When your friends buy your game from you, and then that friend’s friend re-buys the game, those are lost sales. Your friends liked getting the game at a lower price, but if it was sold digitally for half your Used Price, everyone keeps their copy to play later, but the devs (okay, realistically in many cases; publisher) gets more money.
I’m not stating this to condemn you, honestly I’m far more fine with you trading with friends than the GameStop Used Market (a shitshow that wasn’t good for anyone); but you don’t build a compelling case for Sony to want to sell to you.
You seem really intent on inventing scenarios to dispute me. I own a RIDICULOUS amount of games. Games that I purchased directly, usually at launch. My friends do as well, we simply share or give each other some of the games. Or sometimes we lend them and that ends up convincing the other person to buy it. Sony and Nintendo have indeed gotten a boatload of my money over the years and that boat is sailing elsewhere.
But they’re not getting “your money”.
When your friends buy your game from you, and then that friend’s friend re-buys the game, those are lost sales. Your friends liked getting the game at a lower price, but if it was sold digitally for half your Used Price, everyone keeps their copy to play later, but the devs (okay, realistically in many cases; publisher) gets more money.
I’m not stating this to condemn you, honestly I’m far more fine with you trading with friends than the GameStop Used Market (a shitshow that wasn’t good for anyone); but you don’t build a compelling case for Sony to want to sell to you.
You seem really intent on inventing scenarios to dispute me. I own a RIDICULOUS amount of games. Games that I purchased directly, usually at launch. My friends do as well, we simply share or give each other some of the games. Or sometimes we lend them and that ends up convincing the other person to buy it. Sony and Nintendo have indeed gotten a boatload of my money over the years and that boat is sailing elsewhere.