AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor

With these assholes it's not about money, it's about cruelty.

Thomas, a 35-year-old tech worker and father of three from Ireland, came to West Virginia

See? That's the problem here.

Really, people, do NOT go to the US.

For me it's the itchy clothes. They really drive me crazy.

Worried about medicaid cuts? Just stop getting/being sick, duh!

It's really that simple!

I had to check several times that this is actually NOT the onion.

I feel personally attacked

No if it's the first lunch!

Hundreds?!

Wow, they really managed to get the whole playerbase to sign the petition.

I'm gonna go ahead and say, without reading the article, that stratospheric prices of housing and frozen wages since the early 2000's might be the reason.

But this is just an uneducated guess, I'm probably wrong...

Would they really? I mean, the way I see it, they are pushing for the all digital market more and more. It's really in their best interest to kill a market that gives no money to them.

Besides, they don't need to outright kill it, just spread the fear of bans if you buy used. Enough to indirectly kill the market by making people believe buying used is dangerous.

There's a darker solution, which is what nintendo would love more: kill the second hand market.

And these moves might very well do it. If news spread and people start getting scared of buying a used game, second hand sales will drop and eventually die. Something that can only benefit nintendo.

I wonder if a banned console could download a game from a game key card, because if it can't, then there's not much of a difference between a ban and a brick.