Someday, maybe.

But all that aside, the gaming industry should take a lesson from the music industry. CDs were expensive. Used CDs were cheaper, so people bought them. MP3s were cheaper still (ie illegally free) and easy to acquire. So that’s what we did. I don’t know if used CDs are still a thriving market, I haven’t bought one in ages. I buy almost all my music through iTunes or Amazon, because the cost seems reasonable and the convenience is high. The cost of games is rather high new. So I don’t buy them, with rare exception. I surely won’t be buying digital downloads of a game that I can’t turn around and trade or sell. But, even if I do buy used, I generate money for the producers by buying downloadable content frequently. It’s the happy medium for me.

I’m all for companies offering incentives to buy new, or pre-order somewhere. (Now with new DLC for pre-orders there is finally a reason to do so. For over a decade its sole purpose has been to do inventory management for GameStop so they don’t have to think.) The bigger incentive would be to get the costs down so used games aren’t so attractive. Getting more restrictive with DRM or downloadable content will hurt them in the long run by forcing more people away from gaming or inspiring more people to look toward piracy.

Forget the ethics of the thing, it’s all about market forces.

By the way, “SAPWOOD” may have been a coup for you, but Sara and I agree that you are a cheating cheater.

Thanks for the post.

(btw – You’ll get more comments if you don’t require them to create usernames for your website.)