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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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I'm not hung up on the fact that its not a physical object. Technology has changed the world a lot in the past few decades. Can we not be open minded enough to the concept of selling something that doesnt exist in the physical world? Thats what its creator is doing in the first place, you've said as much yourself. The game itself is not a physical item, right?
Lamps (or any other product for that matter) and video games are all completely different things. But the same concept, at least in my opinion, remains. They are products. You use them. When you no longer need or enjoy them, you dispose of them the best way you see fit. If that method of disposal is at the pawn shop or at gamestop, so be it. No, a developer wont make a profit if you buy a used game. The same could be said for the lamp. A lamp manufacturer wont make a profit off that used lamp. I cant think of a legitimate reason for either of them to.
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