PSN Pass Program: Sony's Answer to Used Game Sales?!

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Griffin said:

I laugh at all you who support this. This is only the start, just wait until they raise game prices $20 next gen and add this fee to play the single player game. Just look at DLC, it started off as a good idea to have extra content for the game you like. But no they rip content straight from the game and wait two months to charge you $15 for it, not only that but now they have DLC on the stores before the games even hit retail.

Whats that you have two kids and each with a PSN account, well thats too bad only one can play online. Whats that you want to play the game at a friends house, or give the game to a friend or family member to play. Thats too bad aswell give us another $10.

So now we have...

Game - $70
Day 1 DLC - $5
Content ripped from your game - $15
Oh whats that you want those extra maps that took them one week to make. - $45
Your brother wants to play on his account - $10

Enjoy your $145 games and remember how you wanted to support the devs as they spend 30Mil to make that game that just brought in 450million at retail.

this just so wrong on may levels....but i'll just comment on the development cost and retail thing. The game may have only cost 30M to develop but that doesn't mean its the only costs incurred.

theres manufacturing cost of the game disks - what did you think? the raw materials, labor, utilites, storage, etc are all free?

theres delivery costs - the game disks dont magically transport themselves to the DCs and to the retailers

retailers profit/cut - retailers also get their profits from there.

noticed why some some developers, even after having sold over a million copies still arent happy? thats because its not enough to cover all of the expenses and costs spent to develop, produce, market and sell the game