The best outcome of a bad situation for all game developers, whos careers depend on sales. Might eventually change some attitudes to the practice, all be it a bit late in the day. An interesting approach to a common idea! Whether they will do it consciously or not is another matter. The only person loosing out here is the consumer aside from the publisher of course They are aiming squarely at the i-Gen gamer who rarely if ever keeps a real-world item such as a game disc, and relies on trading the games in s soon as they are finished, if finished, and usually within days of purchase, if not hours.
These gamers usually are younger, have money coming from other means other than work hi mum, dad and are big business in the market place at the moment. Certainly not giving the gamer good value for money spent. Publishers are struggling as it is, and if retailers are going to push customers to NOT keep games, thus not keep the gamers online with the MP side of things and see longer use from the game, and high retention rate of single-player re-use of games, then they will start jacking up prices, not lowering them.
They get one slice of the retail pie, the retailer gets 20 slices of a 10 slice cake. This simply would not happen in DVD sales businesses, so why need it happen with games. Larger longer games will not get finished, they will get returned after an overnight play, points awarded to the recipient, and the retailer turns it over again at a high rate due to the fact that it is being resold close to release period set down by the publisher before discounts are allowed officially by retailers.
The retailer will sell traded games over retail as there's far more profit in them, and an ongoing profit at that, whereas new game sales have far less profit margins, and do not warrant the effort in selling them over games that give 10 times the return. What do the publishers and developers do then. The only person that profits from all this is the high-street retailer, big time. Edited 1 times. Last edit by Grant Smythe on 8th October pm. Ashley Tarver Indie 11 years ago. In fact, do you see what the retailers are doing here?
Asda, Argos, Tesco Game and Gamestation, indies and more, all flogging the horse all these news items the past few months about second hand because eventually it'll be dead to them. At some point in the future they won't be able to offer the shareholders anywhere near the same dividends. Last edit by Ashley Tarver on 8th October pm. Cancel Submit. How satisfied are you with this discussion?
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