- Machiniman15
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If you're a gamer, you have to deal with the problem of scratched disks. This got me thinking that there are two services that gaming companies need to offer.
Idea #1
If a dollar bill is partially destroyed, you can take it to a bank to have it replaced. So long as you have at least 51% of the total bill. Games are also like that. A dollar bill has no value, it's assigned a value. Same thing goes for video games. It doesn't cost sixty bucks to make a disk, most of that is to pay all the individual people involved in it. I don't know how much it does cost, but it is a lot less.
My idea is that if you have a disk of a game that is broken beyond repair, you can take it to a place where you can be redeemed. Take at least 51% of disk, and take it to a place (I have no idea where) and they will give you a new copy of that game. All you have to pay is the manufacturing cost and plus some.
Idea #2
If you have a game that is scrathed a little bit, you can not play the content on that part of the disk. You can't install the game onto your hardrive either.
So, if you connect to Xbox live, you can install onto your hardrive from there. For a nominal fee of course. NOTE: This is different than buying a game online. You must still keep the disk in order to play.
[Edited on 02.11.2012 3:26 PM PST]