EA Sports adds $10 fee to used games for online play

• heel023

  

  http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/how-playing-madden-online-could-cost-you-10/1398633
• gorocks99

  

  At least it comes w/ the new copies of games.
• cbus4life

  Not really unexpected.
• purple_rein

  The question is where does that $10 go?
  
  I am fine with paying $10 as long as it boosts the online experience. Sounds familiar.
• sportchampps

  This is bad for rentals becuase you cant play online if you rent the game unless you pay the 10 buck fee. This fee is not about boosting the online experience. It is a way for EA to hurt people who resale their games. Companies like EA are mad that people buy used copies instead of brand new copies. If you enjoy playing a game and saleing it back or buying a used game instead of new you can kiss it goodbye in a couple more years. Battlefield pretty much did the same thing by making you have to pay for the VIP code.
• ts1227

  

  sportchampps wrote: This is bad for rentals becuase you cant play online if you rent the game unless you pay the 10 buck fee.

  The Kotaku article says there is a 7 day "trial" per gamertag. So, basically you can rent it and play online once.
• cbus4life

  These types of fees work for MMORPG's, but don't really like them in these cases.
• j_crazy

  

  if i remember correctly, the last tiger woods game would autmatically set up challenges and shit if your machine is online. If I don't pay (and rest assured, I won't) that just means that thing won't work, but the game will still function properly?
• tcarrier32

  

  this is fucking retarded. most ps3 games are clearly overpriced, with any game made by EA Sports leading the way with the overpricing. If they dont want people buying used games, then they need to lower the price instead of charging more.
  
  its not like the completely rebuild each game, they update rosters and add new features.
  
  EA Blows anyway, i want NFL 2k5 back.
• gorocks99

  

  NFL 2k5 was boss. The first person view was uniquely awesome, although really difficult to play.
• lhslep134

  

  tcarrier32 wrote: this is fucking retarded. most ps3 games are clearly overpriced, with any game made by EA Sports leading the way with the overpricing. If they dont want people buying used games, then they need to lower the price instead of charging more.
  
  its not like the completely rebuild each game, they update rosters and add new features.
  
  EA Blows anyway, i want NFL 2k5 back.

  gorocks99 wrote: NFL 2k5 was boss. The first person view was uniquely awesome, although really difficult to play.

  When I was in NJ last winter waiting to fly out to Israel, I ventured to the local mall where I found a copy of NFL 2k5 for $.99....needless to say I couldn't pass it up, and I've been playing it since. I'm in my 5th year with the Br(Cl)owns.
• ts1227

  

  gorocks99 wrote: NFL 2k5 was boss. The first person view was uniquely awesome, although really difficult to play.

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  (pretty sure the commercial was for 2k4, but its still hilarious)
• quaker0764

  

  that vid isnt from 2k5. although it is awesome.
• I Wear Pants

  I was going to write a complaint about this sooner, but when I got home I was alerted by my realtor that since I rent that I would no longer have functional cable or phone jacks.
  
  I asked why I hadn't heard about this on the radio, but remembered that it was because I puchased my car used...and therefore the radio had been removed.
  
  From there, the only place I could think of was the library. But when I arrived there was a note on the door. Apparently the books they lent out no longer came with the endings, and since nobody wants to read an unfinished book they lost their funding.
  
  My final desperate attempt was to drive directly to Kotaku and plug my PC into their servers. Unfortunately after I broke in, I discovered that my PC had already been linked to my home's old IP address...and would only allow me to access the internet if I were connected directly to my original ports.
  
  So here I am, sitting in my new home, with my new PC, finally able to post my complaint. And all it cost me was $180k and 12 months in prison for the break-in.
  
  But hey, at least GameStop gets screwed out of a few sales, right?

• I Wear Pants

  Fuckers.
• sportchampps

  WHy not just sell the games over xbox for 40 bucks where you just download it. This way you cut out the money walmart and such makes and then there is no used games for those poeple to sell. If people want to pay 60 bucks to have a hard copy then let them sell them.
• I Wear Pants

  EA already makes full price when the game is sold new.
  
  They act like they lose money when people buy a used game. They don't.
  
  You don't see GM or Ford saying that car will only work if you use the code that comes with it new and that if you buy a used car you have to pay $1000 for a new code. Shit would be ridiculous.
• SQ_Crazies

  

  Nerds.
• I Wear Pants

  Says the guy with 6,500 posts on an internet forum.
• SQ_Crazies

  

  lol
• SQ_Crazies

  

  You shorted me a few..
• killer_ewok

  

  I only buy new games so it doesn't affect me.
• I Wear Pants

  I mean, don't get me wrong. Gamestop is one of my most hated companies but this is the wrong way to go about this.