Lionhead: Pre-owned worse than PC piracy
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
Fable III developer Lionhead has told Eurogamer that second-hand (pre-owned) sales on Xbox 360 are today a bigger problem than piracy on PC.
Fortunately, Lionhead has already managed to cover development costs with first-hand Xbox 360 sales, which are “in their millions”.Nevertheless,
piracy will still affect Fable III on PC, and there’s “not much you can do about it”.
“Piracy these days on PC is probably less problematic than second-hand sales on the Xbox,” declared lead Fable III combat designer Mike West.
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See this is why console gaming sux.
When a person buys a game at retail price, part of the value of that game to the person is the ability to sell it used. If it were illegal to sell used games (and if that was somehow enforcable), some people may not think the retail price is worth it. Do car companies think Used Car dealerships are as big a problem as auto thefts? Does the Gap think the salvation army is as big a threat as people stealing from the mall? Give me a fucking break. Publishing companies claiming that this is somehow similar to piracy seems like a load of shit to me.