"Exactly?" Not at all. I don't mean to nitpick, but I think you're exaggerating. Steam sales are a way of increasing profits by price discriminating to capture

"Exactly?" Not at all. I don't mean to nitpick, but I think you're exaggerating. Steam sales are a way of increasing profits by price discriminating to capture the long tail of the demand curve. Used games have nothing to do with earning the developers more money. Maybe they're similar from a consumer perspective, but that doesn't mean they're similar.