Another one of those threads?
And by those threads I mean, your usual lazy customer/PR agency shill posing as customer, asking peers "why owning something at all" has any worth...
Then about 80% of responses are entirely uninformed, but you still get an average of about one sensible posting per page, so thats great...
Lets react to this a little more proactively - why don't we..
People have to stop posting the "why is lazy bad?" selfhelp postings, when they encourage to ruin the entire ecosystem in favor of peer approval for them being lazy. If we could get people out of schools, who have ANY idea, what the difference between owning and loaning a thing is, that would be swell as well. Oh, one can still be dreaming.
FIRST
Reselling something you own, isn't a "graymarket". *inserttheworstcursewordyoucanthinkof* I dont care how moronic the followup statement of *crybaby* I dont event get half of the original price back is - NEVER supplement your laziness of not wanting to participate in a market with you not being allowed to participate in a market. The market is still there, it is legal, you are just too lazy and completely uneducated - and unwilling to participate.
SECOND
You can shelf your *crybaby* - "I only get half of my money back, when reselling" attitude, because the first price you paid is dictated by a "timed monopoly" of the good - while the second price (resell value), is the first price set by a REAL market.
THIRD
For every dollar difference between the RSP and the resell value the one who is buying from you, gets their good cheaper. This is THE ONLY price pressure, any game publisher EVER sees in their entire life. Much less in the "fake competition period" of the "first two months" when 90% of all game sales are made.
FOURTH
Every dollar *crybaby* seller of a game he owns gets less, used game buyer profits from. Meaning this does enlarge the overall userbase. Brings more people into the hobby.
FIFTH
The actual properties of both the physical and digital good are DESIGNED. So listing them and pitching good and bad against each other is entirely meaningless, apart from the points "has to be inserted to start game" and, "rights to the game are linked to the physical copy" is concerned - and even that could be designed around, but the industry interest isn't there.
SIXTH
Because of that simple logic game - where a publisher decides about every single property of their product its not "technical advancements" we are up against, to get our "wishfull thinking lazy future", its entirely peoples willingness to not own ANYTHING, give up the used games market, give up the game preservation scenes, give up the only free market price for games, and do that for NOTHING IN RETURN AT ALL. Because he also pays for the distribution (internet), and does so at the same price point, because...
SEVENTH
The RIGGED UP, FIXXED PRICE of a AAA game at release, is ONLY set against "what people are willing to pay max" and not at all against actual production, or distriution costs, or sales margins. Otherwise, digital only copys would INSTANTLY have to cost less then a third of their actual price.
So think LONG AND HARD about what you are actually demanding, when you are trying to shift an already brainwashed opinion (graymarket? GREY market?) onto your fellow lazy folks.
Because we see those models, already currently out there - you, as the typically lazy, uninformed millenial, lose NOTHING. Except "being among the elite, that wants to pay premium made up pricing on release day". Uh, exclusive. Does thiz come with day one dlc?
Here they are.
Poor people buy our subscription services. Get some free games, publisher picked, for your fees - and for the rest of the time pay retail pricing for digital releases -- that now never fall in price again - because, hey - digital shelfspace is limitless, and there is no price pressure.
The six (?) remaining publishers already colluded on the retail price, now give them everything they need to be able to do this in perpetuity.
But, but, but Steam?
Steam also exists in a world were retail releases are still a thing...
Also the PC is an open ecosystem (can install from GOG, or ...) consoles are not.
Everyone thinking, that the digital first world, where no one is owning games anymore (netflix model, you are buying usage rights), is something to look forward to - and only limited by technical advances - is an utter *insertyourownwordagain*.
Microsoft wanted to shift to that model with the launch of the Xbox One, WE THE PEOPLE prevented that, because of the reasons above, and because Sony didn't go with MS proposal at the time.
If you as a millennial with a 60% likelyhood of you not being able to differentiate between advertising and news, still want to dream of a world without markets, without ownership rights, and where you lazy ass never has to pay for people running physical world stores again - have the decency to do it with less glee - and without proposing, that reselling goods, really is a "greymarket" - when it isnt.
Thank you ever so much.
Love and care,
n.