As many of you probably know Sony has announced its very own PS pass which is going to be implemented into some first party games. In short this is very similar to THQs or Ubisoft online pass, to play multiplayer a code has to be activated this comes with the game when buying new but you have to pay for this pass if you have a second hand copy *gasp*
Yes this is the issue that has been getting so many people whining. So lets go over a few things and look at this rationally to why this is not such a huge crisis. Starting with Resistance 3 in which this pass system is being started with here are a few things that I feel need clearing up or just explaining to some people about this. It is all my opinion but a rational outlook and any comments and corrections or your own opinions just comment after reading I'll reply asap
1) Boycotting. So lets start with some comments about Resistance 3 I've seen things like "if they don't get rid of this I wont be buying" this is a pointless boycott. Let me redefine the point that you only will need a pass if your buying it second hand, when buying new its no different than buying every other game and wont cost any extra. That leaves people who are planning to buy day 1 or just new no reason to boycott and those who were planning to buy second hand and now don't want to because of the online pass will actually have no effect what so ever. If people believe boycotting buying second hand games will somehow convince Sony to stop this pass then there going to be sorely mistaken. Therefore I don't see how people are going to boycott R3.
2) Tank/Flop. My second point is also based on a comment I read this one was suggesting that Resistance 3 will actually tank and suffer purely based off of this PS pass. As mentioned before buying new doesn't effect the price of the game and requires minimal extra effort, it may discourage second hand sales but that's not going to make R3 tank or flop as second hand sales aren't counted and don't actually give the developer money anyway. The comment did suggest also that people wont buy the game new because they wont be able to sell it later because of this pass. While this is quite an indirect worry it could happen if stores will not buy the game off you. However I don't see how they wont, a game store deals in games, chances are the store clerk may not even know about the pass system time will tell on this one but again I don't see the masses doing this
3) Milking gamers. Another general idea going round is that this is just another way for a big company to make more money out of us gamers. While this part is actually kinda true in the fact that us gamers will be paying a bit more money its for the benefit of the online service being given to us. The same reason why people argue that Xbox Live is better than PSN. This way more money go to the developers as they actually get something from second hand sales. I don't think the companies are doing this just because they can but because its a more financially viable business model that allows for these big budget games
4) Blame. This one is directly related to R3 and Insonamniac games as the article that caused this blog was one where they were taking a lot of hits from gamers because of this and its totally unjust. It's Sony's idea and even they shouldn't be blamed as its a trend in the market and a lot of online games now have a similar thing (and are receiving a fair amount of hate on there own) but whining and complaining is not helping
5) Principle. So here I actually agree with others when annoyed about this part, the principle of buying a game and then having to pay to do everything on it. This is annoying but unfortunately how it goes with several things, hell if I could pay for the online only for certain games I would but it doesn't work like that. I cant defend this one so much but it is for the benefit of the developers and not just greed
Hope this has helped balance and cleared up a few things about the PS pass and this is a open site so comments and debates are encouraged but keep it mature if you can and thanks for reading
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