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Ganoncrotch said:
Snoopy said:

Actually it was a 24 hour online check up. Which would stop used games which means publishers and developers will be more successful.

Are you trying to suggest that us paying more for games and losing an option of buying them as a good thing?

Sony have made a fairly great way of stopping the sale of their games pre owned this gen so far for me, the PSN price of games has been fairly good in terms of reduction after launch prices and sales for even major titles makes them often cheaper to buy digitally rather than going to the gamestop or CEX here.

That said the option is still there for pre owned games if I want to pick up something like Fifa from last year which EA are very against reducing but places like Gamestop sell off for €3-4 each because to fans of Fifa they are considered worthless, but to EA they are a very cheap option for someone to play almost the exact same game for 20 times less.

Either way... Suggesting it's a positive thing that we would have lost a method for buying/selling games... Shame.

Two reasons why I wanted online checkup.

Price : Do you want to know why steam has all those awesome game sales that us console users get jealous about (admit it)? Because there is no used games from gamestop, walmart, bestbuy, ect to under cut those games in price. Used games are part of the reason why it takes a while for games to go down in price. If the game publisher lowers their games price, gamestop will just undercut them. So publishers have no choice but to keep the games price as high as they can for as long as they can. Publishers won't mind lowering their games price if there is some kind of drm because they know all the money the gamer spends on the game will go to them and no one else pretty much (outside of a few fees of course).

Games: We are getting ripped off in this department this generation. We are not getting many new ips. It is hard for a publisher to justify spending millions of dollars on a AAA new ip game. If they can guarantee that all sales will go to the publishers, they may take more chances on new ips. We all know a lot of people buy games they are not sure about when it is used later down the road. This mean publishers get nothing and they can't make a sequal to the game or won't take much chances anymore.  This is the worse generation overall in terms of games in the last 6 generations.