Gamestop in hot water because of evil game publishers (lawsuit filed). - by lost_soul
Ostriig on 27/3/2010 at 16:50
Yes, your codes are tied to your game account, you can install as many times as you want with all your DLC. I'm not really sure
why there's an expiry date, but I imagine it could indeed be a problem unless newer prints of the game have appropriately farther expiry dates and retailers are directed to update their stock with a newer print when closing in on that date.
Expiry date bollocks aside, EA's "Project $10", at least to the content-related extent it was implemented in Dragon Age, really is a very good compromise between customer's rights and publisher's needs - it justly reduces the value of second-hand copies, but it still affords the owner resale value for it. Hopefully, with the continued usage of this DLC incentive, little retarded scandals such as this one will draw further customer attention to this sort of scheme, thus aptly reducing prices on the second-hand market, and providing recognition to the greater value of new copies.
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You know what's funny? The lawsuit actually mentions this, I think the point being that the print is too small for customers to notice or something.
Of course, it's selective myopia - he can read the small print benefits, but not the only
just smaller print restrictions. An ever-more common condition.
Dresden on 28/3/2010 at 02:35
If the publishers/developers really care, I can't imagine why they just don't disallow resale in the EULA instead of all this messy coupon stuff. I suppose there are probably laws that keep them from doing so.
Fafhrd on 28/3/2010 at 02:52
As I understand it there's some thought that EULAs will never hold up in court, especially for a console title where the act of opening the package has to act as implicit agreement to the EULA.
And really, if a EULA could stop resale, they wouldn't need any form of DRM for anything ever again.
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Hopefully, with the continued usage of this DLC incentive, little retarded scandals such as this one will draw further customer attention to this sort of scheme, thus aptly reducing prices on the second-hand market, and providing recognition to the greater value of new copies.
If you think GameStop is going to reduce the price of used games because of this, you're really naive. They're going to keep them high and continue to hope that will discourage the secondary buyers from buying the DLC after buying a used copy in an attempt to keep more money out of the hands of the publishers.
