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http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/8/25/
Basic treatise: If you buy a publisher's game used then you're not a customer of theirs so they don't really care if the "one time use" code thing pisses you off:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2010/8/25/words-and-their-meanings/
And boy did the responses start coming in:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2010/8/25/lets-talk-about/
And now they've started posting some of them (with permission, I'm assuming):
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2010/8/25/lets-go-phones/
Very interesting...
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How would they know what's hot? They'd come in and ask. Now, if the employee he was talking to was a serious gamer he'd get a good answer. More often than not though he's talking to a manager or someone who doesn't give a shit and they just steer him to whatever's new and whatever they have been told to push that week. And every so often they'd come in and sell back the previous several weeks of games.
The quote went something like "ever wonder who bought those dozens of used copies of Enter the Matrix? It was these guys"
I have a group of friends who go see a movie every single week. Every single week. Doesn't matter what's out, they'll just go see whatever got promoted the most the previous week. If every single new movie is a piece of shit they'll just pick the least shitty and go to that. You know how even the shittiest movies ever bring in some amount of millions of dollars on opening weekend? My group of friends is like this. They're not discerning, it's just something to do on a Friday night.
For a whole lot of people gaming is like that. it's not some serious thing to them, it's just entertainment. I'm not saying it's bad but the flip side of publishers complaining about used games sales hurting them is the publishers benefiting directly from people who just buy "whatever's new", which is I think one of the reason so many half-assed games make it to market.
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