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Morning pete, no malice intended mate :¬) True, I'm not going to entertain it again and the £15 does seem reasonable (CEX price) but (and I'll play devil's advocate here) how does the new owner play anything else but the SP game. Wouln't have thought they could have played the MP game, as I have already 'registered' it. Not that that would be my problem as the seller :¬)
No problem DL,no need to apologise though as no offence was taken in anyway.I just wanted to point out that PC gamers can sell/trade their stuff as exactly the same as console owners.
Welcome to the dark side! :)
PS. No idea how the multiplayer would work on a used PC game if the online access code had already been redeemed? Perhaps you would need to buy a new access code? (as with EA games). If that is the case then the used option would seem to be less attractive to PC gamers. I would give it a try but my PC would have trouble running Pac Man!
In general though I do have a lot of sympathy for console gamers regarding the high price of games. Having said that BOps for the PC was one of the highest prices I've seen for a PC game! But I'll still return to the old adage, if it's originally created on the PC and then ported to console - why the huge jump in price? There is certainly no intricate 'coding' required - all consoles have basically the same 'stuff' unlike even your average PC - stick disc in and play unlike stick disc in and 'fart' about for hours ha ha :¬D
Nin,I agree mate.If I could not sell/trade a £40 game once I was done with then I doubt I would buy hardly games at all.I also do not agree with EA's online pass system.If they dropped the price of their titles to compensate then fair enough,but for a £40 title I think it is extremely unfair.Also think back to a few recent EA titles (FIFA 11,NFS : Hot Pursuit) they have quickly plummeted in price (both new and used), coincidence? I would still buy an EA title if I REALLY wanted it but will most definitely pass on others which I might otherwise have given a go.As for rental,I do that as well.If it's a game I've played through in a few nights and completed then it's perfect for me.Argument is though,how is that helping games developers as I have (in their eyes) basically played through their game for free?.But if it was a £40 purchase or nothing,for me it would have been nothing so they wouldn't have had any revenue from me anyway.Perhaps some kind of pay to play system will surface,£5 to download and deletes itself after a week or something?
Cheers for the comments guys,interesting stuff.
Without the option to trade-in I'd be highly unlikely to ever buy a game (bad for business) without the possibility of rentals I probably wouldn't have even bought a PS3 (even worse for business). Now the games companies are trying to reclaim control with these online licences, a move that is doomed to fail and kill the 2nd hand market or online gaming in one fell swoop.
If you want people to buy games, you've got to make games seem like they're actually worth the price. GTA manages it, so does Little Big Planet, Gran Turismo, Final Fantasy, Arkham Asylum, Ghostbusters and various sports games. You either lower the price on shorter games or you make bigger games. Trying to screw the game shops and the 2nd hand market helps no-one.
Had 'Console owning' friends at work and most of what I watched was their attitude - rent it or buy it for a day and then trade it in! The same is apparent throughout this forum!
This also doesn't include the 'dust-ridden' PC games on the 'shelf'. Too 'one-sided' as usual ha ha :¬D