It would be funny if next next-gen systems have burners inside them that label each disc when it's first played so it only works with your specific console MAC address or serial number

All they'd need was a proprietary device which burned your SN or MAC address onto the TOP of the disc instead of the bottom. That way it would be more difficult to burn on a PC, or possibly use an embedded chip in the disc

If you want to stop preowned sales, make a game that no one ever wants to let go. Then it'll never be traded in.

As far as how it would affect me, I hardly ever buy used or sell games so it really wouldn't. (I hate buying used and getting a beat up disc for $5 less than the retail cost).

Trading in at stores only helps the store owner. Gamers get ripped off with trade in prices, at least that is true in the UK. You might get £15 for a game on trade in and then see it back on the shelves marked up at a few pounds less than the cost of a brand new version. "make a game that no one ever wants to let go" even classic games like Gears of War, Gran Turismo 5: Prologue, Metal Gear Solid 4 get traded in. In the long run I think it will only end up hurting the end user as publishers increase costs to cover the money lost in sales to trade-ins.

In my honest opinion no current gen game should be allowed in a used game shop for buy, trade or sell. All there is to it.

Ps3, xbox 360 and wii games should, under no circumstances, be bought, sold or traded in at Gamestops, EB games and so forth and so on. It is only hurting the industry more and more. current gen games should also not be allowed on amazon and ebay, either.

I think all games should go through a 5 year cycle before they are allowed into the used market.

Granted I personally don't trade in my games anymore, I'm glad everyone else does. Because just about every game in my collection is a used one, simply for the fact that they cannot be found any longer.

Buying a used game gives collectors a chance to pick up a masterpiece that someone else either didn't like or was overlooked. Not to mention it also gives someone more incentive to buy a game when it's used at $19.99 instead of buying new at $50 or $60, and if that person likes the game, more tham likely when either a sequel comes out, or if they end up liking games from that developer, maybe they'll then think it's worth it to buy their next game new.

Uncharted and Burnout Paradise,great condition for cheap. Best deal I ever made. amazing games. Truly amazing.

This is a real problem in the industry and finding out a way for a developer to prevent used game sales would put alot less pressure on studio's as every copy being sold is going to them instead of the shop selling the game. This is one of the many reasons devs don't take chances on anything anymore if they can't guarantee a profit they may as well not try. Personally I don't buy used games I like to support the dev making the game and not the annoying clerk trying to get me to buy 20 things i don't want.

Here's away to stop people from trading in games they own, Make Better games.. if the game is so fun people won't trade it in... you put out trash and wonder why people don't want it

@m-s-8-2

By supporting the store by buying used games keeps them in business therefore allowing that clerk to keep his job which is therefore supporting the clerk. I don't know if they get a commission but clerks at gamestop HAVE to ask you if you want the used copy or if you want this game or if you wanna subscribe to some random magazine. That is the reason I stopped shopping at those stores.

then shut ur trap, go to the drawin board and make a game consumers wont want to trade. it makes me laugh when i see articles like these. some developers wana be lazy and feed us garbage games but they dont want us to trade those garbage games in.if developers keep gving us crap games like beowulf the game, spiderman 3 the game, iron man and the list goes on what do you expect us to do keep ur crap like a trophy. please you cant stop us consumers so dont even try

How about making a game worth paying full price for? Like MGS4! If there's a truly foolproof way of stopping 2nd hand games, places like Gamestop and Gamecrazy would go bankrupt.

The only reason developers and publishers want to get rid of pre-owned, is that they get no money on the resale of the games.

@ What you disagreeing for? That is the reason.

well, i'm all for stopping the sell pre-owned games. it's bad for development studios (who are already under financial constraints as it is), which will ultimately end bad for gamers. plus, i'm not too keen on making a purchase that will result in 100% profit for a company like Gamestop; private companies, yeah, but not Gamestop. Gamestop usually employees some of the biggest fanboys imaginable, and usually offers nigh nill incentive to even purchase pre-owned, seeing as they only knock off $5 max from new prices. and thats assuming you can actually find a pre-owned game in good condition: most pre-owned games at Gamestop have horribly scratched discs, don't have the original box, and don't have manuals. i'd rather just spend the extra $5 for a new copy in mint condition.

about the only advantage i can see in selling pre-owned games is for older games that aren't in circulation anymore. even still you can usually find what you're looking for on ebay, and that's going back as far as the NES era--most new/used outlets don't even sell games from the pre-sixth-generation era, leaving ebay as your only option for fifth-generation and prior.

