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Eidos Life President Ian Livingstone says the popularity of pre-owned games will ultimately hurt retailers as game developers and publishers are forced away from conventional sales channels in order to maximize their revenues. We all know by now that used videogame sales are one of the most pervasive evils facing the industry today, responsible for everything from reduced publisher revenues to global warming. And while sales of pre-owned games may be the only way retailers like GameStop and EB Games can earn kind of decent profit in a business that is otherwise characterized by razor-thin margins, Livingstone says that conventional […]http://cdn.themis-media.com/media/global/images/galleries/display/61/61085.jpg