Submission + - If You Resell Your Used Games, The Terrorists Win (hothardware.com) 1
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."
Complete BS (Score:2)
In the last year I have purchased zero 'boxed' games from any online or local retailer. On my PC I have a bunch of games my friends and I love to play.. Diablo 1 and 2, UT, Quake 2, Age of Empires, Empire Earth, Monkey Island (1, 3) etc etc all boxed games worthy of being purchased and played.. but in the last year? none.
However. I have bought just about every humble bundle. I have bought into the Kickstarter Leisure Suite Larry remake [kickstarter.com] and the Kickstarter Double Fine Adventure [kickstarter.com] projects... and I am dismaye