Pachter: DLC Codes Not Hurting Pre-Owned Sales

[MetalDooley]

I was about to buy Dragon Age the other day, when I flipped over the box and noticed that the DLC code expired on the 18th of April, 2010. I was so annoyed at the thought of being denied content I was paying full price for that I refused to buy it after that.

The irony is that a pre-owned copy would now have the same amount of content, and be cheaper. So I'm not surprised - but then Patcher is Mr Stating the Bleeding Obvious of the gaming industry.

They actually got rid of the expiry date on the code.I bought Dragon Age about a month ago and the code worked fine despite the back of the box saying it was only valid until April 30th 2010

Oh good. It still bugs me as to why they'd include an expiry date in the first place...

To convince people to buy the game at launch or within the first few months of launching when it's still full price I'd imagine