Electronic Arts CFO Blake Jorgensen has admitted that his company would be quite happy to see the back of the used game market. While that's a hardly a surprising sentiment, the executive did raise an eyebrow with an honest appraisal of the situation, and a confession that secondhand sales aren't all bad. 

"It's one of these classic double-edged swords," admitted Jorgensen in a Gamasutra interview. "In one way the used game business has been critical for the health of the retail channel, and having a healthy retail channel is an important thing for us.

"Would we like to sell everything at full price and not have a used game market? Sure. But I think the used game market's a little like any other kind of market where it creates liquidity. The fact is, that liquidity benefits us in some fashion. So if someone goes in and trades in a game, there's a good chance they're going to buy another one of our games. And so if there's a liquid market, I think that that's not a bad thing at all."

I never thought an EA executive would echo my thoughts to the exact letter, but this guy nailed it. As a long-time supporter of the used market, I've spoken at length about how the long-term benefits of the used market, and why it'd be short-sighted foolishness to destroy it. In an infuriating world full of short-sighted imbeciles who unequivocally paint used games as a blight, it's nice to see someone -- from EA of all places -- demonstrate a nuanced thought on the topic.