I don't. Its as archaic as "Personal property taxes" I have to pay each year.

Once the item is sold once, all monies that can ever be expected were incurred at that point. You cannot ever expect that a game that is sold multiple times to be part of the payment process of the original design team.

Now, I might be persuaded to acknowledge some money loss due to someone making multiple copies of a game and selling those. If someone is buying them, they should go to the designers. Any single/original title once sold is 100% out of the design teams purview. PERIOD.

? quoting Addicted to Morphine

I don't mean to disagree with you on everything today Orpheus but the logic you used when talking about making multiple copies and selling those also applies to a person who is simply selling a used game. Say a game comes out today. I buy it and don't like it and decide to sell it to someone tomorrow. The person buying it from me would otherwise have bought it at a store, and so the game company loses money. I come out ahead and the company comes out behind... which wouldn't seem like such a bad thing except in the long run a game company needs money to continue to produce good products.

Thats pure crap bud. The one title you bought had its money sent to the people who made it. Why in the world would you expect them to receive yet another bit of cash simply because the next person bought your disk? You are no longer using it, and most likely never ever will again so there are not TWO owners, only one. the new person.

So lets carry your warped sense of value to the next logical step.

Lets pass a law that clearly states "Once you've bought it, you can never depart from it on penalty of.. Whatever you feel is a just penalty"

So the people selling the game can sell many more titles?

Now I realize that this whole conversation is losing most of its intelligence because text is making me look stupid/assholeish to you, and vice versa.

Everything you have typed today sounds so absurd that I cannot imagine how an intelligent being could say it. The only thing I can say is, text is making you sound dumb.

and

I am nearly positive that on some level you are thinking the exact same thing about me.

ain't life a bitch...

Actually, when I think of Doc Brasso, I see a Mel Gibson in Mutiny on the bounty type. Not some has been sailor wannabe.

You are much more respected than you seem to wanna let on bud.

? posted by Addicted to Morphine

I don't think we should make it illegal to sell your stuff, but at the same time you have to admit selling stuff second-hand cuts into the profits of the game companies.

well, lets see.....when they set up their initial prospectus for the endeavour, they take a set of numbers to use as targets, they have to to get the backing, and all with some assurances of one kind of another....in my case, we had to pay off the debt before any real paychecks were signed.....

now, i must qualify this at this point by saying, we did not pay off our debt solely by cd sales.....s**t no....it sucked, it tanked, and we ended up on the road to help expedite contract resolution.....i digress..

.....and then the real profit starts to roll in....its all clear, and comes in big chunks....and as quick as it comes in, it goes away.....thats the way it works for most "real" musicians, and why basicly any real road musician youve ever known is a tight fisted sob, with an attitude as far as money goes...guaranteed... " SRC="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif"> the window of opportunity closes in most cases as quickly as it opens.....

bologna and "hand" sandwiches i heard them called once...lol it aint bulls**t...

point is atm, they set targets, and ones that also include their minimum and maximum profits, and anything after that is pure and simple greed....

anyay, i hope that sheds a bit of light....

Doc...

you sound like bill gates fishman..." SRC="images/smiles/icon_lol.gif">

*posted by fishman

no you shouldnt....thats resale

if its a unique table design, and you start mass producing exact replicas of that table, and heres the kicker, if i knew you were going to mass produce them, then its no ones fault but mine if i didnt get the cash out of it as a good businessman should.

if you however, build them without my knowledge or consent, then there is a problem....

thats reproduction....business "birds and bees", 101

Doc...

Here's the whole thing. People who pirate the songs are NOT GONNA BUY THE CD! They would just steal it from the store! If they're not gonna buy it anyway, how is that LOSING money? You can't LOSE money you never had.