Calling Them Out: Why I’ll Continue to Buy Used (and you should too).
Calling Them Out is a new series of featured articles on TheParanoidGamer where we, your favorite tin hat wearing writers, verbally dissect the most fetid and insidious of industry pandering articles being pumped out by the mass gaming media. Up on today’s butcher table is a real stinker of an article written by Slashgear.com’s Don Reisinger, a man who’ll never buy another game used and tells you why you shouldn’t either. Oh boy, here we go. [quote]Used video games have become a desirable purchase for many industry fans. With prices coming in at substantially lower amounts than new alternatives, it simply makes sense to many people to buy used titles. The more you save, the more products you can buy, right?[/quote] Well that’s not really all that true, considering that retailers sell used copies of newly released games for barely $5 or $10 off for the first several months. It’s also quite apparent that given the rising popularity of midnight releases that there are many gamers out there just chomping at the