bananaking21 said:
kitler53 said:
bananaking21 said:
sniper989 said:
dont buy used games anyway |
its not about if you buy used games or not, it's about the principle. you BUY a game it becomes YOURS. you have the right to sell it as you like
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legally you aren't buying the game, only the license to play the game. not really different i suppose then why you can't buy a single windows OS disc and install it on as many computers as you want ... because you bought a license and that license is for a specified (limited) number of devices.
...but as a business practise this probably has a more negative impacts then benifits. i doubt it will in actually get used game buyers to buy new software. ..more likely they'll just buy wii U's or xbox's instead.
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ok but when i pay for a game i have the right to use it, if for some reason i lost my psn account along with my console i cant even play it even though i bought it. and dont tell me the chances of that happening are slim because it happened to me. and lets say i want to play it at a friends house, suddenly i cant?
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like i said, bad business. i completely agree with you on that point. as kowenicki just said, "it would be suicide". as big of a sony fan as i am and even though i only buy new games... i dunno. i just dunno if i could deal with those kinds of restrictions. i sometimes trade games with my friends. i've once or twice bought a used game just because it was out of print to buy it new. what happens if my ps3 breaks? the stupid online pass is dumb enough and i don't want more roadblock between me and they games i purchase. ..but they could do it, legally.
the only way i would accept this is is sony's gaikai purchase (the cloud service) does so reallly cool things that allows me to tie my disc purchases to that and take me games elsewhere via the cloud or something something. i probably have unrealistic expectations of what sony will/can do with that cloud but i'm at least open to the idea that consumership as i currently know it could be very different in the future.
