Used Games = Piracy?

[Jagos]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

I was under the impression bandwidth costs were rising.

Or is that server costs?

Bandwidth continues to fall

The networks are already established. While they do have to be maintained, that's more a fixed cost. Additional linkage. Makes sense that bandwidth costs less as more people are put onto broadband networks.

Server costs have their own challenges however. With servers, you need not only maintenance, but you also need air conditioning (dissipate heat) and more efficient parts that can stand all of the work needed. Then there's updating and upgrading those dern things...

Regardless, broadband being what it is, it's highly negligible that either of these two price points aren't already calculated in the money received from a game.