NobleTeam360 said:
prayformojo said:
People in general are ignorant to a fault. Most people read about this sort of thing, think about the entry cost, and instantly fall for it like well trained, gullible little circus animals. They can't see the big picture even if you laid it out in front of them.
Companies like EA, they want to take the games out of your hands. That's what they want and they're trying anything they can to achieve this goal. Why? Because most of their games are sports titles and sports titles are the ones that get traded into Gamestop or sold on Ebay the most. This hurts their bottom line. Instead of developing better games that people want to hold onto, they'd rather continue with their profit margins as is and find a way to prevent you from doing what you want with the half assed game you bought.
So what's better than this deal? Create an all you can eat model which prevents second hand sales by manipulation (low price point up front). It's the definition of consumer manipulation and most people are too ignorant to ever notice.
Personally, I want to own what I play and do what I want with it. That copy of Madden? It will run for however long I want it to run for. It won't be inaccessible in 10 years when EA is done with the servers and if I don't want it anymore? Bam, an easy $40.00 on Ebay that I can put toward gas, food, other games, movies or that hot girl at work I want to bang lol.
Subscription services are a scam and only pay off for a very small amount of people. The majority of people end up spending more and don't even realize it.
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Damn that must be one hell of an Madden game if you still get 40 bucks for it 10 years from now  . Also I guess you must not care for GWG or PS+ or Netflix or Amazon Prime...... since you know you don't care for supscription services and all.
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Netflix doesn't bother me because most of the movies on there are movies I wouldn't buy. As far as everything else? It's a scam. Do you honestly think these companies haven't hired mathematicians to figure all this out ahead of time? The majorty of people don't spend $120.00 a year on music. Yet, they think it's totally acceptable to subscribe to Spotify because...omg, only $9.99 a month?
I am not ignorant enough to fall for something like that. If I were ever to do something like this, I'd crunch the numbers first and figure out if it's cheaper in the long run. And even if it was, I would still take pause because I actually, you know, want to be able to see, hold and OWN things I pay for. With music and movies, it's about quality (Blu-Ray looks and sounds better, CD's are well over 1,000 KB which murders legal downloads and streaming services), stability (streaming doesn't always work when you need it to), they are collectable and last but certainly not least, they're resaleable should you need to do so.
If you want to over pay for virtual goods which are inferior, never truely yours and have the shelf life of an open container of milk, then so be it. But not everyone shares that desire. When the servers go down, I'll have my game. You won't have yours.
Buy cheap, buy twice?
