EA Sports Locks Multiplayer from Used Copies

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Originally Posted by Destro777

Haha look at what the Battlefield gameplay designer just tweeted:

http://twitter.com/demize99

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What. A. Cunt.

Newflash to the guys who made Battlefield: 1942, 2, Bad Company, 1943, Bad Company 2 were all the same fucking game.

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Originally Posted by Destro777

Haha look at what the Battlefield gameplay designer just tweeted:

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He does realize his company has been paid for all those used copies, right?

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Originally Posted by Diff-chan

There is absolutely nothing of fact backing up this statement.

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...yeah because its common sense.

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Originally Posted by Cheebs

We must stop used games before it is too late.

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Indeed. We must also stop game rentals and cheat code devices like Nintendo once tried to and warned us about. Nintendo died because of those!

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Originally Posted by dave is ok

Newflash to the guys who made Battlefield: 1942, 2, Bad Company, 1943, Bad Company 2 were all the same fucking game.

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So is every MMORPG/Chat program out there.

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Originally Posted by Destro777

...yeah because its common sense.

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Ahhh so we have precedence from other industries right? Cause used car sales totally killed the car industry. Used dvd sales fucking destroyed the movie industry. etc etc

Where is there ANY evidence of used games "destroying" the video game industry? Show me some kind of proof.

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Originally Posted by Destro777

...yeah because its common sense.

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Please explain.

Because I was buying used games 15 years ago from GameStop, of course back then it was EB, Babbage's, Software Etc., and so forth. Since that time the industry has grown in size at least 5 times. When are used games going to finish off the industry?

Used condoms have not destroyed the sex industry.

That guy from BF whatever whatever also said this:

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The question is, is multiplayer mode a good, or a service? It looks a lot like a service from here.

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Which is kind of hard to argue with.

MMOs have done this for a very long time, and will continue to, because things like server maintenance and patching in new content don't happen by magic, it takes people who need to make a living doing lots and fucking lots of work to make those things a reality. So in the end, the real question here is going to be: can EA provide a high enough quality of server stability and support to justify doing this?

Given their past history, I fucking doubt it. Everyone is going to pay $10 just to have this happen:

http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/5...64_Vd67c-L.jpg