What makes you 'exceptional' is the amount up your own arses you are about how wonderful you are. I know people tend to brag about their own nationality, but the nations that try to codify it into their laws and culture tend to be the least democratic...
Kudos to MS for adjusting their business model. But it still sucks.
And you already have those First Sale laws that does actually force the video game industry to play by the same economic rules as any other industry:
Make what the customer wants or that you can persuade them they want, make it cheaper or better than your competitors, or go out of business.
Of course, the content industries prefer to buy legislation to legal-away competition and keep any gravy train going, rather than actually innovate.
I've spent more money in the last few years on Free-to-play games on micropayments than I have on actual games. Because the offer so much more, and I could give a rat's arse that mediaeval venice has authentic-looking poo on the floor or that my headshot shows the right percentage of blood to brains, or that the gun used is both authentic-looking and 'authorised'.
I live in the EU, so apparently I do own the copy of software that I buy ;) And you guys should as well. As was pointed out earlier in the thread, publishers refuse to be consistent whether it's a sale or a licence that a customer is paying for. That needs to be clarified and made consistent.
And yes, it's as perfectly fair for you as a buyer of new games to pay whatever the company is making you to, as it claims, make up for second-hand sales. Firstly, no-one is forcing you to buy the game new/full price. Ok, I know some people have to - but there are people who want to do this. But you yourself have a choice. If the companies are pricing their content too high for people to want to pay $60, then they need to change their business model and cost management - the whole point of this article.
Secondly, every other industry selling stuff seems to manage fine. If new car buyers or new furniture buyers or new television buyers have to theoretically 'pay to make up for people buying second-hand' then there is no special reason why games or books or movies or music should be exempt. They already have the special exemption that they can charge forever less a day for all copies of a one-off work, which the guy building the car, making the furniture or designing the TV doesn't get.
So yes, it's utterly fair. You want to pay $60? Fine. Not happy with it? Don't buy it. If I want to buy it, I have the perfectly legal choice of paying £40 for it new, or a lot less for it second-hand. So cry me a river.
There is also a fallacy in thinking that preventing second-hand sales would miraculously lead to a like-for-like increase in first-hand sales. If I can't afford $40 for a new game, or unless it's something I badly want (which is rare), I'll just go spend my money on something else, like a book or music or food out, or even a toy for my kid. How much is the game developer getting there? Am I 'forcing' you to pay extra then?
Yes, but what a lot of the industry thinking is that they ignore that people have bandwidth and usage caps, so anythinig they have to download is bad enough, but if your game with its 'always on built-in DLC' (Diablo III, I'm looking at you) will chew through your available amounts for no actual benefit, like a lot of these 'innovations'.
I hadn't noticed Bollywood having any issues getting into international markets where there is a strong Indian sub-continental presence - Bollywood films aren't too hard to find here in the UK, for instance, albeit I'm sure that's only a fraction of the output.
And any country producing such gems as 'Jersey Shore' cannot possibly complain about the local output of any other country!
Disclaimer: I know the UK has 'The Only Way Is Essex' (TOWIE).
Yes, but when you compare the average income in India with the US, plus what percentage of the population have access to movies, I suspect that Bollywood can only do better in its current format.
Judging by the amount of times you inanely spam each and every thread irrelevantly, not in the slightest. Obviously youe man-crush isn't returned, and you are beneath notice.
The only downside to your obsession is that I may stop bothering to show pinked-out comments and miss some of OotB's slightly more lucid rants.
That's ok, I'm sure they don't want to return to any 'normal' that compares to right-wingers. After all, who wants to be compared to the bloke who 'goes Hulk' and *gains* IQ? ;)
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The sooner everyone stops taking the bait, the better.
Except then we'll get even more threads made up of mostly pink links.
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And Hitler had years to do what he wanted because not enough people were opposing him.
I'm also pretty sure your government did have access to certain information, it just couldn't cross departmental fiefdoms to join the dots.
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"People's" Republic of China
"Democratic" German Republic
Anything in the US with 'Family' in the name.
"Defense" of Marriage Act
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And you already have those First Sale laws that does actually force the video game industry to play by the same economic rules as any other industry:
Make what the customer wants or that you can persuade them they want, make it cheaper or better than your competitors, or go out of business.
Of course, the content industries prefer to buy legislation to legal-away competition and keep any gravy train going, rather than actually innovate.
I've spent more money in the last few years on Free-to-play games on micropayments than I have on actual games. Because the offer so much more, and I could give a rat's arse that mediaeval venice has authentic-looking poo on the floor or that my headshot shows the right percentage of blood to brains, or that the gun used is both authentic-looking and 'authorised'.
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And yes, it's as perfectly fair for you as a buyer of new games to pay whatever the company is making you to, as it claims, make up for second-hand sales. Firstly, no-one is forcing you to buy the game new/full price. Ok, I know some people have to - but there are people who want to do this. But you yourself have a choice. If the companies are pricing their content too high for people to want to pay $60, then they need to change their business model and cost management - the whole point of this article.
Secondly, every other industry selling stuff seems to manage fine. If new car buyers or new furniture buyers or new television buyers have to theoretically 'pay to make up for people buying second-hand' then there is no special reason why games or books or movies or music should be exempt. They already have the special exemption that they can charge forever less a day for all copies of a one-off work, which the guy building the car, making the furniture or designing the TV doesn't get.
So yes, it's utterly fair. You want to pay $60? Fine. Not happy with it? Don't buy it. If I want to buy it, I have the perfectly legal choice of paying £40 for it new, or a lot less for it second-hand. So cry me a river.
There is also a fallacy in thinking that preventing second-hand sales would miraculously lead to a like-for-like increase in first-hand sales. If I can't afford $40 for a new game, or unless it's something I badly want (which is rare), I'll just go spend my money on something else, like a book or music or food out, or even a toy for my kid. How much is the game developer getting there? Am I 'forcing' you to pay extra then?
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And any country producing such gems as 'Jersey Shore' cannot possibly complain about the local output of any other country!
Disclaimer: I know the UK has 'The Only Way Is Essex' (TOWIE).
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The only downside to your obsession is that I may stop bothering to show pinked-out comments and miss some of OotB's slightly more lucid rants.
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Aren't there some kind of cyberbullying laws that can be thrown at this clown? Because this very much sounds like self-admitted bullying to me!
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