![]() I genuinely hope this progresses to the logical extreme of "buy multiplayer direct from us", because then I won't have to subsidize/pay for something I don't use. The point is, Gamestop's insane profits don't come because there's something wrong with selling used games they come because there's no competition, so they don't have to compete on price. It could as easily be Amazon or Barnes & Noble or Radio Shack. Note that it doesn't have to be the developers competing directly with Gamestop-I only suggest them because they're the ones that whine about Gamestop's monopolistic profit margins. If there were competition in the used games market, Gamestop wouldn't be able to charge their insane markups (and they are insane). ![]() So the game devs are jealous of all the perfectly legal abusive profits that Gamestop is making? Answer is obvious: open their own stores, and compete on used game prices. Unfortunately, the only way to deal with a monopoly is to create competition (or regulate it, and I sincerely hope we don't come to that pass). ![]() ![]() Now, that's still not a problem for the developers (no matter how jealous they might feel about the situation), but it's a problem for us. Game stop has a near monopoly, and they're abusing it badly. Gamestore through reselling probably made far more in profit from selling used than new copies.
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