Last week, on a whim, I decided to read a couple articles about David Jones, the creator of Crackdown (the videogame, for realz). Apparently he found used games in his vagina and is now contributing their sale to the lack of new games sold. In particular, his game. This also reminded me of when I read about how Dead Space sold 1.5 million copies while 3 million people have played it. This may sound alarming, but I assure you it is not. What is alarming though, is how much publishers and developers are bitching about the used game market.

To them I have one thing to say; suck my fucking cock.

Quote time! This one is from David Jones:

With Crackdown we sold about 1.5 million copies, but even at that we pretty much only managed to break even. It was due to the amount of factors that were out of our control as the developer, influences such as GameStop’s amazing used-game sales; we know 1.5 million new copies were sold, but it’s likely there were 2.5, three million sold when you include used.

Oh how I <3 quotes, they make the article longer and I don't have to write anything! But anyway, someone should tell him selling 1.5 million games is a GOOD THING. It was brand new IP for godsakes, of the top 75 best selling games on the Xbox 360 only 11 were new IP! Stop bitching, it's not like you shipped Too Human, you sold one of the best selling games (and one of the more fun games) for the Xbox 360. I'm sure you can add that to your resume.

Now it's time to address the issue at hand, the blame everyone lays on Gamestop and the used game market in general. You have to understand something, people who buy used games DON'T BUY NEW GAMES, although there are some exceptions. Everyone knows the first one, if the games is the fucking bee's knees people will go out and buy it. Other than that, used game buyers generally break their rules for Madden and Halo, but I'm sure they purchase these by trading in all their used games. The second part to this issue is the fact that the market exists, and this cannot change. Whenever you sell something to someone there will always be a method of them pawning it off to someone else. You can't stop Johnny from selling something HE OWNS, so stop complaining you twats. If Gamestop didn't exist it would happen somewhere else, and the same people who hate paying full price would seek out where. This may shock folks in the videogame industry, but not everyone out there gets paid tons of money to design videogames.

When it comes to his 3 million dollar mark, he's completely delusional. He obviously budged for at least 2.5 million copies to be sold of his game, and the game was obviously not appealing enough to sell 2.5 million copies. It's not because people were being sneaky-sneaky and stealing Crackdown or copying their friend's copy, they weren't buying it. Who knows how many copies were sold just so people could play Halo 3, maybe without it he would of only sold 1.1 million copies.

In short: David, it's not our fault you just broke even, it's your fault for spending too much money and being a general douche.

Love,

Rich