Devil's advocate (Gaming)

by Xenos , Shores of Time, Sunday, May 29, 2016, 15:42 (2891 days ago) @ Cody Miller

And the important part: THE GAME FUNCTIONS THE SAME.

Even if that were true, that is not the totality of the experience in owning a game.

Some people care about the packaging and supplemental material such as manuals, posters, artwork, etc. A new game will function much longer since wear and tear will render a used copy inoperable sooner than a new copy starting fresh. Tell me that's not worth something? These things demonstrably have value as they change the price of used games.

And I almost completely agree with you. I'm purposefully taking the position of the company though, not the consumer. Their perspective is about loss of sales. Even if it's not a one to one loss of sales, there is assuredly some loss of sales for the original company. The fact that that is in fact true means that they have a desire to try to curb used sales as much as possible (aka there is a certain amount of logic).