Selling your digital games will become reality soon

[GameHED]

Is EB Games finally doomed?
Good article on the future of games trading in the digital world:
https://www.polygon.com/2018/5/11/17336 ... obot-cache" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Really interesting times we are living in now. I think it is inevitable. The thought that when you buy a virtual item that you don't really own it, actually kinda disgusts me. It should have happened a LONG TIME AGO. It's only not happening due to human greed.

But think about the positive thing it can have: a shit game can finally be measured by how many second hand copies are trying to be sold on the second hand market (creating a buyer's market so poor guys can finally play old games and not go broke or starve to death) and less about what corrupt critics tell us about a game. True value comes from the free market. It's what keeps the con artists scared and allows communities to keep re-sellers honest. Because the free market determines value.

People who are saving for important things (paying bills or emergency funding to pay for important surgery or something like that) can actually sell their digital games to assist them in living.

It has to happen and the greedy guys need to accept it. You will die at some point in your life and you won't be able to take the useless crap you bought with your money with you to the next life. Pirates will get your games free anyway. To compete against that, you need to encourage gamers to make money selling old games to buy new ones as the alternative to just stealing your shit like what candy does to all the nintendo games which as we have seen is costing money to all the good game companies and causing asian kids in japan to commit suicide or starve because they can't make enough to survive. (the hikikomori problem arises as they become shut-ins because the world outside is too scary and ugly to compete against and like the kids in Ready Player One they decide to escape into virtual worlds instead of playing outside and going on nature walks to breed in order to pay for the medical bill of the elderly who won't die due to such long lifespan) If poor guys could buy one game and play it, sell the digital copy after he is through with it, save up enough to buy the next game, combine the money he saved with the money he got selling the old game he owned, he would be able to overall buy more games over his lifespan. What scares kids is the high price of games. So by letting them sell old digital games, they can afford to buy the more expensive games SOONER rather than taking months to be able to afford it.

There are many benefits to being nice to people but we have to get the government involved in this and make laws that allow transfer of user rights of a digital game to other users and watch that the pollies are not being paid off to make things expensive to protect the big guys in the game industry at the expense of the people who pay taxes and pay the government workers their checks. If people don't make laws to make it mandatory then companies like EBgames will just continue selling second hand physical games anyway so there is no reason to wish they were dead if the customers have chosen to want to fucking OWN their games. (it's not EB Games fault, the free market has chosen this. IE the buyers are saying to you companies "we prefer to own games we buy with our money not merely have rights to use it and not resell it or gift it to someone else" so you have to blame THEM not the business that merely allows it. The free market is the thing that decides value. And nobody wants to play a digital cloud edition of the game if they don't own the game. It's about rights of the buyers. Digital versions are less valuable than physical because it's unable to be resold.

Anyway so who is with me? Should government laws be created to mandate that virtual items like games, be allowed to be sold by the buyer just like physical versions of a game? It makes no sense that a digital version is different than the physical. It opens up possibility for people to also try MORE GAMES. It means you can review a copy of a game, sell it, and fund your little youtube review channel with money you got back from resale of the games you just bought digitally. This promotes honesty and people get a better idea of what is valuable game and what is crap and the indie community get more oerall feedback from the gamers because more people have a option to resell a game if it sucks and that elimination of risk makes everyone happier/more knowledgable. (the indie game companies get their name out there easier too because people talk about them on the streams)