Kuraudo said: Can someone explain to me how buying a copy of Valve's game is "fucking them over"?



I don't plan to do it (no real interest on playing this on my laptop), but I'm genuinely interested in the logic behind this. Click to expand...

What I don't understand is how people plan to "save money" on this.$60 (Portal PS3)-$20 (Likely GS Trade in Value for Cash)$40 Net Cost...can't you just buy the PC version almost that cheap w/preorder?Buy PS3 version, get PC version, sell PS3 version to gamestop (or somewhere else). When that copy is resold as used, valve gets none of that money. This potentially puts considerably more used PS3 copies on the market, which potentially means Valve can lose some money, while Gamestop makes some (which sucks balls).So in a sense, Valve rewards consumer with free PC copy, Consumer sells copy to GameStop, and GameStop says "fuck you consumer" and sells it for $54.99 even though they just bought it from you for $20. So you take from a pro-consumer developer, and give to an anti-consumer retail outlet. Sense this does not make.