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Originally Posted by Mikhayl
If you buy a game after a certain period of time, no matter where you get it I'm not so sure who gets the money. The publisher yes, the developpers? Doubt it.
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Devlopers don't get paid for every single sale, they get their money from bulk orders made by retailers (but only after the Publisher had recouped their costs). *
If there were no used sales then first-line retailers would buy more bulk orders to meet demand, and the developers would have a better chance of seeing their hard earned cash.
If you're talking about ten years down the line then yeah, who cares, buy it any which way you like.
*And this is a really important thing - a developer doesn't see a single penny from the game until the publishers have got back all of the advance they paid to fund development. If the game doesn't sell enough units then the developer may not get
anything. Every used sale hurts these guys down the line.