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I'm not aware of anything in statue, regulation, or precedent to support the notion that first-sale doctrine is negated by non-depreciation of the object in question. A rare Superman comic was discovered recently and last I saw the auction was over $100,000. Are you proposing that the publisher is entitled to a portion of that sale, because its value wasn't diminished from the few cents that was originally paid for it?

Aside from that, it's not really true. Used games (with the exception of some rare/import titles) tend to cost less than new ones.

This is insane. There's no legitimate reason to carve out a whole segment of the economy for special treatment just because it's digital.

There's a perfectly legitimate reason - it's their device and their ecosystem. They can do whatever they want with it. There is no statute, regulation, or precedent to support the notion that they need to do things the way you want them to do it just because that's how things used to work.

Your relief is to not participate if you decide the value does not match the price. It's not like you have some special right to be entertained on your own terms, even if you feel like it's "ethical" or whatever the word of the week is for the moralists.