[ SECRET POST #1535 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1535 ⌋

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 058 secrets from Secret Submission Post #219.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[urplesquirrel.livejournal.com]

Okay... How is Gamestop selling a used game any different than any other video game store reselling a used game? Or a person giving their used game to a friend who wants to play it? Or someone selling their used games on Craigslist?

Publishers of books make no money from used bookstores, record companies make no money from people selling old CDs. This happens in every media in existence.

I agree with you on the pirating issue, but freaking out about used games is ridiculous.

[lljscrawls.livejournal.com]

Oh, there's no difference in other game stores selling used games and Gamestop selling used games. :) I wasn't trying to say that at all. Gamestop is just the first that came to mind because it's "eaten," so to speak, so many other game stores that I was familiar with from my childhood: EB Games, FuncoLand, Babbages, Game Crazy, etc. They all either went out of business or were absorbed by Gamestop, and since Gamestop is now the major store in my area, that's the first one that came to mind.

Reading the rest of your message, though, I'm unsure whether you're just angry about me singling out Gamestop or if you're angry that I brought up used games in general. If it's the latter, then I'm sorry -- but it IS an issue. If you want, I can claw through the internet to find the article I read a couple weeks ago in which a video game developer lamented both piracy and used games, admitting that while he saw the benefit in used games, it was still hurting the industry. Yes, it's going to happen everywhere -- in Gamestop, in other small game stores until Gamestop eats them, on the internet, etc. -- but it still hurts.

And Hell, I'm not telling people not to buy used games, you know. I was merely pointing out that this DOES hurt the industry, and that piracy is therefore adding insult to injury by just making the problem worse.

[urplesquirrel.livejournal.com]

I wasn't actually angry, just confused because you were singling out a single store chain. My local video game store is called GameCrazy, and I wondered if they'd get a pass for being an independent business. Besides, when you use lines like "the industry itself is hurting so much right now from the likes of Gamestop" it comes across as though you only care about the one chain.

I also find fretting about used games strange because you don't hear other media industries talking about used CDs/books/audiobooks being resold as a major issue. They're all about "piracy is evil and must be stopped!" I've never heard someone talking about used products damaging an industry before.

I wasn't angry. Just mystified.