Quote: "It's no different than buying and downloading Photoshop then turning around and selling it. You just can't resell digital... anything."
That's the point. We SHOULD be able to. I paid my my money to purchase said item. I SHOULD be able to sell it to someone if I so please. Say I just don't use it anymore or I upgraded or something.
The problem is, developers, well mostly publishers essentially make it impossible for this to happen. Things like we own a license to play and not a physical copy, so we can't resell it.
Now, reselling a game without any money being made for the publisher/dev is detrimental to the industry. So I'm not saying that we shouldn't give them a cut on resold software. I'm saying we should.
Think about it. If you really love a game, you are going to get it the day it comes out or shortly there after (or preorder) and pay full price. If you're on the edge and wait to see a buddy's review or whatever, and we had a resale system in place that makes money for the publisher/dev as well, you could buy it then off of your friend.
This would do wonders for piracy in my opinion. Granted piracy is a service issue, but imagine the people who do it because the game is too expensive or they were unsure of getting the game. It's a win-win. The person you are buying the game off of makes money, the dev/publisher makes money, and one less person to pirate the game.
