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Bucknut24
Trolololol
oh BTW
http://ps4daily.com/2013/06/sony-used-game-drm-is-up-to-game-publishers-on-playstation-4/
but because it's Sony...no shits will be given
http://ps4daily.com/2013/06/sony-used-game-drm-is-up-to-game-publishers-on-playstation-4/
but because it's Sony...no shits will be given
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George Costanza
stuff your sorries in a sack
Bucknut24;2345191; said:
did you keep every one of your used games? Or did you trade them in?
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Bucknut24;2345205; said:
...and you don't think the license/activation fee that used games are going to require won't take a cut out of the price you would get a a reseller?
When Amazon resells an Xbone game that you sent them, they are going to have to sell for lower prices now so that they can actually move the product and be able to differentiate it from the price of a new disc.
I don't buy many games at all these days, but I have sold back a few of the sports games that I have bought. The ability to get a decent price is part of what enticed me to buy in the first place. I would have never considered buying MLB 12 The Show new for $60 if I wasn't going to be able resell it for 50-60% of it's original price if I didn't like it - which is exactly what happened. If we were to go back to getting pennies on the dollar or nothing at all because of restrictions and license fees, then it would heavily suppress my desire buy games in the first place.
Video games cost a lot more than other forms of digital entertainment, and the previews or demos that you get can often misrepresent the quality of the product. The higher price tag already means there's a high amount of risk for consumers if the product doesn't live up to their expectations, and now the industry is trying to shift even more of the risk for a bad/overpriced game away from themselves and on to the consumers.
I can think of a lot of game studios that have failed. Some good ones perhaps haven't made it, but the gaming community mostly rewards the good stuff while the lousy stuff sinks. I have read plenty of stories about titles or studios that have failed because of their own outsized ambitions or largesse. I have never read a story about a title or studio that failed because of used game sales.
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Buckeye Maniac
Legend
Bucknut24;2345194; said:
Sony has already said that the console is not going to require an internet connection. Therefore, what they're saying about publishers being ale to institute DRM on used games is exactly what they're already able to do. As the article mentions, EA already required people to pay to unlock multiplayer on used games. XBone is going to be always online, so publishers can charge used games whether they're being played multiplayer or not.
I couldn't care less about multiplayer, so Sony is still hands down the winner here.
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Buckeneye
I lead, you follow.
The thing that gets me - PS3 enjoyed great success oversea's where
The 360 didn't. The trend won't be changing soon.
But with a cheaper introductory price and couple in the lack of DRM
Function and 'always on' - the PS4 might get back to where the PS and
PS2 left off in domestic success.
The 360 didn't. The trend won't be changing soon.
But with a cheaper introductory price and couple in the lack of DRM
Function and 'always on' - the PS4 might get back to where the PS and
PS2 left off in domestic success.
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CentralMOBuck
Assistant Coach
Don't forget that many games already require an online pass. So regardless what the consoles say, it's out of their hands. EA has been doing this for a few years already.
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Studios don't want to recoup used game sales.they want everyone to pay retail and horn plunk down another ten to forty for dlc.
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