GameStop Warns Sony And Microsoft Against Blocking Used Games

Even if Microsoft doesn't block used games, I think GameStop is still going to be in trouble since the PS4 doesn't have backwards compatibility. Interest in used PS3 games is going to dry up real quick unlike last-gen where there was still a healthy demand for PS2 titles.

Bold enough/stupid enough?

Yes.

Ahh **** I was scrolling on the iPhone and thumbed myself down!

My response if someone who was intentionally persuading you to buy used and making money off titles used on my platform without giving me a dime?

Fuck off.

Just watermark the discs and let the publisher decide what it wants to do.

Sony and/or Microsoft don't give a damn if they block used games. They care about their own net profits, not Gamestop's

Sony isn't blocking used games, no one knows about MS yet. Also, GameStop only makes money off the current generation of consoles. PS2 games are now down to a small shelf in the corner, and GameCube and Xbox 1 games are almost non-existent. If people want older games they usually go on Amazon or eBay, not GameStop.

I haven't even thought about setting foot in a GameStop in probably 5 years. Their model is already dead to me.

I do buy used online, but that's usually carts, not disc-based. If I'm looking for a slightly older game I often find it online on Amazon new unopened for what I'd expect to pay for a used GameStop title.

After you bypass their constant suggestive selling, GameStop isn't that bad of a place (at least not in my area). Microsoft won't be bold enough. In fact, I don't think blocking used games would matter anyways.

Once you get past the ass rape that is GameStops "buy/sell" game policy, yea they aren't that bad.

While any SANE company would know its damn near suicidal to block used games on your machine, we've seen MS defy common sense before...

Just don't be the one selling to gamestop, that's the only assrape. The system is totally fine for buyers, much like a pawn shop.

EDIT: maybe the pawnshop wasn't the greatest analogy but you can get great deals at them is my point.

Second hand games retailer does a survey & finds that everyone thinks second hand games are important - who would have thought?

But seriously, rentals & being able to loan a game to a friend is pretty important as well. Consumers will be pissed if they can only play a game on one console.

That trade credit argument is awful--if they generate that much from accepting used games, guess how much GameStop makes from selling them...?

That said, it's probably quite the coup for Sony if MS blocks games and they don't.

I used to think that while used games should be allowed, the "Online Pass" fee was actually understandable. Servers are being maintained and whatnot after the game was initially made in order to support the online infrastructure. This costs money. However, the more I thought about it, the more it didn't make sense. If the initial purchaser is selling the game, and therefore no longer playing it online, are they credited that $10 (or whatever) for no longer using the online portion of the game? Of course not. Even though somebody new is playing it online, somebody else conversely is not. If publishers don't want people to buy used games the solutions is actually really simple: lower the price of games quicker. Not many people are willing to pay full price for a game 3 months after it came out.

haha I really hope MS does have the blocker, BURN IN HELL XBOX hahaha

Forget GameStops losses, wouldn't GameFly be completely obliterated? I value them much more...GameStop could vanish from the face of the earth and I might not notice.