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1. How to kill gamestop and protect game devs

   

   Topic by Thegodzero · Nov 2009 · Home› General Discussion

   Here is my little brain fart/saopbox... How Digital distribution can kill the brick in mortar stores like gamestop with out killing game devs. The key is resale. Take a systems like steam where you can buy games digitally, and allow people to sell their game back at percentage of the rate that the game is going for at that…

2. Re: How to kill gamestop and protect game devs

   

   Reply by Thegodzero · Nov 2009 · Home› General Discussion

   00zero, A "used" game can't be resold, so its half the price of a new one. It's used because the money from the sale will never see the hands of the developer. I guess another way to look at it is, two types of game tiers. The first tier is full price games that can be returned for a fraction of the cost. The second tier…

3. Re: How to kill gamestop and protect game devs

   

   Reply by slipsius · Nov 2009 · Home› General Discussion

   how does steam still make 60? wouldnt they make 75? but this is flawed. why buy a new copy at all? its cheaper to get a used copy and then just delete it after. if anything, they should take a hint from runic and sell the games cheaper... get rid of the hard copies all together, then just sell every game online through a…