EA's Strategy to Counter Used Games Sales

[Hawk]

Kasz216 said:

Hawk said:

Kasz216 said:

Hawk said:

Hmmm, I may be missing something.  But that 'extra' is not a cost to the person that bought the game new.  Whether or not it was on the disk, or had to be downloaded later, it is not extra cost to the person who bought it new.  And if it's free DLC content for the life of the game, the person who bought it new, will, over time, get extra content for no cost.

You are missing quite a lot.

For one looking towars the future as well as the present.

As in... other games in the future.

Please explain some more.  I am not sure what you are getting at.  Future games doing this same thing?

BFBC 1 updates were free.

BFBC 2 updates are free for new users and 15 dollars for used players.  Who cares it's only for used players.

BFBC3 updates are 15 dollars.  Who cares it was an extra.

 

It goes from given feature to everyone having to pay for it in 2 games.  This move devalues content because it makes it easier to devalue the content more later on.

 

See, now you are making stuff up about what WILL happen.  If that does happen, I will have a problem with it.  About the matter at hand, I am all for it.  Even if no extra value will be added to the new game buyer.  I am all for the publisher/developers getting a bit of money off of used game sales in some way.  I certainly am unhappy about games that come out with day 1 DLC that you must pay for that could've been part of the retail game, yeah.  But that's not what we are talking about here.  I see no negative to the person who bought the game new, and then doesn't have to pay for any more 'extra' content.   Whether it's extra or not.  Though as we can see, we already know that more content that does not exist yet, will be available to the person who bought the game new at no charge.  Hence, there will be 'extra' content over time.