Ubisoft Introduces Uplay Online Pass [Update: Confirmed]

Oh, oh, ohhhhh VINDICATED

This bites! But as you say everybody and their brother is going to be jumping on the bandwagon. I myself think there is a better way to profit from the used game market, and that is to buy stock in the companies that trade in used games or start their company! Stop screwing the poor b*stard who wants to buy used. Come up with more imaginative ways of earning money from the used games market, like the free to play MMO‘s with their micro-transactions. Yesterday in your post about EA pulling the plug on servers you point out: “It costs money to keep a game's online modes operational, which is why every so often a publisher pulls the plug on the servers.” Even in this case more imaginative ways of earning money might have saved these games’ online play. I don’t know, maybe the first year or two of online could be free, with micro-transactions and then they can charge everybody, new and used game owners alike, a small fee to keep the online play going.

meh, it doesn't really matter imo. when i go onto kijiji to look for a used game, i talk down the price $10 simply because i'm going to need to get a 'pass' for said game.

That's what I believe is going to happen. The used game market is simply going to discount "select" used games by an additional $10 since gamestop now makes big titles used $54.99. Nobody is going to buy used when the total cost for a used game is $5 more than a new copy.

If they do drop the price $10, you can be certain they will pay $10 less to the person trading in the game.

In that case, gamestop will make you pay to get rid of your old games. They were stingy enough in the first place.

I never understood anybody who would sell games to gamestop. Why get $30 for a game you bought for $60 when you can pretty much immediately sell it on craigslist for $50. I haven't once had a problem doing this. Now, I simply use gamefly, unless its a big multiplayer title. Which after Brink kinda has me weary of buying new again.

I've yet to see anyone come up with a good reason why publishers should make any money off of used gaames. No other industry makes money off of used sales of their products, why should it be any different for games? Some people have suggested it's for server access, but I call bullshit on that one. When someone buys the game new they have access to the game servers until they get shut down. If they sell the game, they lose that access. I see no reason why that access shouldn't be transferred along with the game when it's sold. The operating costs have not changed. The only reason to charge for it is greed.

See this is why I just steal all my games.

"You don't have to like it, you don't have to agree with it, but you definitely have to get used to it..."

Or, I can find something else to spend my money on. Which is probably whats going to happen.

It's going to be great talking gamestop down 10 bucks on a game, and then never using the multiplayer of said game. Take that gamestop.

UPlay. Moar like "UPay for the same exact experience you got for free before when purchasing a used game", amirite?

I'm with you Anthony. Companies don't have any choice in the matter - the used market is a HUGE drain on the industry. What people don't seem to be "getting" is that the companies don't - and really, shouldn't - care what people who buy games used think about this. Used game purchasers are NOT customers of the publishers. They are customers of the bloodsucking mark-up leeches in the used games market. Companies can ONLY profit from this approach because 1) more people will "buy new" 2) used games will have to be marked down (with the difference in price now going to the publisher instead of gamestop) 3) people refusing to buy the game on principle are (in the VAST majority) used game purchasers - and the brunt of the lost sale is to the used game market, the publisher's mortal enemy.

So act as butthurt as you like folks, this is simple business. And I, for one, would rather see the money going to the people who actually MAKE the games I enjoy. Even if it hurts your wittle feewings.

Meanie! You hurt my wittle feewings! *kicks shin runs away*

Used cars are sold by dealers connected to car manufacturers so why dont the game companies follow suit?