PlayStation®3 General Discussion

[bobchickenkfc]

Can someone answer this very simple question for me. Why does the game industry fight second hand products when car companies, DVD and blu ray producers don't. Imagine buying a used car only to find you had to buy the steering wheel separate because you bought a second hand product. it's so stupid. Why does the games industry do this when second hand DVDs blu rays cars and books are avaiable owiout restriction. Can someone tell me the difference????

[ian111199]

When you buy games second hand the greedy publishers such activsion dont get any money only the store does

[GraphiteGB]

Don't forget about the Small developers that take a % from sales but had a lower monthly wage to insure his game got made, Instead of a high Monthly wage that then cost the Publisher too much so the game would have been scrapped.  

[Gawge]

Because they can.

Car manufacturers would do it if they could, but they can't.

I suppose DVD's could be locked, but there are so many different devices to play DVD's on (many of which do not connect to the internet).

Game companies (like every other company in the world) want to increase the amount of money they get. Since they get no (or very little) benefit from the used-games market, and there is potentially a very big benefit from killing the used-games market, they are going to try to kill the used-games market if they have the means. With online passes, they now have the means.

Online passes don't really stop anybody from buying the game new (apart from a few people who might not buy on principle, but hardly a noticeable amount). But they will encourage some people who may have bought the game used, to buy it new instead, and others will pay for the online pass. So it is good all around the games companies - why wouldn't they?

[ytevo79]

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bobchickenkfc wrote:
Can someone answer this very simple question for me. Why does the game industry fight second hand products when car companies, DVD and blu ray producers don't. Imagine buying a used car only to find you had to buy the steering wheel separate because you bought a second hand product. it's so stupid. Why does the games industry do this when second hand DVDs blu rays cars and books are avaiable owiout restriction. Can someone tell me the difference????

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Mostly because when someone buys a game second hand and play it online, they haven't contributed to the server costs like the people who bought the game new did. Hence the online pass.

[JOHNY--BRAVO]

that could be true ytevo but then dice introduce rental servers even though bf3 has online pass, so that reply doesnt really stand as people without the online pass cant play on a rental server that somebody else has paid for. Simple answer greed.

[el-ve]

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ytevo79 wrote:

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bobchickenkfc wrote:
Can someone answer this very simple question for me. Why does the game industry fight second hand products when car companies, DVD and blu ray producers don't. Imagine buying a used car only to find you had to buy the steering wheel separate because you bought a second hand product. it's so stupid. Why does the games industry do this when second hand DVDs blu rays cars and books are avaiable owiout restriction. Can someone tell me the difference????

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Mostly because when someone buys a game second hand and play it online, they haven't contributed to the server costs like the people who bought the game new did. Hence the online pass.

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This.

the other choice will be subs for online gaming, for any single player content I don't think there should be any extra cost.

try PC gaming see what you think, game mods,dedicated servers, cheaper games. hardware costs a load more though. one time codes with all games. doesn't stop me (or anyone else) buying them, wether the games are on or offline. 

DRM is here on all formats now ether we like it or not! 

(even VHS had copy protection!) 

[Alestes]

Because they can.

They been very successful in doing it on the PC, where pretty much all games these days are locked on Steam or something similiar.

[el-ve]

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Alestes wrote:

Because they can.

They been very successful in doing it on the PC, where pretty much all games these days are locked on Steam or something similiar.

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try your motherboard, MAC address anyone? 

[THE_FORCE]

I think it's down to hygiene.

They are trying to protect us from receiving used games through the post, only to find manky covers and torn instruction manuals with bits of old food and crusty bogies attached.