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True. Gotta admit though, the sale of pre-owned games never seemed like a problem before this console generation. It's only in the last year or so that games companies have been throwing tantrums and whining about not making money from pre-owned games. It just seems like pure greed to be honest. I kind of agree with something a friend said to me; 'if they want people to buy games new, they should just make them better'  |
It may be the first you've heard of it, but it's nothing new. Lorne Lanning was talking about how detrimental pre-owned games are to developers back in 2006. The problem isn't greed on the devs' part, it's the greed on the retailers' part, making more and more profit while the makers of the product don't benefit at all.
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This whole 'you don't own a copy of the game, you own a licence to use it' lark is getting ridiculous.
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As far as I'm concerned (for whatever that's worth), you do own a copy of the game. However, you have no
distribution rights to it. Reselling it is in violation of that. You could argue that it's never cropped up in any other medium before (books, for instance), and for all I know that could be the case. But it probably has, it's just that no retailer has ever pushed reselling so aggressively as in the videogame industry that it's become a huge industry-wide problem.