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EA's newly released Medal Of Honor is the first game I have played which does not allow online play simply from the playing the game from the disc.Each copy sold comes with a unique code which must be registered with EA in order to unlock all online features of the game (that is all Multiplayer modes as well as the Tier 1 feature) .So if you have bought the game second hand or rented it these features are not available.I believe you can buy a code from EA but this cost would then need to be added to cost of your second hand copy which I imagine would make it virtually the same price as buying a new one.
What do you guys think of this practice ?,is it fair ? or do you think that EA have a damn cheek to seriously devalue the trade in value of a game you may have paid around £40 for and have either completed or didn't really care for ?.In the case of Medal Of Honor it really does restrict what modes of the game you can play,it's basically just the single player campaign (which I believe is extremely short) that is available,everything else is locked.
If this works for EA surely other developers will follow suit ?.Would boycotting these titles perhaps make EA rethink their strategy ?.In the past I have heard games developers likening the effect of the sale of second hand games to that of piracy as in they do not get any revenue from it.If this practice does become the norm should the retail price of games drop in order to compensate for the fact that they are going to be worth less when you come to trade in or resell them ?.
Be interested to know what the peeps on here think of this.
What do you guys think of this practice ?,is it fair ? or do you think that EA have a damn cheek to seriously devalue the trade in value of a game you may have paid around £40 for and have either completed or didn't really care for ?.In the case of Medal Of Honor it really does restrict what modes of the game you can play,it's basically just the single player campaign (which I believe is extremely short) that is available,everything else is locked.
If this works for EA surely other developers will follow suit ?.Would boycotting these titles perhaps make EA rethink their strategy ?.In the past I have heard games developers likening the effect of the sale of second hand games to that of piracy as in they do not get any revenue from it.If this practice does become the norm should the retail price of games drop in order to compensate for the fact that they are going to be worth less when you come to trade in or resell them ?.
Be interested to know what the peeps on here think of this.
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EA's newly released Medal Of Honor is the first game I have played which does not allow online play simply from the playing the game from the disc.Each copy sold comes with a unique code which must be registered with EA in order to unlock all online features of the game (that is all Multiplayer modes as well as the Tier 1 feature) .So if you have bought the game second hand or rented it these features are not available.I believe you can buy a code from EA but this cost would then need to be added to cost of your second hand copy which I imagine would make it virtually the same price as buying a new one.
What do you guys think of this practice ?,is it fair ? or do you think that EA have a damn cheek to seriously devalue the trade in value of a game you may have paid around £40 for and have either completed or didn't really care for ?.In the case of Medal Of Honor it really does restrict what modes of the game you can play,it's basically just the single player campaign (which I believe is extremely short) that is available,everything else is locked.
If this works for EA surely other developers will follow suit ?.Would boycotting these titles perhaps make EA rethink their strategy ?.In the past I have heard games developers likening the effect of the sale of second hand games to that of piracy as in they do not get any revenue from it.If this practice does become the norm should the retail price of games drop in order to compensate for the fact that they are going to be worth less when you come to trade in or resell them ?.
Be interested to know what the peeps on here think of this.
What do you guys think of this practice ?,is it fair ? or do you think that EA have a damn cheek to seriously devalue the trade in value of a game you may have paid around £40 for and have either completed or didn't really care for ?.In the case of Medal Of Honor it really does restrict what modes of the game you can play,it's basically just the single player campaign (which I believe is extremely short) that is available,everything else is locked.
If this works for EA surely other developers will follow suit ?.Would boycotting these titles perhaps make EA rethink their strategy ?.In the past I have heard games developers likening the effect of the sale of second hand games to that of piracy as in they do not get any revenue from it.If this practice does become the norm should the retail price of games drop in order to compensate for the fact that they are going to be worth less when you come to trade in or resell them ?.
Be interested to know what the peeps on here think of this.
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