EA'S online passes suck! Dont buy their new games!!!

[theRepublic]

ssj12 said:

Kasz216 said:

Or... Play and Trade can't afford to sell the game for $15 anymore?  Or whatever they charged for it anyway?

Play and Trades prices will be just as effected by Gamestops.  I mean, you know how buisness pricing plans are made in the buisness right?  It's based soley on price/cost ratios.

Aside from which... previously Play and Trade would give you 8 dollars... gamestop would give you 3.

Now BOTH will give you 3 dollars.  Or Play and Trade will give you 3... and gamestop will give you 1.50.

How is this Win, Win, Win?

Sure your making a higher PERCENTAGE... but your only losing when it comes to REAL benefit your losing.

Play`N`Trade bases the purchase of a used game by inventory. So actually their prices ARE NOT based on GameStop's pricing. So it doesnt matter if you were trading a brand new game that was just released. If they have dozens of copies, they will pay you less then the last person who traded it in.

I think you missed the point.  Whatever EA's sport games used to be worth is going to be decreased by around $10.  You will see them on the shelf for around $10 less, and the trade in value is going to be around $10 less.  It doesn't matter what Play 'N' Trade bases their prices on, they are going to have to come down from what they are now if they want to be able to move inventory and make money.

No one will be able to charge the same prices after EA slaps a $10 fee onto used games to be able to play multiplayer.  Games where multiplayer is very important to gamers will see their used value fall very close to the $10, games where multiplayer is not very important to gamers will see their used value fall less.