All that money put to Drms just to prevent piracy was/is a complete waste. List of games that drm help prevent from being pirated
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Online passes just gaming companies jumping "loss of profit" bandwagon. Boohoo so what if 50,000 people brought your game used, stop thinking you need to get all the profits, grow up and move on. I'm all for supporting the developers but its not like they are getting reduced pay for every copy of their game brought 2nd hand/used. People will always get laid off or fire nothing prevent that.

Dlc, more like on-disk dlc needs to end or be offer free, why should I pay $X amount for something thats been on the disk the whole time?

Server issues...Multi billion dollar companies can't buy bigger servers before their game(s) comes out? Server issue is understandable if your company is very small but if you are about to release a game you are already expect a million+ or more ppl will be playing then buy the biggest server you can/available.

Sadly at the end of the day none of these things/trends will end. More than likely the will get worse as time goes on.

Like that will happen anytime soon. Hold on, let me wait till 11:11 and make a wish.

As much as I hate to admit, online passes do have merit. When companies like BEST BUY have enormous used game sections - I am sickened. This isn't just an issue about the consumer buying the game used, rather it is the growing trend that large companies are killing smaller devs by selling used games.

I don't think of GameStop as the place to go for new games. Rather it is a used game store that happens to also sell new games. To go step further, in my mind it is the place where new sealed games are kept artificially expensive to facilitate the constant re-circulation used games.

Agreed. Most the gaming shops where I live only do 2nd hand games or they will have a small new games and a large 2nd hand section.

and it actually goes beyond the obvious too. the thing that people often overlook when talking about the second hand market is the loss of shelf space. without shelf space the new games don't get exposed so much. some shops don't even bother ordering the more niche games because they want that space for their second hand offerings (which of course makes them more money)

it's about to get worse because the Vita will require shelf space too. now they can go one of two ways: shrink the existing shelf space down with 360/3DS/PSP/PS3 or remove the second hand games. now what do people think they'll do?

the passes are the only option. it's a short term answer to a long term problem. hopefully (and i believe this is the ultimate goal) the retailers will get backlashes from people who return the second hand games and complain about not being able to go online. the retailers will then have to reduce the prices further which will lead to them paying less for second hand games. this will result in more people holding onto games or selling them via the internet. at some point the retailers may opt to sell the real thing again.

this could take between 3 to 5 years but it needs to start now

This is not a black or white discussion - there is a lot to consider before actually proceeding to judge the reactions of game developers to the used-games market.
You are talking about "putting a company out of buisiness" - is that really necessary to prove the point here? What about companies who had to let go staff in order to compensate the losses, what about companies who had to let the support for a game die because they couldn't afford it any longer, companies who had to put back on their developing costs leading to rushed/buggy/unfinished games... etc.
Now - take shops like GameStop for example - they have a HUGE department of used games. You will now have the phenomenon apparent, that a game comes in (new retail), goes out (to a buyer), comes back in (as a used game), will be sold again (to a buyer), comes back in (as a used game), etc., etc.
Now - Gamestop makes profit (with a huge margin) every single time they re-sell the same game they already sold once, the developer however will only see a small profit from the first sale. Every other sale is not bringing him anything. So - you do not lose "a little bit", but "a lot". The Online-Passes are a try to cover this - but that can only go so far. They will however - and never will - not make MORE money from online-passes than from full priced retail games.

Piracy still affects the sales. Of course you can counter-argue, everytime, that not every pirated product is a loss in sale which is quite correct. But you still will lose sales, and a lot of them, to piracy. It is not something we can do a whole lot about, because DRM is worthless, except for offering services which will raise the value of the game beyond it's gameplay and thus making a pirated copy undesirable. But please just stop bulls*****g yourself and others that piracy somehow, mgaically cannot affect the sales of the product and is, moral-wise, totally acceptable.