Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Will Have Online Pass

The Online Pass is simply free DLC for folks who buy new.

Seriously. How is this a bad thing?

Apparently I can't link to the announcement, it's on the official forums.

Meh, if the demo is any indication, I won't care.... because its too awesome for me to care. It's like Skyrim had sex with Fable, and then an affair with Dragon Age, and their genetic code got mixed up, and Kingdoms is the result. It's awesome, I love it.

I don't like online passes, though... won't stop me from buying the game. I am a consumer whore.

After playing the demo, I was on the fence on whether or not to buy this game, this news has helped me decide to not bother with it.

I have recently played this game and I must say its excellent and quite interesting to play it.

It's mainly bad on the premise that attacking the used game market is wrong in some way.

Some will say that every market has a used market to deal with. There's a used book market, used cars market, used computers, etc. Almost anything you can buy, you can also buy used for cheaper. It's part of the rights of consumers, to resell their property to someone else. No one would try to tell you you can't sell your home, or your car, or a book to someone else. Or that when you sell a book, a chapter is missing, or the back seat is missing, or the windows, etc. Some would further infer that it's wrong for the Gaming Industry to be doing just that. To be withholding some of the content and disallowing it to be transfered when the item is resold, devaluing it. Essentially, people want to be sold a product, and then be free to do what they want with that product. People don't want to feel like they are being sold a "license" that can be revoked or changed at whim. They want ownership, and the freedom that comes with owning an item.

(Previous comment was meant to be a response to silverstorm above, this continues)

The counter argument of course is that these missions are not in fact a part of the original product, but an "added" bonus for persons purchasing the game new. That the company is trying to reward people for purchasing the game from them instead of buying used. Additionally, it could be argued that many other industries are doing the very same thing and the Gaming Industry is not unique. Certain warranties on Cars are non-transferable. Some books (like textbooks) come with 1 time use subscriptions to websites offering additional content. Etc. Lastly, it can be argued that there is nothing wrong with a company trying to maximize it's sales by trying to beat out it's competitor that is the used game market. Surely you expect Sony and Microsoft to try to one up one another to increase sales, why should you not expect EA to one up EB Games by offering more content for "free"?

I'm not sure which side I buy into to be honest.