Pirating vs. Purchasing

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Who says it pirates doing all the damage, to be honest pirates are just a focus point as there easy to blame.


heres an example:
A store buys new game/DVD, from there owners, Say MGS12 or something *we all know it will get to 12 or something lame like that*
Any bunch rich people walk in buy load of copys for friend and what not, then then trade them in for cash *which a lot of place do*

Do u buy the second hand copy for 40e(A) or a new one at 70e(B).

I think we all know that were going to pick (A) right, lowering the number of new games that are need to keep up with sales.

this is just my 2 cents.

Wait is this an argument against second hand games? No second hand games: everything is then a rental and if you feel like paying what amounts to a good percentage of a months wages for most on a rental then more fool you. Also can you name me any other industry (including other "intellectual property" type industries) where the same thing happens.
I will say on this I first saw this argument a couple of years ago and dismissed it completely, I am rather alarmed that it has gained somewhat of a foothold. To my mind it is but half a step away from "open source/freeware is making it hard for us to sell our software".

I only buy second hand games, its the only way to get good ps2 game like Kingdom hearts.
I was just pointing out that pre-owned game would lower sales on bran new game after a free week, would make sales look smaller then they really are.

Second hand games are need to stop new games going off the deep end price wise.
Look at the lean mean grilling console, the ps3, it games started at 70euro, (100) Dollars.
they would never of gone down to 40-50 in a year if there were no second hand version.