Tuganuno said:
Calmador said:
The game that is bought used was obviously not good enough to keep for the gamer that bought it new. So why should developers get money for games that failed to provide us the consumers with what we wanted? The game was sold and the developers got money off an unsatisfied gamer who basically turned around and sold off or traded his new, now used game. Then a used game buyer/gamer comes around and gives this game a second chance, he/she plays it and keeps it... the developers of that game have now truly earned the purchase of the new game buyer/gamer. Now lets assume the satisfied used game buyer/gamer has tried the 7 day trail of online to see if it's worth buying the onlne pass and likes it and buys it. The developers have essentially just stolen whatever $ the online pass is worth from us the gamers because this game was already bought new for 60$, get it? This is a bit hard to explain but let me explain this in a different way just incase you didn't get it just yet, a game store or any game store for that matter always has a limited amount of copies of lets call it game X so if a gamer buys game X new or used they are buying the supply of game X in the market and if a game store runs out of game X then that game ran out of copies because so many people loved the game and kept it because they were that satisified... obviously the game is high in demand and the store will order more copies because of well deserved demand from us the consumers, the new/used game buyers/gamers. Yes even single player games should be so good that a gamer keeps it but then again... usually gamers who buy single player games buy it for different reasons (and will keep it if its good anyways) than a MP gamer would so single player games also benefit from the used game market. Anyways this gives us the gamers a check on developers to make quality titles that are worth keeping. So online passes are not necassary for any reason at all since the used game market is actually something that helps the industry. Not to mention charging gamers $ for a game that was already sold to at full price... making games that failed to satisfy you cost more????????? Rewarding developers with an extra 5$ or whatever those online passes will cost for a product that failed to satisfy a new game buyer/gamer can't be good for the industry. Furthermore... yes if the online passes actually do happen and every MP game thats bought used requires an online pass everything will be evened out... but at who's cost? The used game buyer/gamer... the people that actually buy all the games out until the game store orders more copies because of such high demand because of well deserved demand. And guess who will benefit from this online pass scam... it will be the first developers/publishers who strike first with thier online pass requirements of used games. And it's not some small indie gaming company that is thinking about this, it's EA and Activision.... some of the biggest Publishers/Developers ... can someone hear the BS alarm go off? I sure can... you can alredy see them reaching into our pockets. These Developers/Publishers which will get extra revenue (if we support this) ... not because they're games are of high quality but because they were first to strike with this unessassry online pass scam which we will reward them with by supporting online passes.
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To be honest, that's really damn long and I have a shitload of stuff to study this week, so I'll just say that an Online Pass ain't that expensive and you should consider ('cause you most likely didn't) that used games will devaluate alot more thus having to pay just a little bit more for the bundle (Game Online Pass) - More profit for the Developers, less money for the retaillers who sell used games at ridiculous prices. Plus when you lend a game to a friend, you have to consider that your friend isn't contributing in anything for the company, even tho he's enjoying their work for free. And it's not like you won't be able to enjoy the game: you'll still be able to play everything the game has to offer, offline. If you don't feel like it's worthy of spending 10€ or so to get the Online, then don't. No one is forcing you.
Yes, I do understand most people's point of view, because us, the gamers, do get bs'd by huge companies. But if you want to boycott anything, you should start with DLCs that are being sold on the first week the game was released... or 5 recycled maps for 15€. Those are the true rip offs, not an attempt of increasing the games sales or at least make a bit of profit on the sales of used games/ borrowed games.
Case I completely missed your point, I might have 'cause once again, I didn't read so I'm just supposing what you said as an agry game towards EA and so on, I'll read the whole thing and make a completely new reply. Cheers
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