Op Ed

GameFront - Why Every Defense of Online Passes Has Been Bullsh**.
I am not going to go into the many better ways that publishers could be coping with used sales, nor am I going to reiterate exactly how bad the online pass scam truly is. I’ve done that many times, all over the Internet. However, I want to make it clear that the situation affects many, many more people than have been represented lately. It’s not just about people getting mad that they can’t buy games used anymore. As a reviewer, I get most games free, so this affects me less than most, and I’M still pissed off by online passes. I am pissed off because they’re a bad idea, with many negative implications, and it sickens me how gleefully the white knights have glossed over those implications to focus on the ONE issue that they’re vaguely correct about.

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Krovven wrote on Feb 3, 2012, 13:29:
What's your point? They effect value. Discounting that is foolish and naive. If that value didn't matter, then everyone would buy their games digitally, not be able to trade them in at all and this discussion wouldn't be happening.

Ignoring your unnecessary rudeness, there's nothing foolish or naive about what I was saying. My point was simply that the game itself is functionally identical. The packaging can affect the value in small ways but the whole issue is trading in the game itself, not its packaging. That's part of where the complexity in this comes from, people don't disassociate the concept of ownership from the physical media, that's where the value is.

And it's a protected right for the Publishers to try and change how their products are valued and sold.

Ok but no one was arguing whether they're entitled to do so. Personally I'd like to see them find a middle ground that doesn't affect the consumer and just goes right to the heart of the problem with Gamestop. I'm not sure online passes are the right approach with that in mind but time will tell. I suspect most of the large publishers are already eying ways to turn "online passes" into subscriptions and that's where the industry loses my support.

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