@Binman88: Simply put it like this when EA bans the companies from selling their product they might get to legal trouble although i am not sure since im not familiar with selling and reselling laws but if it does come to that then EA would lose money in going to court they'll win yes but still lose a tad bit of money
@GmanHull: It is comparable to a car cuz imo the online is like a car's warranty you want it you gotta pay for it when its used if you bought the car new then you get free warranty simple right That solution may work cause i wouldn't mind doing something like that for games that absolutely suck at multi-player or for any game in that matter. Your second point only leads me to say this if places like gamespot who officially support trading in of used games only pays the developers a tad bit of the profit then we wouldn't have this problem in the first place
Now this is not on the release of Home's Open Beta this is on the real Home the truly advertised Home
When i first started home I was insanely bored and fucking pissed that i actually used up 3gb+ of my HDD to actually support it not to mention that a lot of spaces somehow didn't feel complete that there's something that needs to change. The home spaces that were only available then was the official home spaces and a far cry 2 space if I remember correctly. Another thing i really hated was simply the characters there was no point to actually customizing your characters face because there is no easier way to make your character look like you not to fucking mention how there was almost nothing good you can get for free.
Well a few updates came out and FNR4 also came out with the face detection and automatically rendering the characters face to actually look like you and I was expecting something similar to come to home but it still didn't. Although I must admit i did have a lot of fun collecting free items on home which is what most people actually do there which leads me to my second point: you can't actually do anything else by yourself at home except just looking for items to wear which no one guy or gal will actually notice so theres really no point
And it leads me to when they first launched universal game-launching "REJOICE" was something i felt when i first heard of it "DISGUST" when i used it. The main problem with game-launching in general is actually simple... IT WON'T TAKE YOU DIRECTLY TO THE MULTIPLAYER SCREEN!!! and the reason why i really hat this is simple as well a lot of first-timers will not know what to do and play campaign instead. One other thing before moving on is why can't sony simply make the values on "unsupported games" fixed for example Bad Company is not supported so you have a choice that you launch a game through home but when you do you'll see that the menu is so simplistic that it won't even take into account the number of players that are actually supported in bad company and instead it rely's on you the user to pick the right options so that it won't fail.
Finally to present day home whilst some problems may have been fixed and the UI now made beautiful it still remains these three facts above plus the one lingering fact that theres absolutely nothing that can draw you in at home! So now that sony has announced that home is going out of its beta i can only Hope for The Best Prepare for the Worst
*NOTE* this is not a rant just my opinion on what makes drives home to the ground for many people
@Jimbo: no as i said he doesn't own the online part of the game EA does he only contributed to making the servers
@Meteora: What the hell do you mean man Gaming has always been this expensive
@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
@GmanHull: No as i said when you buy a used game you pay for the contents on the disk plus the used store's expenses while if you pay for it Bnew then you pay for the contents and the developers expenses
@sixghost: see Ms doesn't make servers for the games so unless they actually make dedicated servers like the servers on Battlefield Badcompany 2 then i can agree with
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
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