I will not buy any game from any developer with this restriction. Not just because it is greedy, anti-consumer and shows contempt for customers but for practical reasons. They've devalued the games to the point where I can't play them. I usually don't even play a lot of multi-player but my son does. I have a strategy that has worked for some time. Buy the game on Amazon for $40 - often games that sell at Gamestop for $60 can be had on Amazon for $40. Play the game until we are sick of it (usually not that long) then put it back on Amazon for $20. All told the experience cost me $20 and some of my time.
In a lot of ways this reminds me of the tactics employed by Netflix recently. It will have the intended side effect of destroying physical media sales while promoting online distribution. Businesses have decided that all you have to do is piss off the consumer, force them into a position where they won't pay such a crazy price and then give them the alternative you wanted them to choose all along at a better price. Over time you control the distribution and completely end secondary markets.
We've seen this coming for a long time. Ever since MS bought fast. We use an OEM packaged FAST with our Documentum content server. EMC is planning to move away from FAST to Lucene in the next version. Honestly, I say good riddance to FAST. FAST has been nothing but a headache but FAST on Windows, now that is a nightmare.
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I will not buy any game from any developer with this restriction. Not just because it is greedy, anti-consumer and shows contempt for customers but for practical reasons. They've devalued the games to the point where I can't play them. I usually don't even play a lot of multi-player but my son does. I have a strategy that has worked for some time. Buy the game on Amazon for $40 - often games that sell at Gamestop for $60 can be had on Amazon for $40. Play the game until we are sick of it (usually not that long) then put it back on Amazon for $20. All told the experience cost me $20 and some of my time. In a lot of ways this reminds me of the tactics employed by Netflix recently. It will have the intended side effect of destroying physical media sales while promoting online distribution. Businesses have decided that all you have to do is piss off the consumer, force them into a position where they won't pay such a crazy price and then give them the alternative you wanted them to choose all along at a better price. Over time you control the distribution and completely end secondary markets.
Be sure to thank Geohotz for this.
If you cheered his 'liberation' of the PS3 you can't really be unhypocratically mad about Sony's response.
Damn it. First I will do no harm! See, you are wrong.
We've seen this coming for a long time. Ever since MS bought fast. We use an OEM packaged FAST with our Documentum content server. EMC is planning to move away from FAST to Lucene in the next version. Honestly, I say good riddance to FAST. FAST has been nothing but a headache but FAST on Windows, now that is a nightmare.