[dylan604]

>I used to unapologetically pirate video games and only within the past two years have I finally come full circle and begun purchasing games, both new titles and older ones I had played in the past but never paid for until now.

If you are buying games/software as used, do the original creators see a dime of that purchase or is it just as if you never did pay for it?

[Jenk]

They didn't say used.

Also that is such reductive argument. When I sell my furniture to someone else am I supposed to pity the carpenters and whatnot?

How about when I sell my house, should the developers who built it get a cut?

[chucksmash]

> How about when I sell my house, should the developers who built it get a cut?

Only a matter of time?

Some NFTs used this as (an additional) money grab - every time the NFT is resold, N% of the purchase price goes to devs - so the idea is definitely out there in other forms today.

[dylan604]

Book publishers were hot on this too some time back expecting used book stores to kick back up the chain. It came around again with eBooks. It's definitely not a new thought to be sure.

[dylan604]

Yeah, I guess it reads like that's what I was implying.

I was just asking if original creators get a cut of the used price. I had seen discussions around that before, but didn't know if it ever became a thing or not. Just a simple question. Wasn't trying to be reductive and did not mean to piss in your cheerios this mornign

[mos_basik]

Op didn't say "new and used"; they said "new and older".

Since the context is that of piracy, I think it's most likely that op wasn't saying he used to buy bootleg physical DVDs for a console, but rather that they used to download executables for a personal computer.

If so, I've also come around to buying games in about the same manner as OP describes. Your question sounds odd to me, because I've never purchased a "used" game; since about 2011 when i gained access to stable internet every game I've purchased has been a digital purchase from an official distributor or directly from the creators.

There are other discussions to be had about whether digital purchases with online drm are truly purchases or rather subscriptions, and whether the cost of a AAA title should still be as high as it is given that you can't resell it the way you could when they were physical (and how inflation plays into things), etc, but those are out of scope here.

And then there's unauthorized resellers like g2a. I'll admit I've bought from there in the past, but I stopped after reading a great breakdown of how these hurt game developers more than piracy. These are a little like the used market for digital (certainly the creators don't get any of the money changing hands). But there are differences - since usually, once a key is consumed to play a game, it can no longer be resold. I assume this affects the market to look quite different from, say, gamestop.

[dylan604]

>Your question sounds odd to me,

Really? GameStop and other extinct companies made an entire business model of selling your used games to them and then selling those at cheaper prices to new customers. That sounds odd to you?