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Used games shops like these, profit greatly off the work of the developer and publishers. And while this is completely legal, in practice they function exactly like boot leggers, the only differnce is they did not product thier own copies.

I am pro consumer, and strongly believe the bussiness models of GameStop and Game will harm the industry overall. Publishers are already moving to a digital distribution only, just to try to take a cut out the second retailer market, and there we are already losing something. There should be a second hand market where the publishers and developers get a cut of the high profit / high volume second hand sales, else we will lose phyiscal media copies forever.

A second hand market for out of print games is a necessary one, so that retro and classic games can find the way to avid collectors. But in that case the publisher already decided there is no longer profit to be made with that title.

Pre order bonuse content and new game purchase incentive content/featues are just plainly annoying. For the first we must now decide at which retailer we must buy game, as all of the game content is not available at any one store. For the second we must jump through more hoops just to able to access content that should already just be there.

GameStop and it's like are to blame for the whole mess."