strangeotron said:
tl dr
I don't respond to being shouted at online or in real life. Try again.
No, I think I'll be ignoring you from now on; I don't dignify anyone inclined to
ever resort to a "tl;dr"[footnote]Just typing that makes me queasy and I need to wash now.[/footnote] with anything but my scorn and derision and
oh look at what you just did - into the "big list o' people I do not bother arguing with any longer on the internets" you go! Because if I continue conversing with you I shall doubtless come to resort to language that the moderators frown upon.
And quite frankly if I'm going to incite mod wrath, it's going to be for something more important to me than verbally smacking about the face and neck some misguided crazy person/troll/corporate shill either willfully disregarding facts or laboring under the
hilarious misconception that Online Pass
prevents anyone from selling on their used games (hint: misconception means
you're wrong).
So you can go right on being deluded, and I shan't attempt to dissuade you because it's clearly an exercise in futility. Please feel free to mistakenly conclude this means you "win", or whatever else it is that unreasonable people arguing from untenable positions do when their sparring partners realize that about them and wisely conclude that there are far more productive things they could be doing instead of metaphorically banging their heads against brick walls - so long as you never talk to me again, I don't care
what you think about the outcome of our interaction.
Pandaman1911 said:
Ehhhh... feels like a slippery slope. What would they be charging for next? It kind of reminds me with what airplanes are doing, sneaking in hidden charges. I think that if they want more money, they should just raise the price of their game instead of doing the sneaky things such as releasing an unfinished game and then making bank on the DLC later, or making you pay for online, etc.
You are suffering from a reading comprehension problem - there is no $10 fee to play the game online past level 5 if, and this is key here,
you purchase a new copy of the game. New retail copies of Homefront don't nickle and dime you for content that should already be in the box - the Online Pass fees
only enter into the equation if you buy the game
used.
Think of it this way - when you purchase a used car/book/couch/what have you, you do so with the understanding that, in exchange for paying less money, you are getting a product that is no longer brand new and so therefore
probably has some wear and tear. But when your product is information contained on a disc, so long as the disc hasn't been scratched to the point where the data can no longer be read it will
always be the same; software is one of the few products in all of existence where there is no real functional difference between a brand spanking new copy and the second-hand one.
Programs like this one introduce the difference that's been missing - now used copies aren't quite as good as retail copies, unless you cough up $10. People who already buy their games new don't see any difference, and if you buy a THQ game used you are not in fact a THQ customer, so they have no obligation to give much of a toss for what you think since you haven't give them any of your money to begin with; pay that $10 and now you
are a THQ customer - think of it as buying a used car that needs its brakes replaced (but a lot cheaper).
Now DLC, that's a whole different ballgame and there are all sorts of possible takes on that, but I certainly hope that if nothing else I've disabused you of the notion that THQ is trying to wrangle an extra $10 out of its existing customers; they're trying to wrangle $10 from all the players who
aren't their customers.
