What's your take on "online pass"?

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Baalzamon said:

vlad321 said:

Zkuq said:

vlad321 said:
It's a CD key. If anything this just shows that even in DRM the consoles take around a decade or more to catch up.

Not really that simple. On PC, I doubt it's very common that CD keys are in use unless the game has online accounts that use the CD key, which is not very common for older games.

I can install and play single-player Starcraft with any CD-Key, but I can't get online unless it's unique. That was 13 years ago.

You can't get online if nobody else with the same CD key is online.  That is completely and totally different.  That means if you sell it (I sold Starcraft as well as Warcraft 3), there will be no problems whatsoever for the people who purchased it, because they are the only ones using those CD keys.

With the online passes, they are making it so it is unique to one account (I think it is account as well as the original ps3 it was validated on).  If you sell it, the other people can't play online, even though nobody else is currently online with it.

One allows somebody to sell it and the other person to have full access (it simply limits the access of one copy to one user at a time), the other makes it so should somebody sell it, the other person has to buy an additional pass to play it.

Err would YOU buy a used PC game that has a CD key? not everyone is as honnest as you obviously are.

Moreover, games on PC are also linked to accounts now. Be it steamworks products or Battlenet, there is no reselling possible. I'm waging it'll be the same for the Origine service.... CD key linked to account.