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I'm well aware of that tired argument. You still didn't address how it's any different from any other used markets. Look at Amazon, they offer a second hand market on their own site, at their expense because people are buying other customer's products as opposed to Amazon's.
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Games are super expensive dude. A lot of games don't break profit off one title alone. For example uncharted 3 and mass effect 3 were made just to break even off the 2nd chapters. Its expensive to build an entire new engine.
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Just because it doesn't affect you (yet) doesn't mean you should support their moves. They are attempting to get rid of used games completely, by driving out companies likes Gamestop. This ends up hurting the consumer. You're a consumer aren't you? Are you so willing to bend over backwards and let them have their way with you? Because I'd bet this will only lead to further shady moves and stupid subscription type services. as long as people keep buying they know they can get away with it. PC games have game codes. But they also have Steam, which offers fantastic discounts and makes up for the lack of used games. Xbox live has no such thing and their deals are typically pretty awful.
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Who is they? It depends solely on the publisher. Ubisoft is very aggressive in their pricing, i saw assassins creed revelations on sale for 20$ new last week.
Xbox live doesn't have steam because the install base isn't as developed as the average pc gamer. Many console gamers don't have a large hard drive to make a service like steam viable this gen.
Steam also benefit from being independent operation. In order to put up a game on psn or xbox live you need verification from them which can take months. It's not streamlined yet, but should be real smooth next gen i'd imagine.
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Also, what do you think about Xbox Live's price being raised $10 (really, why am I paying for XBox live in the first place???)? Or game prices going up from $50 to $60, or the $15 DLC that gives you three maps.
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Its completely bogus, but to put it in perspective,world of warcraft charges the same amount and thats for 1 game.