If you can’t afford to buy the game full price, maybe you should find a new hobby. Is that extra $5 for a new copy going to keep you from making your rent, ‘asshat’? Video games are a fucking luxury, not a right. Let me guess, you pirate games too because you wouldn’t be able to afford it otherwise?

If that $5 savings is make or break for you, then you have bigger problems. Can’t help you with that.

Here you go, kid. Do a little research. I’ve done half the work for you.

Perceived value =\= physical degradation

DIGITAL products don’t degrade, physical products do.

Keep digging that hole. Physical. Products. Degrade. Over. Time.

Cars degrade over time, games do not. But, sure, keep using that argument that has been proven wrong time and time again. You would have no issue buying a game that 10 people have owned, but wouldn’t even consider buying a car owned by 10 people with 300k miles.

Again, bud, you are foxholed in your ways, and that’s fine. It’s your money and you are free to do with those dollars and cents as you see fit, but you - and how you consume this media - is part of the problem, and you seem to be okay with that. Again, it’s your money. Your life. There’s nothing that I can say that’s…

Yup. It’s a vicious cycle.

How are they going to keep updating a game when they lay off half of their development staff as the game ships? As for my user name, simply calling out that my name is Flawed_Logic does not mean that my logic is inherently flawed. It’s called irony. You have to point out the fallacy itself. Do better next time.

Someone gets it. Thanks.

Which is exactly what the record companies tried to do, if you don’t remember. As for stealing music, remember Napster? The only reason it flipped is with iTunes and the onset of digital delivery, and to a similar extent the same thing is happening with digital delivery with games. Steam has been nothing short of a…

They report the copies shipped to make themselves look good, and then cut jobs based on how many copies actually sold (i.e. How much money it actually made). But, hey, that $5 savings, though. Worth it.

Yup. It is. If you buy a used game from GameStop, $0 goes to the developers and 100% of the proceeds go the the brick and mortar. Keep supporting the shitty company, though. Just don’t bitch when the publishers make games 70-80-90 bucks to compensate for it.

But it’s your right to take the food away. Got it.

But then they get fired if said copies don’t sell.

But when the retailers goes out of their way - and outright lies - to tell you they don’t have any New copies, it hurts the developer. Would you rather save $5 and have the money go to the vampires at GameStop, or spend a few more bucks for a new copy that goes to the people that made the damned product?

Then the cost of games would go up to $80-$90. Resell market is a leech on the developers. Look at the last 2 articles this very site posted about GameStop and tell me I’m wrong.

I hate how there are so many ways for game developers to get fucked over. Buying from G2A and the like, as well as buying used from GameStop, is bullshit. Buy new. Buy digital. Support the people who frequently work in shitty conditions, with shitty hours, and wobbly job stability to create the things you love.

Completely agree. The game should’ve ended with Shepard walking into the light, which caused the reapers to explode and the game to end. People that shit on 200+ great hours for a subpar last 5 minutes are, and I’m not mincing words here, idiots.