Stopping the large-scale, organized sale of used games (known collectively as "GameStop", lest we kid ourselves) seems on balance to be a very good thing indeed, but it's also worth mentioning that delaying a game from getting cracked a few days is much more important than seems to be implied by the quote above. The desire to get a game as early as possible is one of the driving forces behind the whole piracy industry, and effectively making the pirated releases day-and-date with the legal copies has been a significant recent development which would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.
I have no problem with something that puts a dent in sales for Gamestop. The issue is private owners like you and I not being able to sell our games if we wanted.
Steam has zero effect on Gamestop though. Like Gorath mentioned, their business is console games. They don't give a rats ass about PC sales.
I agree the delay Steam has on piracy is important, but I think it tends to be overstated sometimes. I think the vast majority of people who pirate games would rather end up waiting those few extra days than actually paying for it.
I don't know how it is in the rest of the world, but if it is anything like here, then I don't understand why people even buy their (used) games at GameStop. Not when I can buy the same games new somewhere else, for less.
Absolutely agree. I've never understood why anyone would buy used titles from Gamestop, especially when they're often in very poor condition.
For that matter, I don't get why anyone would be dumb enough to sell their used games there either.