EA is just money hungry geez

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BearCat204 said:
I dont see a problem with this. If you do choose to rent it, you can get a 7 day free pass to use to check out the online features. To me it is a smart move by EA to try to make it more attractive to buy it new. I also think that pirating has a little to do with this, not much different to me than last year with the teambuilder fee. I have also seen companies like THQ and others starting this same trend. It is what it is
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i agree that it's just business, but it's still really lame of them IMO. i don't necessarily have a problem with it for rentals, but when i buy used I want to experience the full game without limitatations on the online play. in a way it almost defeats the purpose of finding the game for a bargain because all the features aren't going to be there anyway. it's pretty much gotten out of hand at this point. like dan said there's no competetion, and EA can pretty much do whatever they want since they're a monopoly who can pretty much tell everyone to jump while the customer asks how high.
 
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This shouldn't surprise anyone coming from EA. We are talking about the folks who put out Spore, the folks that charge you for a complete game (all the "extras" that are part of NCAA football), and the folks who stop supporting their games a few months after they've been released.

EA is truly an evil monolith of a company.
 
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BearCat204 said:
I dont see a problem with this. If you do choose to rent it, you can get a 7 day free pass to use to check out the online features. To me it is a smart move by EA to try to make it more attractive to buy it new. I also think that pirating has a little to do with this, not much different to me than last year with the teambuilder fee. I have also seen companies like THQ and others starting this same trend. It is what it is
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this may force more folks to pirate..that way they only have to pay the $10 for online...

I wouldnt mind the $10 if EA had some decent servers..but as they are now..they'll just get NCAA outta me..
 
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#29
duckman398686 said:
i agree that it's just business, but it's still really lame of them IMO. i don't necessarily have a problem with it for rentals, but when i buy used I want to experience the full game without limitatations on the online play. in a way it almost defeats the purpose of finding the game for a bargain because all the features aren't going to be there anyway. it's pretty much gotten out of hand at this point. like dan said there's no competetion, and EA can pretty much do whatever they want since they're a monopoly who can pretty much tell everyone to jump while the customer asks how high.
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This is exactly what they are shooting for
 
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#30
dantheman617 said:
This is exactly what they are shooting for
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with exclusive licenses and their otp games that just destroy what 2k can do in that department, EA can push consumers around.

I don't buy much from them anyway, always been tiger and ncaa, but not really feeling either of those anyhow....i will likely get NHL and a slight chance of getting ncaa
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#31
My biggest problem with this new "online pass" is that it just opens the door for future "broadening". Companies tend to be like the scorpion in "The Scorpion and the Frog". If they can find a way to get more money out of us they will do it.
Sure, today the online pass comes with the new games. Maybe next year they say they are dropping the price on their game $10-$15 but the online pass is no longer included. Consumers tend to have ADD so while there may be huge uproar at first, people will forget and end up buying the products anyways (look at MW2 in the PC market as well as Assassin's Creed 2 for PC). Eventually, after the clamor has died down enough and people have kind of forgotten about it all, they will bump the game prices back up to what they were before with the pass.
DLC was originally supposed to be micro-transactions for little things like new armor, which provides little to no actual change in the gameplay, or for expansion packs. Now it is being used to charge for things that should have been included in the first place like the online dynasty mode for Madden last year. Coming from PC gaming, it is amazing to see companies put out 3-4 new maps and charge $5-$10 for it, when it used to be put out for free. Taking things that used to come standard in the game and removing it just to charge for it seems to be becoming a growing norm.
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#32
#32
the only EA game worth buying is NHL... otherwise, screw'um
 
#33
#33
It appears gamestop is supporting this so when u go in there to buy a used game 2 months after it's released make them take $10 off the price.
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#34
#34
This isn't a surprise. The video game companies have been looking for a way to make money off used sales for years. Way back in the day (talking NES days), they were strongly against video game rentals until they relented.

It's already spreading. I forgot the company but another one is already rumored to be planning on the same type of pricing.

Personally I think the business side of video games is starting to stink. I don't like this too much but moreso I'm getting tired of how a lot of DLC is. I don't like how we're charged for things that should have been in the game in the first place. For example, Assassin's Creed 2, both DLC that came out was originally supposed to be in the game, but they left out 2 missions and released as DLC.
 
#35
#35
What really sucks is they get u every single year by tweaking the same software & selling a "new" version & now they're trying to screw u even more. All businesses have just become too greedy.
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#36
#36
They know their demographic.

I was ticked off when EA lost the rights to do a MLB game, but now I hope that they get sued by every player they ever used the likeness of in a NCAA game.
 
#37
#37
They can get away with all the things mentioned in this thread because they realize something that most of us deny: we're addicts. We get ticked off, yet we still keep buying. And by "we," I mean gamers in general.
 
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