Ubisoft Eyes EA's Used Games Initiatives

(WARNING Im going to rant bad spelling and grammer may be present the following views are oppinions only so yknow take it all with a grain of salt no hard feelings ok)

when you buy the game you buy the whole thing you shouldnt have to unlock anything

and incentive to buy new is fine but dont go cutting out whole levels

all this day one dlc is bad news as consoles/pc's and hdd's break down and games stop making a profit and dlc stops being made available to download. all games wether they were bought new or not end up as the worst version of that game. THAT is not what you bought

what they need to do is drop the price of the game as sales drop if a new copy of the game is competative with a used copy even if its a little more Ill buy it. thats the only thing that will stop the used game market do they think what their doing will stop used games?.

you could argue that it will just make people wait for the price to drop. that only happens if you cant afford the game or if the game simply isnt worth it either way its not going to be bought full price either take advantage of that yourselves or the used market will.

bottom line make the game worth buying new (many games sell hundreds of thousands of copy's in their first week if not millions so dont tell me my method wont turn a prothet) that way they will buy it new and then not sell/trade it or atleast keep it for longer. then when you lower the price to compete with the used market your not losing many (if any) full price sales. infact since you would be in essence getting most of the used sales you would likely make more money than if you kept the price up.

look if your game isnt worth buying new dont be childish because you didnt get all the money your greedy hands wanted. do your job make a good game youll get your money dont hold parts of your game to ransome till people pay up.

"I wonder if they're counting the negative effect in this."

It's very doubtful. When companies do something like this, they only ever count the figures that work best for their spin. The rest of it just doesn't exist.

I don't have a problem with publishers giving free content to people who buy games new. As long as publishers don't withold content vital to playing the game or withold online play to used game buyers like EA's planning for sports games, I see nothing wrong.

 Every time I see stuff like this, I wonder if they have been hiring MBAs that drank their way through economics....