Following on from this: today, publishers have a great incentive to produce games that their customers never want to sell. If nobody sells the game, the used market is small, and newcomers to the game will buy new; the publisher might even be able to reprint the game.
But if used sales become impossible, the publisher's incentive not only evaporates, but reverses direction entirely. They wouldn't gain anything by making a game that everybody wants to hold on to for years and years. Instead, with each key purchase for an existing copy, the publisher takes in pure profit with no additional production costs -- which means that they'd be better off intentionally producing ephemeral games that nobody wants to keep. Move that content from person to person and get paid multiple times after only producing it once!
Is that the kind of game industry that we customers want?
