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Sony Joins the Offensive Against Pre-Owned Games

Posted by Soulskill on from the saddle-up dept.

BanjoTed writes "In a move to counter sales of pre-owned games, EA recently revealed DLC perks for those who buy new copies of Mass Effect 2 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Now, PlayStation platform holder Sony has jumped on the bandwagon with similar plans for the PSP's SOCOM: Fireteam Bravo 3. '[Players] will need to register their game online before they are able to access the multiplayer component of the title. UMD copies will use a redeemable code while the digital version will authenticate automatically in the background. Furthermore ... anyone buying a pre-owned copy of the game will be forced to cough up $20 to obtain a code to play online."

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  1. Pre-owned = Piracy by grimJester · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, charging buyers of pre-owned games 20 bucks will show those dirty pirates. In other news, as part of my own ongoing fight against piracy I'll install self-destruct mechanisms and DRM in cars and charging 1k for every driver authentication beyond the first. Because I don't want my car analogies to be pirated. It makes perfect sense, I assure you.

  2. Preowned? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Root kit?

  3. Pre-owned? by Scutter · · Score: 4, Funny

    What's wrong with the word "used"? Are you all car dealers now?

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    1. Re:Pre-owned? by jamesh · · Score: 4, Funny

      Pre-owned.... pwned... I never made the connection until just now!

  4. It's a company. Of course it's right. by QuoteMstr · · Score: 5, Funny

    A company can do whatever the hell it wants! Nobody forces you to buy these games after all. Between bong hits, you hippies whine that policies like this lead to decreased consumer choice, greater entrenchment of established players, less innovation, and price increases across the board. So what? That's just too bad. The right of a corporation to do anything it wants it spelled out in the Book of Job. If a corporation does it, that makes it right.

    Still whining, huh? Are you a successful executive? No? When what business do you have talking about anything, loser? Don't like it? Go read a book, or move to a France, or preferably, impress your boss by putting in 12 hours at work tomorrow instead of the expected 10.

  5. Re:I beg to differ - this *is* Piracy by afc_wimbledon · · Score: 2, Funny

    "sTealing".

    See, *hey've already s*olen my "*" key!

  6. Humph! by backbyter · · Score: 1, Funny

    I guess since the last game console I bought was a Magnavox Odyssey, this really doesn't affect me directly.

  7. Re:More than that. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Canada is the reason we have Celine Dion, not Sony... Move along now, eh?

  8. Re:More than that. by Pteraspidomorphi · · Score: 2, Funny

    What about Bryan Adams?

  9. Re:More than that. by CompSci101 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now, now, the Canadian government has apologized for Bryan Adams on several occasions!

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  10. Re:More than that. by AVryhof · · Score: 2, Funny

    Canada made up for all of that with Dan Akroyd, Rick Moranis, and John Candy.

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