[citation][nom]Hotobu[/nom]Ugh, I've skimmed these replies and it seems asthough no one here has gotten the obvious reason why companies are doing this. Yes they make profit from the first game sold, but the used game industry is still cutting into their profits. Here's the reason:The first person buys the game, and Ubisoft profits. That person sells the game (either direct, or through Gamestop it doesn't matter) Ubisoft has now lost the chance to make money off of that second person. By doing this they are either forcing the second person to buy the game new, or they're making sure they get something off of the used sale.[/citation]
did they really loose money ??? consider this fact , most gamers taht buy just used games , tend to be on the poor end of society (or theya re students) and don't have money for a 50-60 dollar game so, in all reality they would NOT buy teh game in teh first place if it was not availbe used. sure this isn't true of all consumers but it is very true for alarge portion of those used gmae sales. so really how much moneya re these guys relaly losing here? your guess is as good as mine , because ther is NO real way to measure , but i can guarantee you taht ubi soft smudges thier figures to say "sued gmaes hurt us " jsut so they can pass this crap on consumers and expect peopel to believe.
Now here is the reality
used games are NOT a new thing. comanpies crying about used game slaes hurting thier sales is realitivly new.
consider this now , when games went main stream the audience for video gmaes increased exponetially , as more and more people began to play games. consequencly the used market also increased exponetially as well.
back in say 1992 ther were maybe 2 milion gamers in all of US , and maybe out of thos million or so , say about 200,000 thousand gamers bought mostly used games , that's abotu ten percent... fast forward to today , there are over 30 million gamers in the us today and about 3 or 3.5 milion of thsoe gamers buy mostly used games but guess wahat that is Still ONLY TEN PERCENT of the market that is buyign only used games , just now that the number appears so much bigger , these ceo's can point a finger and say "Hey we are loosing money there" when really they arnt. and bleive it or not , it is rare to find a gamer that buys only used games,So really even the idea that 3 milion gmaers buy only used games is a bit ludicrous. i buy some games used myself but i just as often buy brand new games as well , so again the numbers are really fuzzy and this is all just bs excuses for publishers to rake in more money than they already do.