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Quote: Originally Posted by Krioniq

It's not the people trading the game in that hurts EA (and every video game publisher), it's the used game sales that is hurting the industry. Gamestop makes billions off of used game sales, and video game publishers want their cut they feel they rightly deserve. As someone who will be interning at a video game developer this summer (and hopefully having a job at one thereafter), I fully understand the move. Blame EA all you want, but this is the direction the entire industry is headed.

I understand that is the direction and I understand and respect that. A game like God of War or Dantes Inferno has little replay value once you finish the mission, so the consumers can buy, finish their game and trade it in within a week really, and game developers get hurt badly by used game sales.

This article however, is talking specifically of sports games. Games with yearly cycles (less time and money spent) that have value for the entire sports season, and for many, the whole year if the game is good. In my opinion, with sports games it has more to do with game quality as far as why it's traded in when it still has value to Gamestop.