Quote Originally Posted by kaedesdisciple View Post
Sure there was a first hand sale, and that was great. Let's put it to math for a second (all fictional but easily illustrated numbers):

Let's start our example by saying that 1,000,000 people have played Super Jumping People (SJP) and I am playing the role of the publisher.

If the 1,000,000 people that played the game bought it first-hand at full retail and my cut of that sale as a publisher of $10, that's 1,000,000 * $10 = $10,000,000 in revenue.

Now let's play with the numbers a little bit:

The same 1,000,000 people have played SJP.

However, if only 80% of those that played the game bought it first-hand at full retail, that reduces my cut to 800,000 * $10 = $8,000,000 in revenue. Now I'm missing $2,000,000 since I don't get a cut of second-hand sales. All of that extra money is now going to either private dealers or second-hand game sellers. Either way, this is now money out of the pocket of the people that own the rights to the IP.

Now I see that there is a control that I can put in place to take those second-hand sellers out of the equation to get some of that revenue back into my pocket? After realizing that it's a risk vs. reward discussion to determine whether it's worthwhile for me to use it for my product. If I lose the small percentage of hardcore gamers that protest the product but the vast majority don't care and buy the product anyway, I still get a nice chunk of my revenue back. Starting to lean towards sold for me...
Developers making more money isn't what pisses me off. It's developers cutting off their products and not making them available anymore that does. With this business model you will never be able to rent or afford all the games you want to play, so by the time a few years go buy and you finally have time to get to the 50th game in your list, it's "Fuck You, you can never play this game because we discontinued it just before you got to it" If it's "fuck you it's cancelled", then it's fuck them back with piracy cause I wanna play the old game they didn't give me time to make enough money to purchase. Get it?