EA Sports Locks Multiplayer from Used Copies

[Yoshi]

Every other industry can survive just fine with a used market, why the fuck can't videogames?

Don't give me this bullshit that developers are getting raped, you better think that Toyota is getting raped when some one buys a used car, or that the contractor is getting raped when some one buys a used house, or the movie studios are getting raped when some one buys a used movie. Etc etc.

Run on horrible sentences for the win.

And here is more proof. Where is the huge national retailer of used movies? And the same dealers that sell new cars sell used ones. So they get to profit twice from those cars. Remember, dealers are tied into the manufacturers in that industry.

[Yoshi]

Oh god, and you know who loves Madden AND stealing?????????

aren

[Opaque]

You can't really compare those markets for a number of reasons. No specific product should be compared to a video game in this thread, at least not in the way most of you are trying to.

I choose to look at services, not products; which is why I compared a cars warranty to an online subscription, but you could just as easily have made the product in my analogy a television or washing machine.

[Yoshi]

The care warranty comparison is interesting, since you usually have to buy a warranty for a used car.

[Diff-chan]

Wait, is free marketeer Yoshi is essentially taking the RIAA/MPAA side, namely that content producers should have a total lock on their content and get paid every time it switches hands? I am genuinely surprised.

[Opaque]

The care warranty comparison is interesting, since you usually have to buy a warranty for a used car.

The point would be if you bought a car with a 100,000 mile 5 year warranty and sold it three days later, does the new owner not get to take advantage of the warranty anymore? Of course they get to. If a new game is purchased and sold to someone else three days later, why wouldn't the new person get to play it online just like the original owner? EA is selling a product with online support, the controller changing hands shouldn't change the product.

Edit: To clarify the main difference here is that buying a game from gamestop is like buying a used car out of auto trader, you aren't going back to EA and getting a used Madden at a much lower cost and then deciding if you want online support. If that were the case this would be a different story. You're buying from a third party, which means the product changed hands, but the services should be tied to the product, not the person.

[Melf]

And here is more proof. Where is the huge national retailer of used movies?

Don't Blockbuster and Hollywood Video and other chains sell used movies?

And the same dealers that sell new cars sell used ones. So they get to profit twice from those cars.

Doesn't Gamestop sell new games?

[Yoshi]

Don't Blockbuster and Hollywood Video and other chains sell used movies?

They sell former rentals, just like they do with games. There is no GameStop of movies that moves gazillions of used copies.

[Opaque]

Don't Blockbuster and Hollywood Video and other chains sell used movies?

They also rent them, which is theoretically worse, especially for games.

Who the fuck is ever going to buy DLC or pay for online play for a game they rented from Blockbuster? At least when Gamestop sells me a used game I'm 95% of the time going to keep it and get any DLC that sounds fun.

[kingoffighters]

There is no market/margin for used movies because they are so cheap to begin with. You can buy a lot of DVDs for $4.99 new.