Butt out?

So unless you can do this ---> with your money, you probably try to find the best deal you can on your games. So it disturbs me to hear the creator of God of War David Jaffe tell you the consumer to mind your own business. WTF!

In a recent conversation on YouTube Davey voiced his opinion about the sale of used games. Being a developer he apparently feels that he deserves a piece of the used game profit. He also feels moving towards totally digital distribution is the way to go so that they can completely control the gaming market. To top it all off he believes all of this is none of the consumers business.

I buy all my games at Gamestop. Used and new. I will pre-order the stuff I know that I will play for a long time. I buy used games that I really enjoyed renting from Gamefly. So if it were up to the developers and distributors of these games Gamestop and Gamefly would go completely out of business and I wouldn't have a place to get good deals on games. What they don't realize is that for me and many other gamers our ability to play the plethera of games that we do each year would be greatly diminished. I wouldn't be able to afford to try every game they put out each month. So actually they would be hurting their own business. I might buy the most hyped and best review game of the year, but other than that...meh.

I don't have the solution for these guys. I understand it takes a shit-ton of money to make these games and we always demand lower prices for higher quality. That's life though man. It just pisses me off that we should have no input in this. If we don't buy these games then where is Dave then? Flippin burgers, thats where. Don't bite the hand that feeds you Dave.