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Posted by: insaneAssass1n9
It seems I am one of the only ones here who supports the developer, and therefore supports online passes.
More and more we are seeing brick and mortar establishments such as Game Stop advocating and pushing the purchasing of used games on their customers, there by costing the developer what could have been a potential sale.
As a former employee of Gamestop, I can confirm that as employees, we were trained to, upon the attempted purchase of a new game by a customer, to offer them the used version instead. In a situation like this, there is no question that it is a loss of a sale for the developer.
As the op stated, you also have to consider piracy, which in my opinion, is not the main argument in a case like this, but is still one indeed.
Just to make an analogy to other platforms of games where everything is digital, such as some mobile games, you don't see people complaining about the fact that they have to pay full price for the game, and can't buy it used for a cheaper price instead.
One might try to counter this argument by saying, that this is because they already are so cheap. My response to that would be that the reason games are getting more and more expensive is because the developers have to set the price to be that high to make enough money to keep themselves afloat, and making more games.
The benefits of this can already be seen on steam, the reason that they are able to lower the prices and have such great deals is because everything is bought "new".
Online passes are the first step in a long journey to not only giving the developer what they deserve, but also lowering the prices of games as a whole. It will take awhile for it to happen, but if we can eliminate the abundance of brick and mortar establishments forcing used games and taking away sales, we will see a benefit on our end.
Regardless, none of this will really matter anyway, once everything goes digital.
Also, this probably belongs in the flood.
I agree with what your saying, but wouldn't there be a way to go seller side, i.e. Gamestop, and try to put restrictions on selling used games? Or would they not be able to do that? Again I think it is SOMEWHAT unreasonable to put online passes but I do see the truth in what your saying...