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Chroniczaaa said:

Yes it is quite depressing. We now live in a day where when you pay 60 bucks (60 whole fucking dollars like cmon thats alot, most countries it's even more.) and you don't even own the god damn game. Makes no sense, but that's how it is.

Edit. NVM read what's going on with this. But Microsoft and Sony KNOW they would cream their pants if more rules like this were actually accepted by society. Like cmon that whole ps3 debacle with how you cant mod the console because it's licensed to you, like cmon.

Yeah, you pay $60, $20 or sometimes even less for something that costs millions to make, what a scam.



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Goatseye said:
It's for the gamers!!!


I see what you tried to do there, cute. 



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Chroniczaaa said:

Yes it is quite depressing. We now live in a day where when you pay 60 bucks (60 whole fucking dollars like cmon thats alot, most countries it's even more.) and you don't even own the god damn game. Makes no sense, but that's how it is.

Edit. NVM read what's going on with this. But Microsoft and Sony KNOW they would cream their pants if more rules like this were actually accepted by society. Like cmon that whole ps3 debacle with how you cant mod the console because it's licensed to you, like cmon.

We've been paying $60 or more for games alot longer than just this past gen.  Try paying $70 for SNES games like FFIII (US) or for N64 launch games... adjusted for inflation that's around $100 today.



On 2/24/13, MB1025 said:
You know I was always wondering why no one ever used the dollar sign for $ony, but then I realized they have no money so it would be pointless.

Haha, you scared me for a second guys. People are just quoting the fine print in an attempt to freak people out.



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Oh, it's in the EULA? Too bad this shit doesn't fly in Europe. Good luck with enforcing it :P



NightDragon83 said:
Chroniczaaa said:

Yes it is quite depressing. We now live in a day where when you pay 60 bucks (60 whole fucking dollars like cmon thats alot, most countries it's even more.) and you don't even own the god damn game. Makes no sense, but that's how it is.

Edit. NVM read what's going on with this. But Microsoft and Sony KNOW they would cream their pants if more rules like this were actually accepted by society. Like cmon that whole ps3 debacle with how you cant mod the console because it's licensed to you, like cmon.

We've been paying $60 or more for games alot longer than just this past gen.  Try paying $70 for SNES games like FFIII (US) or for N64 launch games... adjusted for inflation that's around $100 today.

Was just about to post the same thing... Street Fighter II retailed for £60 on the SNES here in the UK, that's give or take $90, and probably around $120 by today's standards.

Didn't stop it from becoming the best-selling individual game on the SNES though.



Actually some software vendors have enforced such EULA terms. One case was a person who bought some accounting software but never even took off the plastic cover. So it was unused. The person then sold it via online auction, the software company found out about the online sale ans sued the person for onselling the software when it was only licensed to the person. Wording a lot like what's in the OP was used in the fine print of the software. The software company won the case.

Of course Sony can't actually impose a EULA on you for a game that's published by someone else. The publisher has the copyright to the software and so the publisher must assert that right and any associated conditions. So Sony wording on any 3rd party game is worthless.

Besides Sony has given express permission at the E3 press conference. They explicitly said you can sell, trade in or give away your games. Thus rendering any wording on the game cases null and void. But they did say 3rd parties will make their own decisions about disc based DRM, which they had to do legally because, as already said, Sony cannot exert copyright control over any game they don't publish, unless they make it a part of the terms and conditions for publisher releasing disc based games on PS4.



“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” - Bertrand Russell

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Key word folks SOFTWARE.



Goatseye said:
It's for the gamers!!!