Preowned sales will never go away. Any more than pirating music did.Jasper wrote:What's "stupid" is a JUDAS of the gaming industry like yourself, even having the audacity to post on a gaming message-board.
Do you think everyone here has forgotten that you were basically the only one that was adamantly fighting in favour of Microsoft's Xbox One DRM strategy?
Whilst your sisterhood of xbots were up in arms and actually doing something about Microsoft's attempt to strip gamers of their consumer rights, YOU were posting comment after comment DEFENDING Microsoft's DRM strategy.
Search your history of posts, gutter stench pussy lips! There is post after post of you defending Microsoft's DRM strategy in which you comment that Microsoft were left with no other alternative, and you even spouted garbage about how used games should not be compared to other used goods (like cars, bags etc) in which manufacturers have no further rights over sold goods, and that game developers deserve a cut of used game sales.
What a vile Microsoft cum pig you are, siding with the multi-billion dollar conglomerate attempting to destroy game ownership!
YET ON THE OTHER HAND....
Here you are in this thread POST AFTER POST advocating for gamers to buy an emulator, and to then COMMIT A CRIME and ILLEGALLY download and STEAL ROMS. Software piracy is a CRIMINAL act, hence making you GutterCUNT - no different to a child molester, or murderer, or sex offender.
So in conclusion...you advocate for Microsoft to strip gamers of their consumer rights, but you also advocate for gamers to commit a crime and steal from Nintendo.
What a fucking mess you are. Go kill yourself!
There will always be poor guys who have no job trying to figure out a way to get shit for free.
Hopefully MS have learned the lesson that gamers do not want to buy only digital and prefer buying something that can be resold for something. It's never going to change. They may WANT everyone to just avoid the second hand market but there are titles that don't appear anymore on the digital stores and owning a copy protects you against this. Example I want to buy Scott Pilgrim on the PS3 but it wasn't on the store anymore. If it had been a physical release you could have the option to buy it off ebay or gumtree.
We must never let greedy corporations have the freedom to limit how we buy things. MS have to look at this realistically like the way trading card collectors look at the value of trading cards that are rare: those rare cards are what make collecting exciting and the idea you have something others don't plays into the narcissism of people who like to make others jealous of them. Like when you observe everyone in the street who has the same make and model of car as each other and they look boring while yours is different and unique and unusual which causes people to look at yours and think you are cooler than them for having something they don't. Same thing I think with game collectors. (I'm not one, I just have a collection because I play lots of games not to use them as some kind of trophies to show how "hardcore" I am to others or for a show of status.)
When MS try to limit consumer rights they pretty much demonstrated they were not hardcore to the gaming community and lost the cool factor that makes people like a brand. The corporate greed got in the way of brand image and consumer loyalty and now they let Sony dominate this gen. People want to OWN the things they buy and I hope all of them understand that. If you own a Ferrari and there is only a few hundred made of it, then you feel good knowing you are not like the other million people around you. Same concept exists with owning rare games. You want to one day say"this thing I have in my possession is worth a certain thing to some people in the collector community who do not have it or have a means to obtain it. I want to sell it to get something I want that I value even more than this"
And this is something you see in the action figure scene too. Games for this reason as physical releases and sold on the second hand market will never go away so long as people are narcissistic and buy things for status reasons to make themselves feel more special than others. It's just a utopian ideal to have everyone want to purchase shit from servers. The greedy guy wants to be able to edit what content is in the title and this can sometimes ruin what the work was when released originally. (a danger to consumers if the company wants to deliberately wreck their own games to get you to upgrade to the new game earlier. Not letting them control what you bought with your own money is a fundamental right of the buyer imo)
