EA Blocks Multiplayer Mode on secondhand Console Games

chaparral · 13 May 2010 at 20:21

Looks like console gamers are starting to be treated like us PC gamers at last ...

See ViRuS2k thread here http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18144210

chaparral · 13 May 2010 at 20:33

PapaLazaru said:
lol @ buying second hand games.

Don't forget brand new console games normally cost stupid high prices like about £35 to £45 per game...

Over 95% of my PC games i buy brand new...But many of my console game i buy secondhand because of there prices...i completely refuse to pay about £40 for a game..

chaparral · 13 May 2010 at 20:42

What the bets all the games for the next gen Consoles (PS4/xbox460) with be serial key-coded to the console like most PC games are to completely wipeout the secondhand game market..

chaparral · 14 May 2010 at 01:29

Shamikebab said:
Is there something wrong with the thread already in the console forum

I posted this thread linking to the one in the console forum because many PC gamers like myself rarely look in the console forum..

chaparral · 14 May 2010 at 21:28

Dj_Jestar said:
Nothing, because I've already sold it. It's gone. Not mine anymore.

+1 i agree

Just the same as almost everything that gets sold secondhand....

Example.. someone buys your GPU card off you and nvidia/ATI get nothing..

chaparral · 16 May 2010 at 05:05

WatchTower said:
I think the reduction in price of new games makes more people buy new games instead of second hand games is a valid theory. I was always buying second games because not being able to afford spending 40 odd pounds a game. Now if you go Tescos they randomly sell brand new console titles from £25 to £29 and I've never bought so many new games. This due to the fact I can now actually afford too.

+1

I Can't belive how many PC games i bought in the last 6 months because of the reduced prices in the steam sales..

Reduce the brandnew prices and much more people will buy new..