EpicBattleAxe

Uhh…i dont know… i dont buy alot of games…and play mostly F2P titles…if i buy something its usualy from a Steam sale…exept for a few big titles…

 Btw ask yourselfs are second hand games the only thing out there… cus i can tell you that me and some buddies of mine share our games with one another…wich means let me see …5 copies of the game that didnt get sold  wich is sad…but games cost alot for my country…the minimal wage is around 100 euros…and the average is close to 300…and game prices are still the same….soo…

i dont think they can make this work on the PC scene… but if we were playing on a console…well simply share the rig  i can already see renting whole systems  ahahah and im sure that im not the onlyone that thought of it  theyll replace the old monster with a newone.. this may actualy lead to less ppl buying consoles  ohoho this is going to be so much fun 

I can see why the companies involved would believe in a push this position, but I think in the end business would be worse. I don't think a lot of people (myself included) can afford more than a few 60 dollar games a year. I play a lot of games by renting and borrowing, occasionally through buying used. I know if this came to pass I would put a hard stop on preordering any games and wouldn't buy any games full price, and I don't think I'd be alone in this.

Btw, (s)he really does do hair transplant in Pakistan.

In relation to the topic, I have been buyin g a fe used PS2 games here in Japan, but if I got a new system, I would probably buy new due to trust and warantee.

In relation to the issue of blocking used games from a system, looking at it from an industry point of view, it doesn't make sense and wont happen IMO.  Firstly GameStop makes 2 billion a year, and assuming that they make 50% from used games (just a guess) that is still a lot of money to loose, and this is one company in one country.  There are other used games companies outside the US, so I am sure these companies would be lobbying console makers to allow some way for their business to continue.

As some other Axeheads have said, they trade games into buy new games, used games act as advertising/low cost barrier to franchises, and other promotional materials, and don't think for a second that SONY/Microsoft/Nintendo don't realise this.

The industry is working towards digital distribution, and the money that would be put into a console that blocks used games, and if only one console did it would hamper sales of that console in the market.  Imagine if Microsoft did this but SONY didn't, which console would you buy?

The only way I see this happening, is that the console makers may be looking at ways to reduce pirating further that may impact the used game market to enable console manufactuers to get in to markets where piracy is high like Asia and South America.

Now I am off to Pakistan to get me some new hair, I really don't see the point of spaming here for this product.  I suppose it's called spam for a reason.

I actually don't like used games that much. I can see how some people like the idea of used games, but is it still relevant today? Why would you get a game for 40 bucks used (new price 60) while you can probably get it new for like 45 bucks at some or other site? Why would you wait for a game to be turned in used for 40 bucks, while you could just wait a tad longer for the game price to drop to that point? Why would you wait for a used game if you truly wanted to play that game as soon as possible? If you are going to wait at all, just wait until the game is 30 bucks and save even more money.

There are craploads of great games out today, so you barely have those moments where there isn't anything to play, even if you are waiting for a price drop.

I guess it's just not my thing. Meanwhile, I feel good about supporting the developers for buying a game at full price. At the same time, I sometimes feel like pirating a game just because they want to come out with exclusive GameStop content (ahum… Darksiders II) that you simply cannot play unless you get it at GameStop; which there aren't any in the Netherlands, so I'm pretty much fucked out of that even if I wanted to get it.

I won't pirate Darksiders II though, don't worry. The game is too awesome for that. I'm just saying sometimes I feel like a developer deserves my money with it's strategy, other times I feel they are so disconnected from the actual player that they only care about exclusive deals that makes them more money; in which case I don't feel I need to support them fully.

Very true. I've done that many times myself. For example, I still needed to play the original Metal Gear Solid and couldn't get it anywhere new.

Why not get the original though? Twin Snakes is basically that, except remade.