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Thu 20/11/08 at 16:24
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This probably belongs in the gaming forum but I had burgers for lunch.

Whats with all these codes? Why cants we buy games or controllers or bits for our console and then sell them off when we don't need them anymore. It saves us from chucking them in the bin plus poor people get to have a bargin.

Do they really want everyone to buy everything new? I know they avoid talking about this but they know that we know that they don't like it at all. Now I'm hearing about things on the Wii that will only work once and I wont be able to sell or give away. Or extra downloadable content that can only be downloaded once so making it worthless should you pass a game on.

I've been saying this for almost two decades now. I game would have to be bloody spectacular for me to want to spend £40 pounds. Its just not worth it especially if you only play it for a few days. I want to see games no higher than £5 and just download them on my HDD and play them on my machines.

So in conclusion, when you buy a game you should own that game and whether you want to sell it or give it away that's your prerogative.
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Thu 20/11/08 at 16:24
Regular
Posts: 19,415
This probably belongs in the gaming forum but I had burgers for lunch.

Whats with all these codes? Why cants we buy games or controllers or bits for our console and then sell them off when we don't need them anymore. It saves us from chucking them in the bin plus poor people get to have a bargin.

Do they really want everyone to buy everything new? I know they avoid talking about this but they know that we know that they don't like it at all. Now I'm hearing about things on the Wii that will only work once and I wont be able to sell or give away. Or extra downloadable content that can only be downloaded once so making it worthless should you pass a game on.

I've been saying this for almost two decades now. I game would have to be bloody spectacular for me to want to spend £40 pounds. Its just not worth it especially if you only play it for a few days. I want to see games no higher than £5 and just download them on my HDD and play them on my machines.

So in conclusion, when you buy a game you should own that game and whether you want to sell it or give it away that's your prerogative.

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