Pre-owned market had "big" effect on Halo, says Bungie dev

FreestyleBarnacle - 457 days 12 hours ago

Because we all want to buy things but not own them. That's called rental, it's in the dictionary look it up.

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Fishy Fingers - 457 days 12 hours ago

Reading between the lines... DRM.

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RealityCheck - 457 days 11 hours ago

Not surprising that they would tout DRM laced downloads as the solution to their problem... unfortunately that would be the start of the regular consumers' nightmares.

I buy all my games (never pirated) but go down the download-only route and people like me will either move exclusively to competitors that still use discs, start pirating, or stop playing. Your move.

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Wildarmsjecht - 457 days 11 hours ago

I don't know. When I have a disc based game, I like the fact that I can let a friend who wasn't fortunate enough to afford the game at the time borrow it so he can possibly enjoy it. With digital distribution who's to say thats possible given the limits that would most definately be placed on how many times you can download any given content.

If DD allows for unlimited downloads at no extra cost, i can see its appeal, but even then, they would probably be worse off because people would download them on their friends and families devices over and over again.
Theres too much to consider when it comes to DD ( I wont even get into the bandwith issue since thats something we all know by now)

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Sircolby45 - 457 days 10 hours ago

"to create a "system that is good and fair to both" consumers and developers."

*cough* BS *cough*

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FantasyStar - 457 days 10 hours ago

....is that day I stop gaming all-together.

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juanvan - 457 days 9 hours ago

This is why there is preowned..
They should get a piece of there profit Again when gamestop/EB resell the game.. That would solve all this. b/c in theory - when one trades in a game they are giving the rights of the game back to the Org seller - Just so happens its a retail store instead of the company its' self.

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vhero - 457 days 9 hours ago

its because they didnt sell as many per console sold as the first 2 games because compared to the first 2 games it sucked. This is a pathetic excuse from a company who should stop crying about spilt milk. Honesly it takes millions to make a game which sells for £40($60 in states) compared to movies which cost more than 10X as much and sell for £10 ($16 in the states).

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GeoffreyC - 457 days 9 hours ago

I think the pricing of the 360's Marketplace content is evidence enough of not being all that concerned for the consumer. Take the Xbox Originals program, for instance. $15 is not a good price for those games, even for the physical copy. Most of those titles sell for less than $8, and you still have the option to lend it to a friend, give it away or get a few dollars of trade in for if you decide you are done with it.

The used game market came from a need for retailers to stay in business. If they cared so much about eliminating the used market, they would let retailers make a profit on the new games. As it stands, I spend $54-$56 on a title that I have to sell at $60. The problem comes when a title doesn't sell and the price drops in half. When that happens, which is often, I now have to sell 11 full-price games games to break even on the 11 and the 1 that dropped to $30. We have to sell the used games to be able to afford to sell the new. It is not normal retail where the retailer makes 30-70% markup. That would be heaven to us and would keep us from selling used games.

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kevnb - 457 days 9 hours ago

and with a 5 hour campaign, this is to be expected. Especially since the other Halo games had longer and more replayable single player campaigns.

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tuaamin13 - 457 days 7 hours ago

I want infinite redownloads on my personal system, plus a way to switch systems (via console serial numbers or something) to my new console should mine break. I want to be able to switch it, not rely on some tech to do it for me.

Also, games are going to have to be AT LEAST half the price they currently are before I consider it. I'm not paying $60 for something I don't have in my hand.

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Fanboy Slaughter - 457 days 6 hours ago

That if most people couldn't buy it pre-owned, they just flat out wouldn't buy it.

I'm not about to pay full price for a "new" game I see a year or two down the line, I'd rather pay $20 or $30 for that used game that's 2 years old and obviously no longer worth $60.

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litaljohn - 457 days 6 hours ago

oh wow I forgot that once I buy a car and sell it down the road I was supposed to give more money to ford..... I can't believe I was thinking when you buy something, YOU OWN IT to do with it what you want....

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*_* - 457 days 12 hours ago

((so people played it hated it and sold it i dont see a problem))

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thatCanadianguyisgay - 457 days 11 hours ago

I AGREE WITH YOU SMILEY FACE

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Freezingduck - 457 days 5 hours ago

Halo 1 was 10x better

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