I agree with the article, if you pirate a game, you aren't going to be playing it online so the company saves money on bandwidth needed for you to play the game. If you buy a used legitimate copy, then you will play it online and consume bandwidth, either way the developer and publisher are not getting any additional income due to pirating vs someone buying a used game, the only thing is they will pay more in the longrun for bandwidth on the used game.
@phxprovost - EB/Gamestop, etc might go under, but you will always still be able to find games, think of stores like futureshop/best buy, they don't "NEED" the gaming part of their store to survive they make money from everything else as well.
@ironman - By you trading in those 3 games, it means that they potentially lose the sale of those 3 games to someone else that would have to buy it new if your used copy wasn't for sale
@slimebeast - I think I explained the difference in my opening paragraph, though there could be other things I am not thinking of that they are.
@Kenryoku_Maxis - They have done your 3 options, they ignored it, complained about it, now they are doing something about it by selling you a code so you can play online.
@coolbeans - I read somewhere that you can get a game and get a temporary code to allow you to play the game for 7 days, any longer than that and you need to buy the $10 code
@tuscaniman - Good luck breaking into that field man, hard as hell, my buddy even did one of those special video games schools for 30k for 1 year, yeah, he's not in the field >.
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