I just bought Medal of Honor last week at $20 at my local GameStop. why? because I couldn't afford it when it first came out. I'm not cheap, nor do I have the luxury to buy a new game every time it comes out. If I had $60 to spend on games, I'd rather get 3 pre-owned games at $20 each. I always find a better deal when it comes to my money.

Some of us are just barely making it by with today's economy, If these companies cared so much about profit, reduce the price to a reasonable one.

Now let's say that GameStop is no more (god forbid) If my neighbor were to buy the new game at $60 and then were to sell it to me for cheap, then he is the acting "gamestop". Because he just sold me a pre-owned game, What will the industry do then? charge him a percentage for selling the game to me?

Companies that sell pre-owned games are like the used car lots that sell pre-owned vehicles. If car manufactures are making it by, Then why can't the video game industry? It's all greed ...

" @they are just mad that people buy games used for cheaper price. "

" PC games have been doing it for years, it's all good.  Down with GameStop!  Those fuckers told me they couldn't give me RDR due to "short supply", I walked next door to Walmart and picked up a copy from the frickin' cabnit filled with them.  Once I get SC2 CE from GameStop, I am done with that shit hole...and just sticking with Amazon and Walmart. "

PC games have been doing it for years, it's all good.  Down with GameStop!  Those fuckers told me they couldn't give me RDR due to "short supply", I walked next door to Walmart and picked up a copy from the frickin' cabnit filled with them.
 
Once I get SC2 CE from GameStop, I am done with that shit hole...and just sticking with Amazon and Walmart.

This cripples games that are more and more often very online centric, ie Skate 3.  I hardly ever pay full price for games (last one was FF13) simply because I don't have a lot of disposable income.  Stores that buy and sell used games will probably adjust their pricing to include or dampen the $10 charge.  The used game industry will exist as long as physical media is used to store game data, which I would assume to be two to four more generations of consoles before everything is distributed online.  Hopefully getting rid of physical media will help increase game sales, and lower costs enough for the price of a game to level out.  I cant really wrap my head around games for $69.99 or more next gen...at what point will people stop buying? 
 
I understand where EA is coming from here, but really, if there are a lot of people online seeing their real world ads in-game and buying their DLC, isn't that more than enough to maintain their servers?  If not they can probably do something with non-registered copies of the game where the game world/menus/loading screens are populated with ads, this is lame and would probably ruin a lot of games though.  I'm sure used game sales extend the life of a game in unpredictable ways, and this is especially hard for EA with their yearly franchise release schedules.  They've just got shit loads of games out there in the field they cant serve all at once.

" Uh, hasn't the first person that bought the game already paid for all of that?  One person can access the servers before the trade and one person can access the servers after the trade - it's just a different person. "

" @Jimbo: no as i said he doesn't own the online part of the game EA does he only contributed to making the servers"

"@Binman88: eBay is also a company dude and EA can't ban companies since they lose more money using that technique instead of simply losing a few customers "

I think I'd rather see EA just ban companies from selling used copies of their games, but continue allowing individuals trade games with their friends and on ebay. That way people will still be able to get lower priced second hand games, without giving any money to the game stores.

People like to nitpick, like to buy games for a cheaper price and make sure their wallet isn't too light after spending money. Quite frankly, I can sort of see where they're coming from. The cost of buying a average game has upped since last generation. 
 
But then when we get on the issue of us gamers and entitlement and piracy... yeah. Let's not go there.

This has already been talked to death, do we really need a new separate topic? 
Just use the previous ones if you want to post your opinion imho, as they already contain a wealth of arguments and counter arguments.

Uh, hasn't the first person that bought the game already paid for all of that?  One person can access the servers before the trade and one person can access the servers after the trade - it's just a different person.

OP is right, it's not a big deal.

People on the 360 already pay a fee to play online. If EA is so concerned about the cost of maintaining online servers, let microsoft fucking do it like everyone else. 

Because they have already been paid for the item... maybe?

Why is everybody making such a big deal on this new policy i mean what exactly is the whole point of the whole point of your arguements? that EA is being greedy? hell nah you know what you bought when you buy a used game? you bought everything inside that one disk but think about this did you buy the servers did you pay for the online expenses of ea did you pay for the free dlc they sometimes offer HELL NO! and people are taking this way out of context when it comes to renting the actual games since ea can simply give 20 days free online on the game or sell a version of the game that is meant to be rented at a higher price.  
 
Now instead of blaming EA and all these gaming companies who only wants to have more profit to be able to make their games and their online servers better why don't we blame the route of all this places like Gamestop or eBAY who doesn't give EA (or any other developer) any money to the sales of used games