Its hard to support places like gamestop when they wanna charge almost new prices on used games but then they dont wanna pay us hardly anything for used games.I dont use these places anymore.

I never trade in any of my games, I keep all the games I buy. I like to build up a gaming collection, so selling or trading them makes no sense to me. Plus, I've always found time to play games that I haven't played in several months or a few years all over again.

Which sucks since I cant sell anything I buy on there. Luckily I have only bought the Orange Box and Flatout 2. These games just sit on my computer because I cant sell them.

"Developer" ..

David Braben is a fkin legend!

does this guy work for EA games cus it really would not surprise me.

Where do you think those used games come from? They come from people who buy the games new. If people couldnt sell a game they bought that would also impact sales. Alot of people buy games more often because they know they can sell them off when they are done in order to help pay or another new game.

Keeping them from selling their games may also keep them from buying new games as often as they do now.

if you re-sell your games to a game store you will be ripped off.

ive never sold a game, but DMC4 may be that first game. what a waste of 60 bucks! shows you must always use your gut when it comes to buying new games. don't buy into the hype. you droids could have saved lots of money, too, what with turds like lesbian sword, lair, haze, and MGS.

Great games will always be purchased new for me. It's the ones that should not cost $60 that I will not buy new. Why should all games cost $60 new? Not all games are equal in quality. All other things in retail are priced based on quality. I would pay $60 for Killzone2, Gears2, and other games that are worth it, but for soo games I refuse to pay more than $30 for them.

The gamestop near me are total 360 fanboys. They wear 360 hats, keychains, and shirts. It's really pathetic.

I got into a argument with them once for trying to tell customers that 40% of PS3 and Wii's have hardware problems. They also told this poor old man buying GTA4 for his son that buying the 360 bundle was the only way to play online. lol

This will never stop, even if they made a game that everyone would love why? because not everyone will love the same game! its human nature everyone is different... For example, Lots of people like Halo but then again lots hate it because its another FPS... same with MGS i have no interest in it right now because i have not played the originals at all... maybe once but didnt hook me at the time (that was when FPS games were starting to spike so they were the new hit thing for me lol) if i can find an Orginal PSX one somewhere that wont cost me an Arm and a leg ill buy it lol

Instead of taking a crap on us, the consumer, they should attempt to have a law passed that requires retail shops and corporations to have special licensees or royalty deals in order to resale used games.

In other words go after Gamestop (and others) instead of us.

LOL if I buy something I should be able to do whatever the F I want with it. Plain and simple as that. Now go F yourself.

Without a pre-owned system some people couldn't afford to game.

What's next, ID tagging weapons on the battlefield so they can't be used by anyone else? Oh wait... I really need to get out of the house.

Tell you what...Stop making games that last 8 hours and have zero replay value and I'll stop buying used games. Very rarely do I buy single player games that I know I'll beat in a few plays. That's when I buy it used so I can not only save a lot of money (on average about $10 or more than a new game) but I can return it in 7 days. If not I can trade it in and have only payed about $20 for the game.

And all you that criticize the workers at Gamestop, yes, they're doing they're job. I don't know if you've never worked but EVERY job has something called rules and performance expectations. These come down as mandates from bosses. If you don't do the mandate then you don't have a job. It's that simple. So every time those kids ask you for a magazine subscription, a reserve, or used game, it's because they have to.

And if you think they should get another job, maybe they should, but getting 15% off of new games and about 25% off used games, when you're a gamer, is hard to pass up.

If you want to spend $60 on a game that only offers $5-8 hours of game play, or worse, sucks, or if you want to keep your games forever then that's on you. But don't criticize those of us who use services like Gamestop or any other pawn-type shop where we can actually reap some reward.

So you paid $60 for the game. You trade it in for $30...That means you only paid $30...Not bad.

I am all for stopping resale of games, it hurts the industry and its one of the main reasons why studios struggle and dont give a s*^^ about their final product. I also thing they should price their games according to how good they are. Paying $60 for games such as sonic sucks. They should be honest to themselves and price their games according to their quality.

I can empathize with a developer who puts his heart and soul into a game only to see a lot of used copies sold, and the money doesn't go to the people involved in creating it.

I can also empathize with gamers who don't have money to drop 60 bucks on every new game that comes out, and with employees at stores who depend on people wanting to buy used games, such as GameStop and Blockbuster. What to do, what to do. My vote is to let people buy and sell used games.

i only buy and sell my used games on ebay, anything else is just a rip off. ebay ftw, ebngames trade in prices FTL

sales of new games to drop. I would buy a lot less games if I couldn't trade in my old ones. What's next they going to prevent people from renting games?

