the used game industry is such a trouble maker why are more game development studios still popping up zenien?
A company either has what it takes to be successful or not,plain and simple. thats the risk of starting up a busniess zenien,not all companies are guarenteed success, and the gaming industry is no exception to that rule.
"Wah wah wah! I don't like the idea of used games sales having some monitored aspect that allows the companies that spent the money to get a return"
Either it could be a policy changes in the stores or it could be some form of much more open version of what Sony is suggesting.
And your comment about charging the stores and such for fees is exactly the avenue I was
alluding to Genius.
key word alluded, you by no means mentioned anything about it dumbass.
Sorry, did I offend you by saying "Oportunistic cheapskate"?
I mean that's so great of you to get pissed off at me using that terminology and going on this long rant about the nature of the price drop spuring sales with stores and retail and
thinking that I don't GET that? Ignoring for a moment that I wasn't argueing the validity of the price dropping tactic at all and that it's actually the context of the sales and the infastructure of the retail chain that ultimatetly decides the unseen 'morality' of consumer purchase.
oh no you did'nt offend me, i will continue to buy used games.
my problem is that you fail to even mention such info, when it comes to posting your ignorant posts, not only that but you actually contradicted yourself by posting such a comment. such as the one below
btw zenien congratulations on condradicting yourself, repeatedly you've been saying that you'll wait for the ps3 to drop in price....well are'nt you being an opportunistic cheapskate?..................oh the irony
