Blocking used games on next-gen consoles would be awesome, says Crytek
Also, no more fun.
Blocking used games on next-gen consoles would be awesome, says Crytek
Blocking used games on next-gen consoles would be awesome, says Crytek
Also, no more fun.
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It will only be a matter of time before they come right and crack the consoles to allow for second hand games!! I'm all for second hand gaming. Especially if I don't wanna have a specific one around and would rather swop it out for something new, it's just so much better.
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im with you on this
And yet people will keep shouting "Its not really and Issue."
Blame the stores. If they simply gave the Publisher/Developers a cut of the pre-owned sales revenue all would be well. But as it works now its a pure loss for the Developer/Publisher. As for cracking.. there will be no point. Stores will be banned from selling pre-owned games, just like they now dont sell pre-owned PC games.
Last edited by OmegaFenix; 25-04-2012 at 12:24 PM.
Used games are already dead on the PC side of things.
Not being able to sell my console games will have a drastic effect on what I decide to purchase on console though.
Exactly and thus it's an idea that I'm already used to.
Pretty much this.
Don't get me wrong, though. The only companies who will fail from used game sales are those who make crappy games anyway. If your game is good, it will sell a decent amount of new copies. Go have a look, the people crying the hardest about used copies are those who make shitty games.
However, I'm not going to cry about used copies being banned either. I've had it on PC for years now, and it was bound to happen to consoles sometime.
All it means is that many games won't see much sales if people can no longer buy them second hand. I can't see that it's going to suddenly turn the entire industry around and make everyone more money, because people don't have infinite amounts of money to spend on games.
If an average game you're not sure you're gonna like can't be bought second hand, that person probably isn't going to buy the game at all then. So, no loss, no gain.
I don't get why people would want to sell their games in the first place? Never have...
Because not everyone has R600 to cough up for the latest game which normally ends up being somewhat rubbish. So, by selling a game that they have already payed and played, they can use that dosh to contribute to the next circular piece of plastic. It does help fuel the industry, because people at least are coming in to the store and spending money on the game, instead of going to the neighbourhood pirate and cracking the console and never purchasing a game at all. And you know what? That 13 year old laaitie can get his game on for a fraction of the price. And even better, the games store makes a little bit on the side as well, keeping them going in this age of "whoever buys the most stock can squeeze the better price" competition that sees the smaller but better businesses suffer because of a R20 to R50 price difference.
I think the consoles just might see their asses if they go ahead with this. It's definitely going the way of a Mac - initial purchase on the new consoles is going to be insanely priced, then all the "exclusive propriety necessities" i.e the games are single purchase with no resell value. A forward leap in imagination is required here as the producers soon realise they have a monopoly on the games and jack the prices up with promises of new and improved content. And lets not forget, you won't be able to use your shiny new console to play your older games, nope you have to keep that PS3 / Xbox360 around to play your collection of older titles.
I wonder why I stick with PC...
Sorry WHAT! "The way of the mac...." Im sorry to piss in your rice crispies but mac sales has sky rocketed in the last few years. Apple's earnings has doubled since last year.
Tim Cook spent a few minutes extolling the successes of the Mac series at this year’s iPhone press conference. He says that the OS X Lion software has sold more than six million copies – 80 per cent more than the previous Snow leopard edition – and that Apple computers now claim 23 per cent market share of the home computer space. Its computers still inhabit a minority niche, but it’s one that’s growing at speed, where the PC market managed just a four per cent increase year-on-year, over the last four quarters.
At the last count, there were over 58 million Mac users worldwide. And Cook says they aren’t planning on stopping any time soon – he says that the 23 per cent minority share gives plenty of room for improvement.Source - go check it out there are pretty picture also.He's also noted that in the first quarter of this year, when Mac shipments grew by 27.7% while the PC market shrank by 1.2% year-on-year (by IDC's numbers; Gartner's show a 0.94% fall) Mac shipment growth occurred in "every single regional market". In Europe, they grew 10% against a PC market down 17.5%; in Asia up 69.4% (v PC market up 8.8%); in Japan, up 21.1% (PCs down 16.1%). All figures are IDC data, and all year-on-year.
So with that piece of dribble out of the way we can get down to the rest of this.
First off, if you can't afford a new game the solution is brain bumblingly simple.... Find a cheaper hobby. Gaming is a hobby, an expensive one. If you dont have the Dong (Vietnamese currency) to fuel that habit find one you can. And if you cant fuel your gaming hobby due to cash shortage and you then go out and pirate it I count you as low as snake shit.
It DOES NOT help fuel the industry. The develops make sweet fuck all if you buy a pre-owned game. The Store makes all the profit. Sure they give you a R150 if your lucky but they sell the same game for double that. Making a sweet 100% clean profit. And most of the time you dont buy something else, new, in the shop because you are already so strapped for cash you had to skip a few meals to afford that pre-owned copy Call of Duty MW14. The game store makes alot extra on the side, sometime even running special promotions giving you a new title for next to nothing if you trade 2 specific games. U know why they do this? Because the titles they ask you to trade are in demand and by selling them on they make a fat load of profit. (Game UK ran a special where you got The Witcher 2 for 99p (12.5027 ZAR) if you trade 2 of a selected list of titles)
Why would the initial purchase on the console be insanely price? And what has that got to do with pre-owned game sales O.o
"The producers realise they have a monopoly on the games and jack up the prices...." WTF, JUST WTF! I cant respond to that because IT MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE.
Also you already can't use your Xbox 360 to play Original Xbox games so that wont change.
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