Sony to Charge $20 to Used SOCOM PSP Buyers

[smlong]

How is this news? Other game manufacturers already do crap like this. I bought a used copy of NBA Live 09. You can't use the 'special' features without paying, whereas otherwise you get them free for a ~ year when you register the game the first time. I paid to import my GH Smash Hits songs into GH5. The product code is only valid one time, though. So, if I ever sell my GH Smash Hits disc to someone, they would not be able to import those tracks into GH5.

The charges for add-ons, DLC, and other CRAP is no different. It's all about milking the custom as much as possible.

 

[TheDuke]

I hate how the gaming industry tries to vilify the used game market. Car manufacturers, books and the movie industry seems to have gotten along fine for years with the used and rental services around.

 

[Startingline13]

For those of you who are trying to justify buying a used to to buying a used product and first right of sale, they are two completely different things. The fact of the matter is:

You can easily copy, and reproduce any form of data (Ex. a game)

You cannot easily reproduce a car.

 

[wild9]

The games are too expensive - this in my opinion, is not the solution.

 

[rawoysters]

[citation][nom]m-manla[/nom]Not sure if this one was smart Sony. But what if someone don't use their PSP on internet access.[/citation]

Sony doesn't seem to make very many smart decisions lately.

 

[mr_tuel]

Excuse me while I fire up my torrent (download) server.

 

[Guest]

Sony is and has always been dumb. While they have been known to innovate the innovations are lost to time for lack of adoption, DAT as an example. After the PS2 fiasco, 4 of them in a year, absolute garbage, I will not buy another console, or anything else with the Sony logo on it.

I have always looked at Sony's computer products as "apple" light, pretty, shiny, proprietary, expensive.

I still have my walkman from high school and I still have my discman and they both still work, at least some things they made are quality.

 

[Guest]

I hate how they have basically made this game unrentable now too. With the price of games, alot of people rent a game before they buy it to make sure that it is something worth purchasing. With this form of 'piracy protection', renting a game would roughly equate to $25 or more.

 

[ebattleon]

With 8 billion loss lats year they (Sony) have to make the extra cash some how.

 

[nforce4max]

Throw it in the local harbor and think nothing of it. The more they charge the less they will get in the long run.

 

[JonathanDeane]

Honestly if I was gamestop or some other company who dealt with used games I would refuse to carry this game at all. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you lol

If they are worried about pissing off Sony, then just make sure to order very limited quantities and make sure its sales suck so bad that no one would ever think to do some crap like that ever again.

I have no interest in this game and don't even own a PSP, this makes me angry because one day in the future I probably will own one (I like to collect old systems and games) so me "Ohhh cool a nice PSP game for 1$ at a yard sale woot!!!" *goes home to play it* "GGRRRR Sony now you want me to pay another $20 for something I picked up for $1 ????" I can see these becoming somewhat collectible after 99.99% of the ones that do sell end up in land fills.

 

[ordcestus]

Well if Sony doesn't cancel this "idea" then i won't buy any sony products. Completly innapropriate, I might write a letter

 

[hillarymakesmecry]

How do you copy a UMD?

 

[hillarymakesmecry]

How do you copy a UMD?

 

[rhino13]

I can balk at EA doing this, but now Sony too?

 

[theguy82]

For those of you who are trying to justify buying a used to to buying a used product and first right of sale, they are two completely different things. The fact of the matter is:

You can easily copy, and reproduce any form of data (Ex. a game)

You cannot easily reproduce a car.

You are right. You can't easily reproduce a car, but you can easily reproduce a movie.

 

[jwl3]

Nope. Don't own a Playstation or anything made by Sony. I used to think Sony was a great brand about 15 years ago. I quickly realized that their shi t is severely overpriced compared to other manufacturers. I'm a PC gamer and when EA and all the other game makers kill the PC market, I'd rather quit gaming entirely than buy a shi t console.

 

[belardo]

No swearing allowed on these blogs.

Messages maybe deleted for swearing.

Sony and music industry always wanted to make $$$ on the used market... never mind they already made their cut from the sale. Grrrr.

 

[babybeluga]

And so it begins!

 

[jgiron]

Sony now wants to double screw people!