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Best Buy considering selling used games
Sun, 2005-10-02 08:15 — Stephen
Just comes down to who matters more, the customer, or the manufacturer.
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That may be a delight to gamers, but it tends to irk developers and publishers, who don't earn money from used titles. Further, publishers often handle customer service calls from used game customers -- a service which can be quite expensive. Epic vice president Mark Rein, for instance, is openly hostile to used game sales.
"We pay to be in Best Buy's flyers," Rein told CNN. "We pay market development funds. Publishers drive gaming traffic to these stores. To have them resell the games, with developers having no participation, that's just wrong. That's just fleecing us."
It's an interesting idea. I don't see myself buying used games at Best Buy unless they're a bit cheaper than they are at places like Gamestop.
I suppose they could appease people like Rein by giving them a cut of the used game sales as well. The article claims used game sales are much more profitable than new, so I imagine they could charge as much as Gamestop and then give the maker a cut.
hm
Hm give someone a cut of super lucrative game sales that isn't required by law. Hm. Let me think about this one. I want to say... not in a million years.
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