{"id":1382,"date":"2011-09-12T13:51:01","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T20:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2011-09-12T13:55:01","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T20:55:01","slug":"heavy-rain-used-sales-damaging-to-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/?p=1382","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Rain used sales damaging to Industry?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz<\/a>, Guillaume de Fondaumiere (co-CEO and founder of Quantic Dream) expressed his opinion of how used video game sales are damaging to the video game industry.<\/p>\n

In particular, he cited sales figures of their hit, PS3 exclusive, video game Heavy Rain.\u00a0 According to Guillaume, Heavy Rain was played on more than 3 million PS3 systems (based on Trophy data).\u00a0 Since they recorded sales of only 2 million copies of the game then he estimates that over 1 million copies were purchased second hand (I assume including rentals & borrowed copies).<\/p>\n

To quote Guillaume, “…my calculation is, as Quantic Dream, I lost between \u20ac5 and \u20ac10 million worth of royalties because of second hand gaming.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Now, I’m sure Guillaume is a great guy, but that’s a pretty bold statement.\u00a0 Almost like he believes people who purchase games used are no better than software pirates.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n

I suppose he might not like to hear it, but I too played Heavy Rain and I didn’t buy it new either.\u00a0 Actually I didn’t even get it used.\u00a0 I rented it for $6 and finished it over two days.<\/p>\n

I’m glad I did too because once I finished it, I had no interest in playing it again.\u00a0 Don’t get me wrong I loved it and I had a hard time putting it down.\u00a0 After I finished it, I looked up details of the different endings online.\u00a0 Satisfied with the ending I received, I returned the game very satisfied.<\/p>\n

In the article, Guillaume admits that he agrees that video games are too expensive and that a middle ground should be found.<\/p>\n

Perhaps video games should be priced base on projected playthrough time and replay value?\u00a0 As an example, I purchased Mass Effect 2 brand new for around $60.\u00a0 I played it for easily 60+ hours ($1\/hr).\u00a0 Heavy Rain takes around 10 hours to complete.\u00a0 At that rate, Heavy Rain should retail for about 10 bucks.<\/p>\n

Now I wonder, would Guillaume prefer 3 million copies at $10 or 2 million copies at $60?\u00a0 I would assume at $10 they would have sold significantly more than 2 million copies, but would they have sold 12 million?<\/p>\n

Maybe he should be happy with they success they had and move on.<\/p>\n

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ComputerAbuser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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