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"pc games" <pcgame...@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> Suppose you want to play game "xyz" very much so you decide to get it,
> and you have the following choices:
> 1. Buy NEW factory sealed from your local store
> 2. Borrow it from a friend cause your friend already bought it
> 3. Buy the game in the Used 2nd hand market
> 4. PIRATE it by illegally downloading from a P2P network
>
> Now what I'm saying is please choose number one, the one were you buy
> the game NEW Factory sealed
> Now choice 4 is illegal so I bet you will not try and defend it but
> choice 2 and 3 are not illegal but at this point in time with the PC
> Game market declining in sales those are choices we should avoid
> That is really what I'm saying
> Due to the decline in PC Game sales which is making less games being
> made and released we should try and avoid using the 2nd hand market
> and lending to friends cause both can reduce some sales

False conclusion based on a bunch of assumptions:

assumption 1) your friend ALWAYS have a copy of what you wanted
assumption 2) 2nd hand market ALWAYS have a copy of what you wanted
assumption 3) stuff's already available as warez
assumption 4) you actually can afford ANY game you want
assumption 5) the store always have what you wanted in stock

I'll leave assumption 5 out since it makes the discussion rather moot if 
the
game in question is not available.

Unless it's a lousy console game you can really "finish" in a weekend, 
there's
no way you'll find a used copy or a copy available from a friend within 
the
first two or three weeks of release any way. And if the developers and
copy protection do their job, nor will the pirated copy. Those generally
appear about 1 to 2 weeks after the official release, and even then they 
often
run into problems, and it generally takes 3-4 weeks to see stable warez.

The developers, distributors, and retailers knows all this. The first 30 
days
of a release sees 80% of the sales revenue. After that, discounts, 
warez,
and such take their toll so that the overall revenue increase will be 
minimal.

If you really want to FULLY SUPPORT the PC game market, i.e. make
sure you pump the MAX amount of your dollars into the industry, you need
to buy the game at FULL PRICE, the day the game comes out.

However, your original assumption also left out a couple more factors:

a) If I can borrow "the game" from my friend, what would I do with the 
$$$
I originally allocated for "the game"? Should I buy "the other game" 
with it, so
I can lend it to my friend so we'd be even and he won't call me a leech?

b) If I can buy "the game" at 2nd hand store, thus save 50% (assume $25 
savings)
off retail, what would I do with that $25? Could I get another 2nd hand 
game
with that $25, thus giving me TWICE the enjoyment? And the person who 
traded
in those games, he got credit so he got MORE GAMES, didn't he? All these
used games got to come from SOMEWHRE, which means SOMEONE DID buy
new games, and traded them in. So someone got a part of their $$$ back 
to be
invested on something else, perhaps new games, perhaps used games, 
perhaps
others. It's MORE $$$ in the industry!

You can't just hold up your side of the issue and proceed to eviscerate 
the stance
without considering all the ancillary factors.

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