i don't care, because i probably won't be buying it.
this isn't some fangirl thing, if sony think they can charge people for, or restrict, used games, then i won't be buying one of those either.
same here, except i just didn't have the money to buy new at the time.
when i did buy it preowned it was a fiver from a private seller, some guy at a car boot, so no greedy store.
and i ended up buying a full set of dlc for it.
yeah, more people take credit than cash, because you get more, and most people who trade in their games in a store do it to buy new games.
that's a benefit for the industry, people buy more games when they don't have to pay the full price.
you may not be getting any cash, but you're paying that much less for a new game.
and the store isn't giving any cash out, but then they're taking in less on the new game sale, they stil...
that's because they're not 100% profit for the stores.
that industry propaganda, and one of the more ridiculous pieces of propaganda at that.
or do you honestly think people give gamestop or game their games for nothing?
along with the whole, "it's legalised piracy" thing, the 100% profit claim is one of the most ludicrous and deceptive lies the industry puts out about preowned sales.
but then you go and...
that's like saying no system has ever promised to work when you get it home, it's just expected, in fact it's demanded by law.
the same with preowned sales.
it's a legal right we as the consumers have.
the publisher have no right to profit from preowned sales any more than a pirate has the right to copy a game.
do you only buy food that promises to allow you to eat it?
do you only buy clothes that promise to allow you to w...
i'd like a third person option, only an option mind, so people who want to can still play in first person.
so i can play the game without wanting to vomit after ten minutes
well, it was over quicker. ^_^
if you're interested in the tv stuff, and you live in the US, i suppose they catered to you a bit better than Sony.
but as somebody who's primarily interested in these machines for the games, there was little there to interest me.
i didn't hate the reveal, that came later when more details came out.
it was just meh.
simply put, if publishers need to violate my legally defined rights to be profitable, then they should just go out of business.
sorry if that's harsh for people working in the industry.
but i'm not going to give up my rights so your bosses can get their million dollar bonuses.
there's clearly something wrong with the way they do business if they can't make a profit within the framework of the law.
"Why would anyone pre order this thing?"
to stick on ebay? ^_^
you know what i get from this?
"me too"
or.
"we're nice as well"
if they'd come out and said this at first, maybe i'd give them the benefit of the doubt.
but waiting this long and then posting this just after sony's response.
well let's just say it doesn't seem very sincere to me.
they see sony getting some positive responses and they're like, "me too" ...
didn't they say their windows genuine advantage software wasn't spying either?
turned out it was.
and even if ms aren't gonna be spying, that's still a camera that's capable of recording almost everything you do or say in front of it, that's constantly connected to the internet.
no network is totally secure, not even ms's, no matter how much they try to deflect blame for when it is hacked.
the developers and the market?
that's the industry and it's audience right?
if that's not video games then what is?
the drivers that deliver the games?
the person manning the till in the store?
the cleaner who cleans up the rubbish outside the store?
or do you mean the games themselves?
well, who makes the games?
or maybe it's the community.
the ones who call he...
firstly, why is he using lostinplace's video?
secondly, gamestop takes 100% of the profits?
what about the person who sold it to them?
did they give it to them for free?
i stopped watching there, it's clear he buys into the industry propaganda and he's just going to spout the same line the industry does.
and i've heard it all before.
i wouldn't say it's bad.
i'd say it's downright illegal.
i think it has more impact than they think actually.
firstly, most trade ins go towards the purchase of new games.
secondly, the profits from preowned sales allow stores to sell games for less than the rrp, at least in the uk it does.
so i have no doubt, blocking used game sales will do the publishers more harm than good in the long run.
of course they're too short sighted and greedy to consider that side of the argument....
and they should respect the law and stop being greedy douchebags.
"
The main thing is that the used games market is killing publisher / developer profits making it very risky to make new games...If implemented right, having a fee will increase the viability of game development across the board which will give us more content across the platforms.
"
really?
REALLY?
not the worldwide recession that gaming weathered better than most industries, but is finally starting to bite gaming?
...
for all the good work they do for charity, the guys from penny arcade can't half be a bunch of douchebags when they want to.
anyway, it's gratifying to see somebody else actually realises this anti preowned thing is a violation of our rights.
for those going on about how the preowned market is costing publishers money, a claim i'd dispute due to the benefits of the preowned market, if they need to violate my legal rights to make money, then they ...
the one user at a time thing was standard this gen, and it was achieved through a much simpler method.
by playing the game from the disc.
when you lend somebody else the disc, you can't play it.
it's ironic that you cite no mandatory install as one of the reasons why the 360 was better than ps3.
it's like ms set out to make this thing as unfriendly to the consumer as possible.
there's a feminist movement so women get equality with men.
because despite what you may think, we don't.
"Did You Know That Women Are Still Paid Less Than Men?
On average, full-time working women earn just 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. This substantial gap is more than a statistic -- it has real life consequences. When women, who make up nearly half the workforce, bring home less money each day, it means they have less for the e...