I'm not arguing that physical isn't becoming more of an authentication tool with all the patches, and physical may indeed become a relic, but not a few years from now as you said. Perhaps you could define what you mean by a physical dying in a 'few years'. To me that suggests sometime in the next 5 years, and that's not happening. Nor in the next ten. But I'll await your clarification.
Yes, selling used games outside a dedicated store isn't new. The online marketplace has merely allowed you to cast your net wider than before. There's always a few timewasters but for the most part I've had very little trouble using facebook as a means to sell my games and get market value for them. But when you say physical will be dead in a few years, perhaps I'm taking you too literally because I can still readily buy physical media off amazon and that will continue well into the future. Bestbuy and Target still have movie sections, albeit with smaller footprints in their stores. But 'dead' to me says that physical media will stop being printed entirely, and in a few years? Again, perhaps I'm taking you too literally and you only mean that physical will become highly niche. Which, I agree with if that's what you mean by 'dead'.
Yes, people have long bitched about Gamestop's practices. That's nothing new under the sun. But the inevitability of digital as well as the online resell marketplace have reduced the need for Gamestop to exist. I 'think' we agree on that. Their policies merely exasperate their issues, but if the environment was there to bypass Gamestop a decade ago, people would have. The time is now.
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