Saves me the trouble of posting it.

"Hey, guys - we're out of popcorn. Oh, didn't see you were doing something there. I'll catch ya later."

I buy used console games 95% of the time because unless it's some title that I'm certain to play the heck out of like GTA or Mass Effect, I can't justify dropping MSRP. I grew up very poor and deferred gratification wasn't a choice but a way of life. When I got a good job and could afford new stuff, I didn't want to…

I agree with your premise regarding software, but the software publishers don't, which is why they are hammering on the idea that you don't "own" the software, but merely have been granted a license to use it. The elimination of physical media is part of the push to make this thesis stick because if there's nothing…

That's about right as far as the breakdown goes. Perhaps specific percentages may shift a little here or there, but the broad outlines are close enough for government work.

Egad, did someone stick a troll magnet on my back? Seems so. You are comparing apples to tire irons. Not sure if you're trolling or stupid or ignorant, so I'm going to proceed (probably foolishly) on the basis it's the last option.

Perhaps, but at least I'm not an arrogant stupid brat. Besides, I can go to the bathroom and rectify any excess excrement issues I might have. There ain't no cure for stupid.

And we didn't think you could do worse than that "Xbox None" line. Huzzah.

If you weren't being a twerp, you would've understood it. Since you're stupid, let me help you:

Since you don't know anyone, that's a meaningless statistic.

So much wrong in this screed...

According to the publishers, you are. (Please note that developers /= publishers. The words aren't interchangeable.) In fact, the whole first sale doctrine was established because a publisher sued Macy's for selling books under the price they wanted.

Ooooooh, "Xbox None." Sick burn. So devastating. Where that Citizen Kane applauding GIF?

I had family friends who had an Atari 2600 in 1978 (Tank Pong on Combat FTW!) and their cousins were always the first with new systems and had nearly everything including ColecoVision with the Adam computer expander (I once wrote a college paper on the word processor), the Atari 5200 (with the non-centering…

OK, understood.

No, he wasn't. Yes, sarcasm and irony are hard to express in print, but I have seen so much retarded flipping out* over the announcement that I'm operating under the presumption that anything that sounds stupid is being typed by someone who is stupid.

Do you realize that you are contradicting yourself by saying in effect, "No one cares about older software, but if I can't play my older software, that's a big turnoff for me," right? Probably not.

This is about as far as a "well-argued critique" as you can get. It's so thin and angry that the tl;dr version can be summed up thusly: "I don't have a big TV, so who else would want this thing?"

Whether Gamestop plays ball with this BS is going to be a major determinant. Publishers hate GS for their used games, but in their hunger to get 100% of the pie, they're going to be shrinking the size of the pie. Have you ever picked up some used title cheap and after enjoying it, purchased a sequel new? Well, if…

Um, why would they both want to play it online if the first person sold it to the second person because they were done playing it? Why are so many people working so hard to misunderstand what's happening here?!?