Would you pay $20 for the last few levels of your video games?
Posted Saturday, March 27, 2010 by admin
Video game designers, developers, and manufactures have recently started a campaign against resale stores like GameStop and rental chains since they don’t see profit from secondhand sales or rentals. Even Bungie claimed large losses on Halo 3 because of video game resale stores. Game developers are now considering the option of making games to where you have to pay up to $20 (via unlocking the levels online) for the final levels of a game if you aren’t the game’s original owner. Some companies have taken the idea further to lowering the game cost at retail and making all of their games to where a $20 fee is required to unlock achievements/trophies and the games final levels. Game makers feel that this will increase their profits for their work and help to put an end to some forms of piracy. What do you think? Is this good for the video game business?
MY PERSONAL OPINION: If game developers are getting angry at the profit losses that they are taking because of resale stores like GameStop/EB, then they should stop feeding them promotional materials and focus it instead on pure retail outlets like Best Buy and Wal-Mart. Every time a game maker pushes a product with “bonuses” at a shop like GameStop, they are promoting the idea of selling it back to the store for resale when they are finished with the game. I have never been one to buy used games unless they are imports or for one of my older systems. However, I feel that a downloadable ending will limit the market more than game makers would like because there are still areas where the high speed internet connection that is required is not available or affordable.
I buy games new as it is anyways. I still own every game I have purchased also. I think that the creators are reaching a little bit on this one, just like the music industry and the film industry are. You are not going to stop people from making a buck off of a good idea like gamefly. Speaking of which, didn’t halo set some record for the sales of Halo 3? O yea it was the most grossed income for a title release in entertainmen HISTORY, this is a joke and they want to make a few more million before they are happy and even then they will be pissed that people are using their copyrighted name on yahoo answers. lol
you are right i wont pay that i would just hack the game codes my self …but they are mad so they should just ban the shops like that or charge a 3% sale on them so they get the % on each resale game the sell