Recently, there has been a bit of discussion in those circles prone to doing so about the notion that buying a (video)game used is essentially the same thing as pirating it. I’d just like to say on behalf of myself and any other publishers who want to get behind me on this that this assertion is insane.

Videogames, and certain tabletop games are on the pricier side as entertainment commodities go. Some people can’t afford to spend, say, $40 on a game. Ever. Some people can do so only rarely, after a lot of word of mouth wins them over. A fair number of those people who can afford to buy anything that strikes their fancy only have that luxury thanks to their ability to get half their money back on eBay when they don’t like what they have. This gets games out of the closets of people who aren’t playing them into the hands of people who otherwise couldn’t afford them, generating more word of mouth to win over people on the fence. Everyone wins here.

So here’s our official stance on the matter. If you can afford The Massive Vs. The Masses? Buy a copy. Play it a few times. In the unlikely event you don’t love it, and don’t want to play it again? Hop on eBay, or BoardGameGeek, and sell it to someone else. Please do so. I don’t want a single copy of my game in the hands of someone who isn’t enjoying it, and as long as someone paid for it when it first shipped out of here, anything that helps that happen is great in my book.