Game companies really need to start rewarding there loyal customers, the more you buy the more discount you get on there future products, at the moment they charge an arm and a leg fill them with DRM and wonder why pirates/hackers pirate there products… They need to embrace the digital age like the Music Industry and get with the times, and reward there customer bases more instead of punishing them.

What about the used PC markets, they never pay anything back to the manufacturers. Then there’s the used CD market, used DVD market, and a plethora of other markets, some of them huge and hugely profitable, that don’t pay a thing back to the original publisher or manufacturer.

The problem isn’t the used games market, the problem is that there just isn’t as much of an incentive to buy new as there is to buy a game for $45 used when you’d pay $60 new. Tack on an extra %10 discount on used games for paying $30-$40 a year to be part of the “chain club”, and a “buy X games get one free”, and you could potentially save enough money buying used games to pay for another used game, or even a new game.

Gamers don’t have an infinite entertainment budget, and when you have a metric crap-ton of middle to high profile games coming out each year, they can A) Go into debt up to the stratosphere buying all of them new, B) buy a mix of new and used games, and even trade some games in towards the purchase of more games, or C) just buy a few games, and leave the rest unpurchased and unplayed.

The game industry complains that gamers act with a sense of entitlement, that we complain every time we have to pay a subscription fee, or for DLC, or for expansion packs, but the industry is just as bad, crying about used games, how piracy is the only other reason why they’re not making as much money as they “should”, ect, ect.

If they started giving us some real incentives to buy new games, and not just “if you don’t buy our game new, you’re going to have to pay $X to unlock multiplayer, or open up bonus content”, then maybe we’d be more inclined to buy a game new instead of buying the same exact thing for $15 or more less used, and put the savings towards something like the electric bill, or paying for our internet subscriptions.

What they need to do is make games people don’t want to sell back. If you look at the used stuff at gamestop, most of the games are games I wouldn’t buy anyway.

But once a game has been purchased, it belongs to the user to do with as they please, including selling them. To change that would be to subvert the principle of property.