The following is a list of modest proposal's for the used game market, or to eliminate the issue that publishers have with the used game market.
1. Start selling video games directly from the publishers: There are several ways this could be accomplished, you could create capcom driveup restaurants or pay for peoples flights to japan so they could pick up their copy of Bionic Commando and used copies of the game from capcom. This is actually a really great idea because first of all you would undercut the used game market directly and doing so would eliminate the plane tickets and accommodation fares, not to mention the buyer could stare at the box and manual for the 17 hour flights to really immerse themselves in the world, this would probably give rise to the manual all over again.
2. Create a ripoff company of gamestop that sells not only video games but also high volumes of gamer grub. A group of publishers rallying together to create a game sales company that not only sells overpriced video games but attracts customers away from gamestop with massive amounts of overpriced gamergrub and overpriced energy drinks. This is the obvious solution because the competition of gamergrub and energy drinks would consume gamestop into eventually not only selling gamer food and drink but eventually becoming an off-brand 7-Eleven specifically for the gamer.
3. Dump roms and cartridges on passing gamestop customers as policy of publishing employees worldwide. Employees would be handed backpacks full of cartridges and roms upon going into work and before the end of the day would be required to empty the entire bag on any gamestop company they happen to see. This is a wonderful idea because it would not only eliminate the customers want to go to gamestop but also with certain advertisements placed on the cartridges [as well as skull and crossbones style profanities against gamestop] the customer will be reminded to book a flight to japan with capcom [see idea 1]
4. Start selling one game home consoles again: Remember back in the pong days when you just bought this really awesome wood and plastic brick that you plugged into your tv and boom pong? No worries about firmware, or dashboards, or even going to pesky gamestop [important!]. The best part about this [other than the death of retailers] is the return of old gaming. Huge development costs would have to cease if all games were to be released individualized consoles, otherwise the consoles would require too much hardware to become consumer acceptably priced. So with the recent rise of old games on xbox live arcade and playstation network this is just taking the next step! going directly to the throat of gamestop, because now the consoles are priced so low and come out at such a high frequency that they are directly undercut by companies like walmart, target or even weird gas stations in the california area.
Just think of all the obvious solutions that are possible out there, the problem isnt gamestop. The problem is us, use your heads dummies. (I should note for those of you who aren't aware this is a rip on Jonathan Swift's 1729 classic "A Modest Proposal" and as such is a form of satire not meant to be taken seriously but all of these ideas are reflective of real solutions that could be considered)
Really this is satire on companies like Ubisoft that DRM ideas to prevent piracy are even more fantastical than some of these ideas, i know id rather work for capcom as part of a special team of PETA style game defenders throwing cartridges on people than connect my assassins creed 2 to the internet all the time. Thank you for your appreciation of this thread and please come up with your own ideas because I am extremely interested in reading them.
