I truly, truly doubt it.

I doubt the game sells more than 50,000 copies on consoles.

[QUOTE="SW__Troll"]

I think it's mostly ok.

The justification for it is that developers are artificially decreasing the value of a used game which SHOULD be the case. There should be incentive for you to buy new whereas before online passes a used copy functioned 100% exactly like a new copy (assuming it wasn't damaged).

Seiki_sands

It's not an incentive to buy new, it's a disincentive to buy used.

tomato potato

I think many people would be very happy to accept incentives to buy new, which would be bonuses such as bundle coupons for other software, future early access to betas, certain kinds of packaging that likely won't be resold like cloth maps, etc.

As long as anything can be bought used it will. I don't care how much content is included in a game, or how high the metacritic score is, you will ALWAYS find used versions of those games, and developers realize this.

Oh sure if a developer only survived off day one sales then online passes would be a joke, but plenty of games go on to sell months, or years after release.

Adapt or die.

The most successful Japanese companies have always been developers that have catered to both Western, and Japanese tastes. Games like Mario, Metal Gear Solid, Castlevania, Megaman, Sonic, etc etc all helped their respective companies to become the biggest in Japan (and some are of the largest in the world).

There was a time when consoles weren't too expensive to put the super-Japanese games on, but not in today's market. Only handhelds can really support those games nowadays, but if the Japanese devs still don't want to adapt in 5-6 years time when handheld development prices increase to a point where they can't really sustain themselves then who knows what'll happen. Maybe they'll all crumble, or maybe they'll have begun exploring different options by that point like a smart developer should.

I think it's mostly ok.

The justification for it is that developers are artificially decreasing the value of a used game which SHOULD be the case. There should be incentive for you to buy new whereas before online passes a used copy functioned 100% exactly like a new copy (assuming it wasn't damaged).

[QUOTE="Lethalhazard"][QUOTE="finalfantasy94"]

If the game was a broken mess you might have something there. The fact they take insperation from indiana jones doesint make them talentless.

finalfantasy94

:roll: yea didint run into these "poor controls" or "bugs" you speak of in UC1. If these were as serious as you say you would hear more about this in other opinoins.

UC3 actually had terrible input latency (might still unless they patched already)

But it launched like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5-9oV9cXwY

[QUOTE="RadecSupreme"]

[QUOTE="Chris_Williams"] you wanna know why most of us are saying ITS A GOOD THING because everyone sees it being abuse, you see, i see it, sony has seen it, all this time but they just haven't done anything about it till now. There are even people on here who occasionally ask to trade psn games or DLC with people they don't even know, their are websites that were made just so people can trade passwords and information to game share. I know people are abusing it and you know it too Chris_Williams

Who cares if people are abusing it? ITS ONLY 5 SHARES. BIG F DEAL! Some people have several PS3s and want to have the content on all of theirs. Some people want to go to a friend's house to play mortal kombat online coop but now they cant. The online passes plus this crap is so terrible. Console gaming is becoming total crap.

[QUOTE="mr_zombie60"]

[QUOTE="SW__Troll"]ITT: Console gamers who don't care at all that something is being taken from them Every single time a feature is taken, or a measure is put in place that harms console gamers they seem to rather enjoy it. I don't get it.Chris_Williams

For many, it doesn't necessarily do any harm, but I will concur on that last part. I really don't understand why people are looking at this as a positive implementation.