News EA Sports to charge for multiplayer

Shame on EA. I never bother with multiplayer and buy all my games from Steam but am still sad to hear about the (potential) demise of second hand trading for those that it concerns as most people probably still buy games on disc. If you buy a game you should be able to use all it's features.

BTW BluRay burners are now around £130 and writable 25GB discs can be bought for under £2 so if PS3 piracy doesn't exist yet it probably will do soon...

 

The lack of piracy on the PS3 isn't down to the cost of Blu-Ray burners and discs...

 

IF I were to try pirating a PS3 game that would certainly stop me. It seems like a pretty fair reason. But out of curiosity, since I know little about console piracy techniques, what is the real reason for the lack of PS3 piracy?

Oh, and I don't think this is a half bad idea. Sounded like a bad idea at first that might start some evil greedy trend, but then remembered all the PC restrictions such as Steam which offer no resale at all and realized that it's actually pretty lax.

Also, not sure how they will stop pirated games from being able to purchase a new code as they said they will, but if a pirate works around it and still has to pay $10 that's better than nothing.

 

I've not looked into PS3 piracy, I was replying to the posts above about the high prices of burners and one person said a blank bluray costs half as much as a game!

 

It's certainly a deterrent to potential pirates, but AFAIK the PS3 firmware hasn't been hacked yet to allow copied games to be played (though there were rumours of it being hacked not so long ago, I don't know whether they turned out to be true or not).

 

I couldn't careless for any type of pro sport games.

Why would anyone wanted to pay for some pro sports figures had their picture flashing on the box/cover that is beyond me?

 

Huh?

 

It got hacked...

 

Why do you think a used game should be so much less new game? It's a disc. Unless it got a scratch and became unplayable (at which point I'd return it and demand a refund anyway) the game hasn't changed or diminished in anyway since purchased. At *most* you might lose the manual. Whoop-di-do.

I pay near full price for a used game as I would for a new version. If main stores have discounted the game to 25 because of age or whatever, I expect the use game to be similar, but all in all, I don't see why people feel obligated to their used game to be so much cheaper.

 

If people can't get full use of the game 2nd hand, they'll pay less for it.
If people pay less for 2nd hand games, people who buy new will think twice about buying it in the first place as the cost is more once you allow for reduced resale value.
If people think twice about buying a new game, EA will have lower sales and less profit.

 

I'm wondering what Microsoft thinks of this, wasn't it policy for games to have 1000 achievement points* without needing to purchase anything extra (DLC wise) other than XBL (for online multiplayer obviously), so if these games contain online achievements (from the initial 1000) doesn't that break this policy?

tbh, I don't like this idea at all. The Mass Effect 2 method was great - the DLC didn't impact on the core gameplay (if you wanted the extra character/weapons/missions then great, if not it didn't matter), this does.


*I know some games have already broken this PGR3 only had 900 odd and Helboy had less than 1000 but was supposed to have free DLC that brought the total up to 1000 (which never turned up.)

 

I can see this blowing up in their face...

 

Yep, it got hacked. I'm impressed with the Enron-shares-esque collapse in Blu-Ray burner and disc prices (I don't own a Blu-Ray player, let alone a burner) so I'm pretty sure that sooner or later piracy will get a grip on the PS3. I don't think it'll ever be as bad as the Xbox - the PS3 is a more expensive console bought by wealthier people in my experience, as in, the sort of people who don't worry about paying for their games.

 

The prices have gotten pretty similar now, I recently bought my slim PS3 for $300, same price as the similarly equipped 360 Elite. But I think you are right. It'd be downright foolish to claim that each console doesn't have a certain personality and didn't bring certain baggage with its name. PS3, at least as I see it, was designed and marketed at a more 'serious' gamer. For people who enjoy quality media and gaming. This is supported by the smooth black design of the console which blends well with a home media center, the multi-media ready GUI and features, addition of Blu-ray and originally high price. If the PS3 were a person, I'd expect some asshole in a black turtleneck at a Porsche dealership. The 360, on the other hand, provides a more casual experience at its most basic level yet spans to fit just about every general gamer it can, right up to the more 'hardcore' side. It's displayed as a gaming device above all. This is supported by the casually named "Arcade" version countering the "Elite" version, along with the physical styling and color which says: I am rounded, fresh and fun, I play games. Looking at the 360, I see a young, chubby American boy who manages to represent both the "Yay NFL2k10!" casual side and the "1337 MW2 pnwz0r machine" hardcore side. Love or hate either one, it's really a personal choice on that level, but it would seem like the asshole at the Porsche dealership is more likely to scoff at piracy (and trust me, he's great at scoffing) and buy games just because he can.

 

Umm, no it didn't, it was Rumored to have been , then Sony look away linuX and that was it, still not one pirated game on Ps3.

 

Meh, once I beat a game I'm pretty much done with it. Besides EA charges original owners money for DLC anyway! All the stores have to do is lower the cost of the resold game and the market will continue to thrive.

 

It looks like everyone is trying to make more money nowadays! Bye bye the days of trading games when you were finished!

 

Ha HA HA EA is stupid at best. just pirate the dam game and play multi player on a private server if you really got to have it that bad.

I really do think the publisher and second hand shop can come to a better deal than oh let's just stick it to the consumer. Most DLC isn't worth $10 bucks (after dropping $60) and $10 for second hand multi player, put it this way I sold my old Madden 2009 for the new Madden 2010 and most old versions take their servers offline

 

+1 Krayzie_B.o.n.e.