Beastxjason: Gamestop is shivering in their boots   

Here we go dragging GS out into the spotlight, the same bull**** that Sony and other companies try to trumpet tirelessly – “We don’t make any used sales money! We are poor little game companies, we must always make full price!” GAMESTOP AIN’T THE ONLY USED GAMES RESELLER, YA KNOW!

I understand wanting to get paid for selling the games – it is only fair to want to be compensated for time, effort, and resources invested in such an endeavor. However, let’s look at reality, folks: Game companies do NOT sell the games straight to the consumer (unless digitally) – they sell the games to the RETAILER (for less than MSRP) who then sells the games to the consumer (at or above MSRP). I though EA was bad with its “pay us money to play a used copy online” model, but UbiSoft’s Assassin’s Creed II “Constant Internet Connection in order to play” was terrible, and this is even worse!

Since Sony loves using the US courts so much for their frivolous whining lawsuits about “He rewrote his machine’s firmware, WHAA WHAA, we want millions in damages even though we can’t prove any ACTUAL harm was done, we’re a poor little struggling game company, WHAA WHAA WHAA”, how about they actually use it to regulate the sale of used games? Maybe make a law which forces all used game retailers to pay a fee or percentage of all used game sales to the companies who produced the games? That way, used games could still flourish, poorer gamers could purchase reduced-price titles which they may have had to skip (and possibly gain a new series they like, leading to possible new games’ sequels’ sales), and the game companies would still get SOME money as opposed to none from a financially-driven decision of no purchase…

But no, it’s simply easier to bilk & soak the consumer than going after what is the root issue – oh wait, I forgot – all consumers are thieves and need to be financially punished, not the companies stealing the sales…

And these corporate a******s wonder why people aren’t buying like they once did…

The other thing that makes me shake my head is that the retail PC version of DCUO comes with a 10 day friend’s pass/trial, which specifically encourages disk sharing. No such free trial exists for PS3 users, not even for other users on the same console.

Meh, it’s just another thing in the laundry list of complaints I have regarding the game.

The bad part is once it’s introduced, slowly other games will also use it. Look at EA games now, single ownership of online multiplayer for new game has become the standard. At least EA is happy to sell you another license but it’s expensive.

As gamers, we can complain but publishers know if they have enough “must own” game titles, plenty of gamers will buy them anyway. Most gamers don’t even check if the new game they are buying has single ownership and prefer to complain later. By then, it’s pointless because they already bought the game. I for one resist buying most games with single ownership per new game because I also play with multiple accounts.

Between the glitches, missing information, poor frame rates, subscription fee, and the one-account activation, I see no compelling reason to pick up this game. Maybe if Sony had worried about optimizing the frame rates, creating more areas, and producing a more interesting game instead of making sure everyone pays them $60 for this ham-strung City of Heroes ripoff, maybe I might have considered…

The mass exodus of people already leaving the game due to the various issues shows how bad it really is – they’re using it for the 30 days they are given, then moving on to something better, i.e. almost anything.

Give it up, Sony – you’ll never relive the days of EverQuest again… EVER! Maybe it is time you corporate greed zombies get a clue: If we (gamers) are going to pay money, we expect something worth the money!