Make games that warrant me paying 60 bucks then people wouldn't sell them this also goes for content in a game. Example if I was to buy Vampire Rain a lame excuse for a game its unfair to charge me 60 dollars for a game that is horrible. This guy also made Lost Winds for the Wii a bad game for the virtual console so go figure he would be the one to say this utter crap.

Bill Pullman

This would suck. I usually sell my games on eBay and get a lot more money than a trade-in. Without the money from sales on eBay, I'd buy a lot less games. Lets face it: only AAA games are actually worth $60.

Somehow I don't think this will happen...

I do not see anything wrong in the industry right now.... its been like this for how long since the beginning and all the industry did was grow even more...

Its my game, I can do whatever I want with it.

Case in point is the now discontinued Xbox. Everyone knows the 360 has crappy BC. I was glad I didnt turn my original Xbox in when the 360 was released. Cause now there is a huge library of used xbox games out there that are dirt cheap. In fact Gamestop is running a buy two get one free deal as I type. You cant beat a 5 dollar game which you passed up when it was 50.

One thing that is pissing me off is the rare game trade. You have cats out there selling a copy of the original Silent hill for 50 bucks???? If konami was smart they would release a dlc version of the original psx hit and let me buy it that way for 10 bucks. Since I cant bring myself to play and beat the other titles in the series till I own the first one.

As an ex-Gamestop employee...

...I have this to say.

If you can't find it new, buy it used! How hard is that? A lot of games are hard to find used, let alone new. I mean, all of the Silent Hill's, the Fatal Frames, Okami, and some other rare gems...they're not easy to find.

If it's a PS3 or DS game, there's no purpose to buy it new unless it's for a Christmas gift or something. Blu-ray's are incredibly hard to scratch and, obviously, nobody ever breaks a cartridge.

Fine...I'll spill.

I may or may not know a couple of things happening at Gamestop right now.

1) They're realizing that sites like Gamefly and stores like Best Buy are giving gamers a lot more money for their games. When customers start to realize this, it's curtains for Gamestop.

2) By selling to the inner-city demographic, they're getting more reserves, more subscriptions, more trade-ins, and more unfed children who will grow up to become heroine addicts.

3) They're modernizing everything...making it easier to find things, easier to spot the "deals". With the gaming community growing like nobody's business, they know they can do whatever they want...for at least a little bit. They will suck you dry.

4) Honestly, the reserve system isn't bad. It's an easy way to pay off a game over time, instead of all at once. Most people don't have 60 bucks lying in their pockets at all times.

F*** you.

Must most of there profit of selling used products.

They only get a small percent off the sells of new merchendise.

So not to drag it out no used sales = no retailers to sell new games and i dont trust online stores so that would suck.

the ONLY solution to this in my eyes is to reduce the RETAIL price of games. There's no incentive to go out and buy a Used game for $25 when the thing new is $30. But it becomes a WHOLE different story when it's $60 new. THINK STUPIDS!!!

first game that does this...i'm boycotting it!!...if devs have the right to do whatever they want with a game ( like forcing me to own it forever) F$#K tham, what if my brother (who lives in philly- im in NY) wants to borrow it? then what. what if I break my ps3/xbox? and have to get a new system?

THat is BS, What the hell is wrong with buying used games. Many retailers do it. Also how could they lock games, when some of them are used as rentals. Do they want the first person who registers it online to be the only one who can use it? that doesnt make F!cking sense.

Ridiculous idea from the genius who gave us ELITE. Loved the game on my c64 and amiga. Anyway, curtailing sales of used is not a good idea. To reduce losses what can be done is that companies/stores selling used copies should pay some kind of trading fees to publishers/devs but not reflecting the cost on the selling price.

OK OK I M MARRIED
THE MONEY I TAKE HERE IN GREECE R VERY LITTLE..........
I MUST PAY BILLS,RENT,FOOD,CLOTHES,CAR INSURANCE ETC.......

IF I HAVE TO PAY 70 EUROS FOR A GAME THEN I LL BE OUT OF MY HOME..............
SO I KNOW A STORE THAT I CAN TRADE MY GAME OR BUY A USED ONE FOR 20-35 EURO OR

SO A F.......G DEVELOPER CANT DENY THIS TO US I WISH I HAVE THE MONEY TO BUY THEM ALL NEW BECAUSE I LIKE THE SMELL BUT WE ALL MUST HAVE R COMPROMISES EVEN THIS I.......T DEVELOPER ..............

It's like saying people shouldn't be able to sell their used cars. Totally ridiculous.

I just cant see this happening......