Quote Originally Posted by MOnk View Post
I don't really understand this fascination with used games, I have never sold any game that I have bought and I don't believe it's some basic right for us to be able to do so.
This has never been tested frankly. We are in new territory here. Rather than seeing it as a fascination I view it as self explanatory that if I can sell anything else I own I can also sell any game I own. Game studios are in an unfair position here where their product can actually allow you to use it or not.

Quote Originally Posted by MOnk View Post
On a more practical front however are you saying you would prefer the console scenario where you buy a game for R600 and sell it for R350-400 instead of just buying it for R50-150 that is often the case with Steam.

For me buying a game is like purchasing a movie ticket, it's your passport to experience the world of the game for as long as you want and as many times as you want. Like it or not second hand games screw over the developers who make these games that we all love so much. So if I can't afford a game I would rather wait until it gets cheaper and pay R150 that actually goes to the people who made the game rather than paying R400 which at best gets circulated between gamers and at worst goes to pawn shops and second hand retailers.
Except that you are not buying a movie ticket but an actual physical product. I am sure second hand book sales "screw over" writers but none of them are whining about this. Really if developers can't come up with a way to make enough money that is not my problem either and this "support the developers" rhetoric is just a cop-out to me when there has never been a successful argument put forth why games should work differently.

I have never sold a game but I have traded them and given some away while also being given some. I cherish this freedom I have which to put it bluntly nobody has a right to try and take away from me. I am not going to go on the whole price issue because that is something different, and don't see where the whole console price thing comes in, but most of my games were bought for <R100 from 3rd party studios. So I haven't supported any developers as much as I would like to all because they don't seem to have a way of making money unless they charge >R300 for something.