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Developer Labels Used Games Worse than Piracy

By pete_gallagher

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The co-founder of Blitz Games Studios believes that pre-owned games are a bigger threat to developers than piracy.

Andrew Oliver told Develop that the 'damage done' by used games sales would push publishers even more towards digital downloads. Oliver cited a figure that original copies of games are traded in up to four times to claim that such a practice effectively cuts publisher and developer royalties to such an extent that 'the money going back up the chain is a fraction of what it was only a few years ago.'

Oliver added, 'I understand why players do this, games are expensive and after a few weeks of playing you've either beaten it, or got bored of it so trading it back in to help pay for the next seems sensible when people are short of cash.'
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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on May 11, 2010 (boomark / email).

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