Penny Arcade! – Words And Their Meanings
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010Today's Penny Arcade has started a bit of an online dialogue, focusing on the topic of buying games used vs. new.
Penny Arcade! - Words And Their Meanings.
A quote from the accompanying newspost:
The idea that THQ is somehow "disrespecting customers" with this kind of rhetoric misunderstands the situation as completely as it is possible to do so. In a literal way, when you purchase a game used, you are not a customer of theirs. If I am purchasing games in order to reward their creators, and to ensure that more of these ingenious contraptions are produced, I honestly can't figure out how buying a used game was any better than piracy. From the the perspective of a developer, they are almost certainly synonymous.
