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EA would reap the most profit/benefit from such a setup, considering the amount of iterations they release each year (one Madden, one FIFA...what else?). They want to control the sway of new buyers deciding to buy, for example, a used copy of Madden 2012 for 10% of the price instead of Madden 2013. Those games stores have SHELVES of these games as used. They can't get rid of them without a significant price reduction on them.

This is the foundation for a second videogame market crash, mark my words. If people cannot get much of their money back from selling their yearly iteration games, it sets up the same premise that happened in the early 80s, of spending too much on games with little shift of appeal from one to the other, and alienating the consumer.



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Serious_frusting said:
Munkeh111 said:
Serious_frusting said:
Bleh, I wouldn't have bowed down to these publishers. I mean how hard can it be to create a sports game? Sony already has the best baseball game around

Well how is Konami doing with PES?


Yh i know but its only really been this gen where fifa has pulled ahead

Because they made it better than PES. Konami has tried to make a game as good as FIFA and failed



I like how EA were adamant they weren't the worst company in America due to the atrocities other companies commit, yet here they are, continuously shitting all over the industry and the consumer.



fordy said:
EA would reap the most profit/benefit from such a setup, considering the amount of iterations they release each year (one Madden, one FIFA...what else?). They want to control the sway of new buyers deciding to buy, for example, a used copy of Madden 2012 for 10% of the price instead of Madden 2013. Those games stores have SHELVES of these games as used. They can't get rid of them without a significant price reduction on them.

This is the foundation for a second videogame market crash, mark my words. If people cannot get much of their money back from selling their yearly iteration games, it sets up the same premise that happened in the early 80s, of spending too much on games with little shift of appeal from one to the other, and alienating the consumer.


That is it exactly, if someone doesn't have the incentive to trade that used game in and buy the next years version, which is not that different from the previous years version, those yearly titles may see a drop, so go trade in your last year game, or buy a used version and then pay $29.99 on the Xbox to install it ontop of whatever you paid in store.



In my opinion, people here will be in for a very rude awakening when they realise Sony and MS are going down largely the same road this gen, as it pertains to DRM and used games.



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Very good speculation. It seems very likely. MS isn't doing this move on its own. At least some publishers are pushing for it, and EA seems the most likely since they are evil. EA has been pushing these boundaries for some time. EA also has a history of using their software support to manipulate hardware makers to do with they want. Nintendo has never given them what they want, so they have pushed other platforms. In the past, Genesis, today, XBoxOne.



It's a sad thing if EA can dictate how a console should be created/run. No publisher should have that power. I'm glad Nintendo are telling them to bugger off if true. It's piracy they are trying to combat but this isn't the way.

Sony didn't have such a big issue with piracy with the PS3 but MS did with the 360, so they might not have considered the idea of fixing something that wasn't broken. As news reported before big releases like Gears of War games, many thousands of downloads of the leaked game occured and people stupidly tried to log on before release of servers so were banned. Anyone not stupid enough to log on early, presumably had a free game, as long as they paid Live. This charging for 'used' games (a form of DRM) is just a way for punishing legitimate customers just because they buy used (no change for the company in users) and also may put at end to the high street games shop.

But the kicker is in the case of Xbone is if you cannot lend a game to a friend, that is a bigger issue than any DRM or used game sale can bring up.



Hmm, pie.

do people still want to defend EA?



    R.I.P Mr Iwata :'(

cyberninja45 said:

Yes another EA vs Nintendo thread.

Could this be the reason for the lack of support from EA for the wiiU. They were upset with nintendo for not blocking used games in some sort of form.

Does this mean we will see some sort of feature like this also on the PS4? Its likely that they can be putting pressure on Sony to implement some feature like this on the PS4.

What are the implications for stuff like this to gamers going into the next gen?

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/407912/microsoft-confirms-pre-owned-fee-for-xbox-one/


PSN support for first day downloadable titles is already a feature which does not allow used game sales. Even though its not Origin, I'm sure EA is much happier with that system in place. 



If EA wants to prevent used game sales then, instead of an online pass, why don't they just incorporate a full game pass where you need the pass to actually play the game rather than trying to force the big 3 to do something to prevent used games in general for all games.

So Nintendo can still have EA games while EA games maintains the ability to not be bought back used. That why they can stop blaming Nintendo and blame themselves.