| d21lewis said: Here's the thing, when it comes to buying a game, either I want it or I don't. I don't speak for anybody but myself but if a game has me excited, I'm going to buy it brand new. I don't give a damn about promotions or dlc or anything like that. I got Enslaved on day one and never got the DLC. I got L.A. Noire on day 1 and never bothered with the DLC. I got WWE Smackdown 2011 on day 1 and never bothered with the DLC. More often than not, I got these games from Wal-Mart where there was no DLC, anyway. I hardly ever pre-order, either. Out of probably 200 games that I've bought since this gen began, I think I pre-ordered two (Batman AA and Gears 3). So, as a huge buyer of games, the pre-order program has done absolutely nothing to entice me. Nothing. All pre-ordering, online passes, exclusive DLC, etc. have done was shit me out of content for a game I was going to buy anyway or shit people out of content for a game that they never wanted enough to buy new. Online passes should ONLY be used in cases where a game has an online component. A couple of years ago, on this very site, I described the idea of an online pass almost exactly as it exists in its current form. I thought it was a great idea, too. People that play online pay a small fee for the online portion of a game if they buy it used. The place where my idea differed from the real deal was that the online portion was LOCKED and that lock expired after a year (when all of the important sales were done, anyway). That way, there is no side effect if a collector buys a game years down the line and companies still reap the benefits. I never suspected something like this would/could happen. What Gamestop is doing is fine with me. The devs are getting their money and the customer is getting their game. It's the best of both worlds. I'm just worried about what happens to me when my console dies out and I can't use the DLC anymore--or what happens when the servers are no longer available and I can't log in as d21lewis anymore. My whole game is gimped. And new copies will be next to impossible to find. |
Everything here makes sense, but if the servers are down, you cant play online anyway, so that part of the game will be nerfed whether ones buys new or not. Of course this is a problem for Batman but IMHO, i dont think this is going to extend to alot of SP games. I pray it doesnt, anyway.
I think what Gamestop is doing is G, hate them or love them this was a good move. This not only encourages people to bring their games to them AND buy from them it also gimps the used games of Best Buy, IMHO this is what its really about, they now for the first time since EB was around have real competition. As for Publishers, look at it from their point of view, they have been trying and failing to kill off used games for the last few years, the more they try the more stores are offering up used game incentives, like weeds. So instead of fighting, why not just deal with the devil you already know?? At least GameStop deals with ONLY games(and some movies) Best Buy is probably more of a loose cannon to them
