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g911turbo on 23 May 2013
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g911turbo said:
BlkPaladin said:
Otakumegane said:
maximrace said:
How I see it: Game is tied to your account. You can untie it so you can bring it back. Gamestore uses new system to put another code on it and that system will give some money to devs depending how old the game is. In the end used games will rise like 5 euros or so in price. This isn't really so bad


It's also complicated as fk.

People whine about friend codes, imagine the hassle of trying to trade in a lot of your games at once and having to dig up the codes for each game and then plugging them in. After that you can type in each code then you can trade in the code to gamestop.

I presented away this would work. There is an unique code burnt and encoded into each different game, and this is what is bound to your account. When someone returns a used game, Gamestop will have a machine from Microsoft where they put it in, the machine extracts the code sends it to Microsoft and Microsoft removes the game from the account it is bound to. The gamer gets a pitance for the game they return and Microsoft can keep track of the games Gamestop resells and sends Gamestop a invoice for the resale fee, and Gamestop can resell the game at full price, like they did back in the day.

The rental thing is a little stickier. But I guess the code can indicate that it is from a retal business and allow you to install and play it for a certin number of days once that is up the player would have to buy it or return the game.

This is quite brilliant and exactly what I was speaking to my brother about a few weeks ago.  Microsoft is probably going to steal my idea haha.  It's not really a logistics nightmare once the right computer software is in place.

It is in Microsoft's best interest to keep Gamestop around since many people like hard copies of games and many people go to Gamestop to get those hard copies.  If they can abolish codes and create them, they can even keep track of how many people buy what... You'll probably also be able to trade/buy/sell codes on xbox live, peer to peer (for the more tech savy so to speak).

There are a lot of options.  Gamestop WOULD LOVE this because it would eliminate Craigslist/ebay competition.  Now new is 60, used is 55.  Microsoft gets a big cut both ways.  Peer to peer selling / buying is on lockdown...

Ebay might not like this haha.

The only problem with this is if hackers find a way to extract that code.  Because once the game disc is stamped at the factory you cannot rewrite the code.  So even if you dis-join that person's account from the licesnse code on receipt of that used game, said person might still have that code (theft basically) leading to a conflict later.

Unless they collect the disc only and just demolish it (and invalidate the code in the system database), and then sell certain discs as used and certain ones as used (even though technically all discs would be new).. that parts does seem a little convoluted.