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[Graycochea]

http://www.clevernoob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/3269-is-the-gaming-industry-crashing/

[Fiery Grave]

Tis true, but not necessarily for the reasons he is saying.

Used games is killing the industry a lot faster than anything else, As a developer people playing your game is always awesome, but money is still needed to make more games. Out of your 60$ investment developers get about 3-6$ of it and publishers get about 4-6$... thats about 10$ going back into your game to make a new one thats good too. Now we all know we hate the online pass thing but honestly, there probably wouldn't be an EA right now if it didn't exist because when people buy used (which they do a lot now a days as it is a majority of gamestops income) the publisher and developer get no money from it (they liberality get the same amount of money as if you pirated it) giving them less money to make good games and forcing them to push games out faster so that the cost < returns leading to more rushed games. Yes if a game is better they will sell more copies but they will still lose a large amount to people trading in and buying used which gives them less money still overall and makes their expenses higher.

thats exactly why the PC market is still doing well, these pirating sure (and there hasn't been a game that can't be pirated in some form without being pure online multiplayer games), but you can't trade in PC games, you buy it your stuck with it. Steam is such an appealing market because developers/publishers get 70% of what you pay (though that isn't counting marketing and some other cost that went into the the $ values from before) and even if the price drops they are still making some money off it not nothing at all... Thats why games are going towards no used game because its destroying the industry from the inside