EA Sports Fucks Over People Who Buy Used Games

[Guest Mr. Potato Head]

Because they don't have any choice but to do so. If you want to play Madden (which a good portion of gamers do), you have to put up with it. If you want to watch Avatar on Blu-ray (which many people want to do), you have to deal with absurd copy protection. It doesn't make it right, and customers are left with no other choice. There is no other NFL game on the market, so if you want to play football, you're stuck with EA.

They could stick with last year's Madden.

[Gene Kiniski]

Because they don't have any choice but to do so. If you want to play Madden (which a good portion of gamers do), you have to put up with it. If you want to watch Avatar on Blu-ray (which many people want to do), you have to deal with absurd copy protection. It doesn't make it right, and customers are left with no other choice. There is no other NFL game on the market, so if you want to play football, you're stuck with EA.

They could stick with last year's Madden.

That's just dumb.

[zero]

However, I'm a firm believer in getting all that the market will allow. If people are willing to pay this charge, then the corporations should charge it. If people aren't willing to put up with it, it'll go by the way-side pretty damn soon.

But again, that's the problem. Of course people are going to put up with it because they have to if they want to play these games, and in many cases (most notably, Madden), it's their only option as fans of that particular sport. Sure, whatever the market will allow, but the market's scales are tipped in EA's favor.

[SeanDMan]

Because they don't have any choice but to do so. If you want to play Madden (which a good portion of gamers do), you have to put up with it. If you want to watch Avatar on Blu-ray (which many people want to do), you have to deal with absurd copy protection. It doesn't make it right, and customers are left with no other choice. There is no other NFL game on the market, so if you want to play football, you're stuck with EA.

They could stick with last year's Madden.

That's just dumb.

No, you're just dumb. If you think a few angry words on blogspot are going to make a damn bit of difference, you're wrong.

EA is doing this, and there are two things you can do about it; nothing, and like it.

[Guest Mr. Potato Head]

What's to stop EA from putting out two versions of Madden a year--one at the start of the season and one in the bye week before the Super Bowl--if they want? What would stop people from buying both?

Seriously, as long as all gamers have the "I need the newest game no matter what the cost" mentality, of course EA is going to make that cost as high as possible.

[Cactus Drags]

I can't wait to see what happens when they pull this with FIFA.

Edit: On second thoughts, yes I can because it's going to be innocent store e,mployees such as myself taking the flak.

[apsham]

What's to stop EA from putting out two versions of Madden a year--

The multitude of production that they have to put into others games - as well as the updating and patching of the current years title?

[Lint]

What's to stop EA from putting out two versions of Madden a year--

The multitude of production that they have to put into others games - as well as the updating and patching of the current years title?

Except that they already update it on a weekly basis as people get injured, traded, signed etc...so thats not a problem. And they don't patch the current problems with the game so why would they bother with that?

[Cactus Drags]

But they do release patches, and roster updates were few and far between last season.

[Lint]

UbiSoft says it will "probably" adopt a similar policy

and THQ says UFC 2010 will be locked to purchasers of used copies