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With DVDs there's a natural wait period between the time the movie comes out and the DVD is released, so they get that initial influx of cash from ticket sales. In that light, I think it would make sense for there to be a waiting period for games too, during which used game stores can only accept recently-released games after a certain period of time.

A game really isn't a piece of property in the conventional sense though, another fact that's highlighted by digital distribution. As cliche as it might sound, games are an experience, they just happen to come on a circular piece of plastic sometimes. You don't see movie theaters letting people keep their tickets and pass them to someone else after they come out of the building, much less sell them at "used" prices.

Seriously, Chaotic Heart is top-notch.

The thing is you can beat a game (assuming multiplayer or high scores or whatever isn't the main objective). Theoretically an arbitrarily large number of people could receive the full benefit of the game from just one purchase. In contrast, (most) people don't beat the need for transportation; if you sell your car you'll need to find a replacement. Who knows, you might even go to the same dealer. And since people tend to keep cars much longer than games, a car might change hands one or two times before reaching the end of its usefulness, while that Final Fantasy NES cartridge could still be floating around within your group of friends 20 years after you bought it. Of course, games do go out of print and companies do go out of business, so I'm in favor of allowing people to buy used games if solely for that purpose (although digital distribution services like Steam and GameTap are starting to solve that as well). But otherwise I try to buy new when possible in order to support the developers since, from a financial standpoint, buying used is really no different to them from just pirating it. Even renting would help them more.

Brandon Bush, Closet Furry.

WOOOOOOAAAAAAGH Happy birthday you giant pianist!

I think used sales are just the price developers pay for gamers being cheapskates. :/ A lot of those reasons you just listed could apply to piracy as well.

Poo on you it was like 3 in the morning.

Imogen more liek EMOGEN. ... http://dhsu.vgpiano.com/misc/songthatwillnevergiveyouup.mp3

Well the only thing I know is that it was performed by Marc Fossey a.k.a. "GigaShadow" and it's from 2002.

Man, "No Better Time Than Now" is awesome. Dang. Well you can fudge the actual dates, just a general idea would be nice. And you can always check the dates in the finished tracks forum. And for OverCoat: http://dhsu.vgpiano.com/misc/ToP_MysticForest.mp3 (This is not me. Also lol @ 32kbps 11KHz MP3.)

I think some people like the feeling that they are "hacking" something, at least indirectly. Personally I'm making enough money and am so backlogged at this point that if I don't want to pay for a game, I just don't get it. If it's not worth my money, it's definitely not worth my time. (...unless it's an import :3 )

You know, what we really need is a timeline showing when each track was finished, along with all the deadlines we had. Mustin actually forgot ever working on my track, haha.

Also kudos to The Joker for practically doing a disc's worth of tracks himself.

"Epitaph"?

Actually I checked the link again and I don't see anything about a competition or any sort of prize. Looks like it's just for fun.

Wow, 200 entries already...the judges have their work cut out for them.

Kudos to Kureejii on the killer trackname art, very impressive.

Haha, I feel bad getting a co-credit for contributing barely 10% of the remix. Glad ya'll are liking it though! Sixto did a rockawesome job (and in TWO DAYS). Be sure to check out the WIP of my collab with SnappleMan in the bonus tracks, and then make fun of him for being a lazy son of a gun.

It's like the lyrics to an emo song.

As long as it stops spies from doing the same thing I'm okay with it.

Well now I really have to start one...we have a reputation to keep after all!

>:M BAKBAK Also:

lol atmuh

Sorry guys, the Earthworm Jim project I started yesterday is taking precedence. Better luck next month!