Are used game sales really putting a hurt on game developers? Or are people complaining just to complain? Now as of lately, more than usual, I’ve heard that the used game market is killing gaming. Why? Because Gamestop found a growing market and decided to capitalize on the idea of buying and redistributing the products for a profit? Honestly, that’s just business.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
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Sure buddy... You're trying to tell me it has a deeper story than goat 🐐 simulator 4000?!?!?. I wanna give bg3 a shot but my brain is burnt out on long games
wasn't there an article saying the video games industry would be making 72 billion dollars this year?
Gamestop will start losing sales on most multiplayer games as most of them need an online pass to play online which is a good thing that developers are adding and will encourage people to buy games new.
Heck sony just started their own online pass they want sales to.
Used games will always have their place. I don't think its a huge issue for the industry. I will only get a used game if the is a big enough discount. Most relatively new releases are only like $5 cheaper anyway. Might as well get it new.