sexy joker asked:


they still purchase used Playstation, xbox, and nintendo games

Blaine

4 Responses to “why did game stop and electronic boutique stop purchasing used PC games?”

1. Chris N on December 14th, 2009 1:41 pm

   i dont really no why eb stop accepted used pc games i think its cause lots of them need product codes and its all 2 do with piracy and somethings like the special offers and codes for things like steam once registered cant b reused so they dont accept them

2. Lady Flash Cry on December 17th, 2009 11:54 pm

   my fiance wanted to know the same thing because he has so many pc games he doesn’t need anymore, and I was able to trade in or get rid of my old ps, ps2,n64 games lol… I think it could have something to do with key codes or easily being copied??
   just a guess lol

   Have a Good One ^_^

3. nancygoldman@sbcglobal.net on December 21st, 2009 6:07 am

   Because , computer software is so cheap to buy new , that they won’t make a reasonable profit selling used pc games

4. Kasey C on December 22nd, 2009 4:19 pm

   Ease of piracy on the PC side, mostly, and liability.

   Games are returned for all sorts of reasons, often “it won’t run on my machine”, and those end up in the used aisle, when it fact it was copied and cracked and keycode stolen. Next person bought it can’t play because keycode was already registered. With prevalence of keycodes on games there’s simply no point in selling used copies unless there’s a simple and foolproof mechanism to transfer keycodes from one owner to another, and that ain’t gonna happen until all the game makers united and use common standard/mechanism.

   PC games are also easily copied with that’s on the machine. At least with a console, it doesn’t come with (or you can’t download stuff to it) that allows it to copy games. Console games are copied ON a PC.