Buy an EA Sports game second-hand, pay for online.

[Kane Knight]

Originally Posted by Kalyx triaD I made my argument

nothing of substance.

Just more "big business = evil" rhetoric

False. Come on, I'd expect you to at least not make up my argument.

Where was this bravado when the same EA shut down their NFL competitors?

I don't think you meant "bravado."

Oh yeah, you don't play football games so "I got mine, fuck you."

Again, false.

I don't play football games so it slipped under my radar, yes. to claim any more, to claim, for example, "I got mine, so fuck you" is to misrepresent.

Of course, you're full of that, aren't you?

I've played watchdog before while you people either told me to calm the fuck down or played my thought off as ridiculous.

Examples? Were "us people" actually involved? Like say, me? BDC?

Now I'm the corporate mouthpiece. Funny how the switch occurs in a case where people are coerced into buying games new.

Actually, coercion seems to be a big thing there. Notice how I didn't complain about Rock Band 2 or the Export codes for the Guitar Hero series or Mass Effect 2--all games I've purchased, by the way.

I'm betting you didn't mean to use the word coerce. However, it's gone from incentive to coersion, and there's the problem. As it was, there was no problem. And then the terms changed.

I seem to recall mass bitching over a certain thread covering game piracy. Hmmm....................

Now you're trying to artificially correlate the two.

Fact: The average price-cut for games are 5$ - 10$. EA aims to get that money one way or another. Fact: You can just wait for the price to drop again in the future, whereas the 'DLC' may not drop, you could subtract the price via time. Fact: Because of fact two, gamers still have a choice in the matter. It's not terribly convenient, but nobody is forcing you.

Pretty weak "facts." Those arguments don't hold much water in favor of whether or not this is right. They do sound like specious reasoning from a corporate apologist though, in the same post you get offended by such a claim.

These events don't hold a candle to past actions by EA, Activision, Microsoft, Ubisoft, fucking SONY

Once again, arguing others have done worse doesn't make this correct.

Don't bitch because you have to pony up or wait.

I'm not, you moron. I've clearly demonstrated it doesn't affect me. You've even cited that yourself. No wonder you spazzed out and are saying "Good-Bye." Your whole argument hinges on things you know I'm not saying.