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> I really can’t say whether this kinda thing will effect Infinite. I will say that I don’t like the idea of a private company appealing to a government to enforce that company’s will on private citizens. It gets into some really strange Big Brother territory that I’d rather we not go in to.
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> I can empathize with your frustration. And alternatively I’d recommend keeping the government (no matter which nation they represent) out of the issue. Instead I’d recommend these companies handle it themselves by limiting purchases to one per customer (or having customers justify why they are purchasing more than one). It’s been working fairly well for essential items during a pandemic. Don’t see why that wouldn’t work for this.
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> And I think you have a good point that these companies have a vested interest in making sure scalpers don’t buy up a bunch of consoles that don’t get used. It hurts those companies down the line when their console sales don’t reflect their online user base. So they have an incentive to make sure consoles end up in the right hands.
I don’t entirely agree about governments not getting involved.
But I should rephrase how I said that…
Governments (at least in Aus, and I assume in other western countries) have already made ticket scalping illegal, I don’t see it as much of a stretch to attempt to apply that to multiple other industries. Consoles and shoes being prime examples.
It would be interesting to see how the licensing/resale rights work for the retail companies that sell consoles. And to hear a CEO’s opinion on scalping of goods that they sell at great legal effort in attaining the rights that they do.
Again, I’m assuming a few things there, but within reason, I think.
I had read a Reddit post about a scalper who, apparently in response to the single console per purchase limit, had simply registered a dozen+ emails and used an algorithm to make the purchases simultaneously.
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> I think the scalper situation right now certainly looks and feels very big right now though we’ve also got to consider that these consoles have only been out for two months. Not to disregard that scaling is 100% a issue because it is.
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> I think right now companies haven’t really had to face mass resell bots for consoles before. To be honest this kind of issue has been happening in the Sneaker market for a long long time. Companies are proactively looking at ways to get around scalpers and get products out to genuine customers though that does take time.
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> To tie this in with Infinite, we’re lucky that 343i are releasing Halo Infinite for all Xbox supported devices. That’s PC, Xbox Ones, One X’s, Series Consoles & Mobile devices through XCloud (I feel like a lot of people forget you don’t even need a Xbox or PC to play on Gamepass).
> There are still plenty of ways to play Halo Infinite without a next gen console, I’m sure it’ll have an impact for players who can’t get a optimal experience of the game day one as will always be the case.
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> I think it’s a good point your making but I think with it still being early January it’s hard to tell what supply for Next Gen Consoles will look like in the coming months.
The shoe market is a good point, and I think the scalping issue should really be extended well beyond sporting events to any industry effected on a large scale by it, especially where the usage and applications of bots/algorithms swing the purchasing system in the favour of the scalpers.
I’m not supposing any specific solution, but surely there are multiple ways for it to be explored.
And you’re right, of course, about it releasing on multiple platforms.
I’m not a fan of upgrading a console often, it always feels wasteful, so I’m still playing on an earlier Xbox One model, and the Series X being out, and so much of H:I’s marketing structure being around that, I would much prefer to upgrade to the Series X to purchase H:I at all to enjoy it at its best (short from PC - that’s only for strategy games IMO 
) and as such, I think how many fans might have a similar perspective that they might rather wait to play it on a new Series X than on an older model.
Further, though, you are correct on the end there.
Hardly one month into 21 and there are just as good odds that supply chain issues are entirely erased by March or April.
But now I’m fixated on the issue of scalpers! Haha, just the notion frustrates me!
I can’t believe someone would pay over $1,000 AUD (about $700USD) for a Series X… WILD! But I suppose impatience, frustration, and a not practically balanced desire make folks not balance their fiscal choices well.