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"We announced that we have abandoned Online Pass," Söderlund told Eurogamer at E3. "We're not doing that any more. And we're not doing that because we talked to people, our fans and our players, and they said, 'listen, we don't want to play our games like this.' We have to listen to them and we removed it. It's that simple.

"We don't have a problem with second-hand sales as they are today. We clearly articulated our stance when we abandoned Online Pass."

But will EA do anything - anything at all - to combat second-hand sales with next-gen games? we asked.

"We obviously have to look at what the first-parties are doing and follow any rules, but we have to scramble after these conferences and come back to what we think is right," Söderlund replied.

"But again, our general thesis is what the fans tell us they want, we'll give them." The fans are saying they want to be able to trade-in their games, Eurogamer suggested.

"Then we'll look at that. And if they want that then we will probably allow that."
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Yeah I don't believe that for a minute.



Wow, could this be the start of a massive EA backpedal?



Riiiight. Next month they'll come out saying 2nd hand games is what's killing the industry.



Oh puh-lease. EA was named in rumor article as the number advocator of the DRM shit. Now there like " woah! that plan was a dud.. lets slowly back outta here..."



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If I was a XBOX supporter I would be pretty pissed the publisher who is a primary suspect on the policies put into my console.. is coping out. What a detestable company





They will find new 'clever' ways to hinder used games on the ps4. Expect more day one dlc and other shady business practices in the future.





Their relationship with Nintendo is super strong, they totally said it themselves so it must be true!