Report: WB Moving Towards 'Online Pass Code' Scheme

They're charging an extra 800 MS points to access the MS servers that host all online Xbox services that people already pay $60 a year to access, just to play one particular game on it? All because they think they're special in the sense that they shouldn't have to compete with a second hand market like every other business that produces a product? Get real. They have been saying over and over and over, ad nauseam, that their games are a "product" as opposed to a service. Now they get indignant about it because people are buying second hand like any other product. Pathetic. They don't have the right to supress the right of first sale on anyone just because they feel like they should get money every time the game changes hands. Maybe electronics manufacturers should get upset at pawn shops and try to supress them from selling their products too?

"You can buy this MP3 player from the pawn shop, but you'll have to pay another $20 to download music on to it! Having the ability to use all functions of the product is just our way to reward our real customers. (It has nothing to do with trying to screw over those that don't buy it from us)"

-Greevar

So if I buy the used game, I'll be punished by actually HAVING to add money to my PSN wallet and spend it on getting to play online if I choose instead of spending it on DLC or other games.