Well, this is a bit of a slow moving topic, so I decided I'd put in my 2 cents now.
I find all the discussion about "it's not an original copy (hard-copy)" and "a game that physically isn't even there" is kind of backwards. I mean, what do you pay $60 for when you buy a new game; the CD, the manual, or the actual game that took months or years of a dozen tallented people's blood sweat and tears? Aparently to you guys the medium is more valuable than the game. Lame.
Granted having the game on CD or disk (for us old-schoolers) does give a sense of ownership. But when you come down to it, take even a $20 game, strip away the 5 bucks of manual, medium, and packaging, and is $10-$15 really too much to pay? Even an older game that was once worth $40-60 in it's prime, putting a $1 price tag on it is a bit like seeing a '63 chevy sold for a song because the engine needs a little work.
Then again, here putting this to a bunch of mooches accostomed to getting their games for free.
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