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Re: Nearly 50% of GameStops profits come from pre-owned sales (College Paper)
I didn't read the whole thread so apologies if I'm reiterating another point here. I used to work in retail, admittedly guitars and not games, but a huge portion of the overall profits came from used gear / accessories rather than new products. And any brick and mortar business needs to make profits somewhere since the… -
Re: Nearly 50% of GameStops profits come from pre-owned sales (College Paper)
Wasn't it Bad Company 2 that gave it's customers a one time use multiplayer code, and then sold a code online for $20, if you purchased the game second hand? I thought that was a solid idea. I hope to see more of that. -
Nearly 50% of GameStops profits come from pre-owned sales (College Paper)
I have to do a paper on the effects of game retailer's on the game industry and I am writing from the side of the game publishers/developers. Here is an small article about what I am writing.… -
Re: Nearly 50% of GameStops profits come from pre-owned sales (College Paper)
What I mean is, plenty of money is coming in. For everybody. Take All Points Bulletin. The big failure of 2010, right? According to these figures APB made 130,000*28=3,6 million dollars. I know what you're thinking; that's not a lot. But it is! For that kind of money, you can make Amnesia: The Dark Descent five or six… -
Re: Nearly 50% of GameStops profits come from pre-owned sales (College Paper)
I havent read through the whole thread. juts the first page, but really, its a business just like any other. They are just trying to make money. But, that being said, I think alot of people will pick up an older game used, just cause they didnt play it back when it first came out, and if they like they, they tend to buy… -
Re: Nearly 50% of GameStops profits come from pre-owned sales (College Paper)
Yeah there is an offline mode. Sometimes it's a bit wonky but for most games it works. Maybe he was talking about being required to be online to actually download the games? Would be kind of a silly point though. -
Re: Nearly 50% of GameStops profits come from pre-owned sales (College Paper)
You can play most of the games in offline mode though, can't you? So long as you've signed in to "validate" them at some point on that computer? (And assuming the game itself doesn't require online sign in each time, like a lot of Ubisoft games or something). -
Re: Nearly 50% of GameStops profits come from pre-owned sales (College Paper)
Very true, but console games have always come with a license-premium tag that goes to the console creator, that's always been the downside with buying consoles, even though people say how great it is to be able to play modern games without having to buy an expensive computer. -
Re: Nearly 50% of GameStops profits come from pre-owned sales (College Paper)
I don't think anyone is saying that. Also consumer rights are not going to change because of videogame sales when Black Ops just sold 12 mil. Used game sales have nothing to do with bad game sales. Only thing companies can say is "we believe we lost some revenue" but they have no idea how much revenue because it's… -
Re: Nearly 50% of GameStops profits come from pre-owned sales (College Paper)
This is pretty serious. I worked at Gamestop back when I was a teen, a few blocks away from an impoverished neighborhood. We would have a lot of questionable looking characters come in trading in a ton of random crap, even trying to see if we would take flash drives. Always heard stories of people getting tons of their…
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