News - Asda And Tesco trial pre-owned game scheme and trade-ins

[finlay666]

...Games publishers have zero rights...

If you are going to quote someone, do it in context

[aidanjt]

If you are going to quote someone, do it in context

What context? You're crying for all those 'poor' games publishers who are already earning silly money, aren't getting a slice of the second hand pie.

[Rob_B]

Hmmm...lots of text above this post which I've only skimmed over.

My thoughts are:

If publishers did get a slice of 2nd hand revenue (by whatever means) does anyone really think prices of games will drop? No, me neither.

The profits Game/etc make on used are (IMO) obscene, they offer a pittance for the game, even less for cash & then proceed to sell it at £2 less than the brand new version.
That's just my opinion though as they're doing nothing illegal (well, we think)

If I could buy a pre-owned game for £1 more & I knew it would go to the devs (well publisher really) then I would although I hate to feed the publishers rather than the creators.
I feel that it should be the carrot rather than the stick, provide exclusive content to purchasers of a new copy (not pre-order, just ANY new copy) rather than cutting out something pre-owned buyers have to pay for. I guess you could say this is actually the same thing but I think there is some difference & anyway it's not my problem to sort out!

[aidanjt]

Well, nobody is forced to sell/buy to/from GAME, and the fact that they are making so much money from it shows that there's a very large and popular market for 2nd hand trade. And naturally they're capitalising on it. Good for them, I say.

[kalniel]

What context? You're crying for all those 'poor' games publishers who are already earning silly money, aren't getting a slice of the second hand pie.

Which ones are they? The vast majority of games publishers are losing money, not earning silly amounts.

[Stephen C]

Looks like Argos have jumped aboard too but they're giving gift vouchers as opposed to cash.

[Rob_B]

Looks like Argos have jumped aboard too but they're giving gift vouchers as opposed to cash.

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Static...ideo_games.htm

ACII = £22
Bioshock 2 = £22
MW2 = £26

Nothing spectacular but will be useful to get Gamestation to match (plus you can prove prices easily unlike Game/HMV who won't print anything out for you)

[Stephen C]

True but they'd probably give you that in store credit knowing them.

[Rob_B]

Yeah it's all store credit.