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u buy a full price game from a store and sony gets the money for that sale right

but here is were i dont agree with sony on this whole piracy shit

u decide to sell that game so u take it to an exchange shop for less money than u actually paid for it

so when someone buys that game from the exchange shop who gets the money for the sale

it aint sony that gets it so they lose 1 sale of the game from new

i would rather buy preowned games than full price retail games

so for all the people downloading pirated games this is just like buying preowned games coz either way sony doesnt get money for the game

how many people on this forum actually pay full price for games

so why is sony tossing the "system will be used for pirate games"

when they dont get revenue from us buying preowned games from pawnbrokers

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most of my games are preowned from gamestop tbh

I don't condone video game piracy, but other stuff? count me in ^

lol but sony doesnt make money from preowned sale games and piracy they dont make money

so i see when i pirating games as buying them preowned

well ive bought a few games full retail price and traded them in but guess wot

i downloaded them and put them on my ps3 coz lets face it i paid ful price once for them games

so i owned them and even if i sold them sony still got my money from the sale

I don't think that pre-owned games are pirated, I just think that there a cheaper price for the same shiz :black:

yea they are cheaper but your missing my point

full price= goes to sony

preowned= got to the pawnbroker

piracy= no 1 gets the money

im not saying that preowned games are pirated im trying to say that sony are whingin about piracy and lost revenue but unless u buy the game full price from the retailer sony doesnt see the money

My saying is: If i didn't download a game, then why would i buy it? If i do download it, then there really is no point in paying for it. LOL either way they aren't getting my money. I'm not saying piracy isn't wrong but damn it i just want to play games <_<. Also im lazy and don't like swapping disc. I did pay for games full price: Mgs4, gta4, narutostorm2, acbh, mw2, and black ops.

Also noone gets money if you borrow or trade with friends

Sony themselves aren't worried about pre-owned games. It's only a few companies (EA) that are upset at the amount of people buying pre-owned games, because they don't make any profit from these sales. That's why EA started doing this online access bullshit with games, so people are now being limited to a few days online if they don't buy the game new and need to buy the online pass, people buy the game new, get the online pass for free.

When you trade in a game, should that game be resold, all the profits go to the store. Stores will of course give you less than the game is worth, sell it a higher price for profit and at the same time, sell it for less than an original. So if people start buying pre-owned games, developers/publishers are losing out on a brand new game being sold.

However it isn't piracy. Imagine buying a used car and being told you're a car thief. It is the exact same concept. You buy a used car, the profits go to the original owner or the car dealership you bought it from. It doesn't go back to Ford, or whatever company produced the car. Just like when you buy a used game, it goes to the seller of the game, not the developer.

yea what im trying to say is that sony bang on about piracy being the main reason of these jailbreaks

but infact ever since preowned games have been sold sony loses money

because people would rather buy a used copy of a game than pay full price

i will also say that £50-£60 a game is outragous and they only have themselves to blame

This thread is dumb. If you pirate a game no one at all profits besides you. Atleast when you buy a pre-owned game it was already bought once. If everyone pirated a game then the company wouldn't make any money. It is impossible for everyone to buy a pre-owned game. I'm sorry but your logic is flawed.

Piracy does not equal pre-owned.