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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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Bull and shit. Totally different. You didn't just pirate a game. You gave some money to the guy who originally bought the game from the publisher. That guy might just go out, and with some of the money he got from you, buy another game.
Of course he could buy a used game, or none at all. Obviously the publishers won't get as much through trickle down (up?) from a used game sale as they would if you just bought a new one, but it's hardly the same as piracy.
I mean, does anyone say we are ripping of nVidia for buying a used GPU from ebay? Fuck no. Whoever is selling it is doing so because he wants a new one, and selling the old facilitates that for him.
Games aren't entirely the same, especially when the used game being sold is still very very new, but it's not entirely dissimilar either, and what Tycho is saying smacks of unwarranted hyperbole.
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