Welp, guess I won't be buying Battlefield 3. They're pulling the we're-greedy-bastards-so-we're-going-to-screw-over-the-secondhand-market move. Multiplayer is only playable with a one-use pass. So anyone buying secondhand will have to pay an extra $10. Fuck that.
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G.Irish Wrote:Welp, guess I won't be buying Battlefield 3. They're pulling the we're-greedy-bastards-so-we're-going-to-screw-over-the-secondhand-market move. Multiplayer is only playable with a one-use pass. So anyone buying secondhand will have to pay an extra $10. Fuck that.
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I love the bullshit logic too:
EA Rep who thinks he's talking to total morons Wrote:"The whole idea is that we're paying for servers and if you create a new account there is a big process on how that is being handled in the back end," Bach said. "We would rather have you buy a new game than a used game because buying a used game is only a cost to us; we don't get a single dime from a used game, but we still need to create server space and everything for you."
So let me get this straight. You have to pay for server space for every copy. You can't play on the servers if you don't have the disc. So if I sell my copy to Gerald, he's not playing on the servers.
Soooooooooo.... how do you lose money with second party sales again?
That being said, I've found that with "First Party" titles I can do better on amazon after a week or two than I ever can do used. (Especially, to be honest, with EA titles.)
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Yeah that bullshit logic is as ridiculous as it is greedy. Every other business deals with the secondhand market without resorting to greedy nonsense, why can't videogames?
Could you imagine if when you bought a car, you got a one time use key that would only start the car using your fingerprint? Then if you sold the car you had to pay 1/6th the cost of the new car to get a new key for the new owner?
Unfortunately I don't think gamers will revolt in enough numbers to stop this sort of practice. I think the nickel and diming will only get worse for games in the future.
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G.Irish Wrote:Every other business deals with the secondhand market without resorting to greedy nonsense, why can't videogames?
Some music and software comes to mind.
Welcome to the world of digital media eroding fair use.
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D_Eclipse9916 Wrote:Yeah, ill throw you some cash either over paypal or I can throw you a few bucks in person in august summit. I really appreciate it.
Send me your address, donkey.
In other news, Crysis 2 is still awesome. The multiplayer is a much more (if you ask me) in-depth and strategic experience...even if it does have a steeper learning curve. Still getting my bearings in the multiplayer. I got skunked my very first round, but since then I'm actually pretty much where I was at COD, but just taking the "standard" built-in classes.
And I'm *still* doing the single player campaign. Running through a ruined new york blasting aliens with my sniper rifle has been alot more fun (for me) than following a crazy russian all through the cold war third world. Also, sneaking up behind a motherfucker while invisible and stabbing them IN THE DAMNED THROAT is almost cathartic after a long day at work.
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Finally got in to CoD Elite beta.
As a stats nerd, there is some seriously cool stuff in here... but you shouldn't have to pay for it. You can view pretty much everything about all your and anyone else's games. I can even look at what all your custom classes are so I can copy you.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth
Lee wrecks some shit with Chopper Gunner!
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth
i'm in as well, but the e-mail they sent doesn't work. 404 errors all over the place.
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I timed out the first couple tries. I think the server is getting hammered.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth
Apoc Wrote:Lee wrecks some shit with Chopper Gunner!
Look at all those gay RC XD deaths!!
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you've never been killed by a sam turret? you're not playing hard enough.
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Mike Wrote:you've never been killed by a sam turret? you're not playing hard enough. I'm not playing at all lately. I've kind of lost interest...the last time I was on the XBOX it was playing Tiger Woods '12 to kill some time :?
Just waiting for the new COD and Gears 3 to come out~~
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According to Elite, you played one game a few days ago with a +1. Your new (topless) g/f perhaps?
I'm probably just about done with BO. GoW3 comes out in about a month and I need to beat Crysis2 before it does. Of course I'm the idiot that signed up for night class on Tuesdays that starts the day GoW3 comes out. :x
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth
gears online bores me. might buy to rush through the co-up with one of you.
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Apoc Wrote:According to Elite, you played one game a few days ago with a +1. Your new (topless) g/f perhaps?
I'm probably just about done with BO. GoW3 comes out in about a month and I need to beat Crysis2 before it does. Of course I'm the idiot that signed up for night class on Tuesdays that starts the day GoW3 comes out. :x yea my buddy stefan wanted to show me what the wager matches were all about so we played for a little bit...it def didnt excite me to the point of wanting to play more.
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Mike Wrote:gears online bores me. might buy to rush through the co-up with one of you.
I've never played online and don't really intend to... just wanted to co-op cause I've never done any of the previous versions.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth
wager matches are campfests. i have 0 fun with them.
i went ahead and beat the campaign tonight. treyarch sucks at making single player games. story? wtf. ai skill/cheat levels? awful... just as in w@w.
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Ordered GoW3 today. Amazon has a promo that if you order it, you get $20 in video game credit for a future purchase. With MW3 coming in two months, the credit should come in handy.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth
Apoc Wrote:Ordered GoW3 today. Amazon has a promo that if you order it, you get $20 in video game credit for a future purchase. With MW3 coming in two months, the credit should come in handy. Link for the lazy?
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth
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