First of all "WTF" is not news article lingo. Act more professional.



Secondly, I can see exactly why they "want" to do this. It won't happen, but I know why they want to do it. It won't happen, as there are very poor people who can't afford the new games and have to (or choose to) pirate or or buy them.





Renting and buying used is the exact same as pirating the game; the devs make nothing from all 3.



However some games are soo crappy, or really short, that renting is the only logical option.



What they should be doing is making their own Online store where you can rent the game for a week directly from the Devs by downloading it to your system (Even LIVE and PSN have the ability already).



But then you have those poor people again with basic DSL who would take 6 days to download 6-12 GB.





You can't please everyone. But making the boss unlockable my be good for the devs, bad for the gamers.

"WTF. Seriously."

That's exactly what I thought.



You're right, it may not be "news article lingo", but that's coming straight from the guts, and it perfectly expresses the feelings of most of the people who will read this article.



Second, I'm sorry to say that, but you're completely wrong when you say that "Renting and buying used" games is the same as pirating. When you buy a game, it becomes OWN PROPERTY. You're free to sell it when you don't want to use it any more. Just like a damn car. Are you gonna tell us that selling used cars should be forbidden? This just doesn't make sense, seriously.



Besides, game publishers/developpers who think like that and do that kind of things (for example : Electronic Arts and their famous DRM's in Spore...) only end up shooting themselves in the foot : players with at least half a brain will be pissed off and will look down on that company from that day on.



Honestly, I don't like what the video game industry is becoming. Loads of cheap to make, sold at full price remakes of old games, downloadable content designed to make players pay and pay again, and now this utter bull*****?



Where are they going? What will their next idea be to milk more money from players? Oh wait, I have an idea ! Make all games "pay to play"! Every time you start playing a game, 1$ or 2$ is automatically deducted from your bank account. Game over? Don't worry, you can resume playing for 1$! And when your bank account is dry, you get a nice "INSERT COINS" message. Yay, arcade at home! -_-

"We don't make any money when someone rents it, and we don't make any money when someone buys it used"



Correct me if I'm wrong, but the person who trades it in initially had to _buy_ it somewhere - same goes for the rental stores. If there is not rental/after use trade because of this kind of crap I could easily see them _losing_ sales and not just on the aspect of "people know about the scam"



c'mon, how many of you haven't gone into a rental or used place and seen 5+ copies of some junk game no one wants anyway?

With every new generation, consoles & games get more and more expensive and these billion dollar companies can't get enough, it's just about €€€ ...

Next time I'll buy the console where you can play pirated games on and a 2 TB HDD ...

Nobody would buy a game where you pay contless times to finish it. It's like those collectors stuff where you buy the 1st pieces of something to asssemble for 1.99$, but you need like 40 of those to finish the thing, and the price is always going up (to 6$ and more per piece), at the end, you paid 300$ for this is thing you though was "cheap", for only 1.99$ for the 1st part, wow!...

Thank you for bringing up this point. I also WILL pirate the game if I have to pay extra for an used game.



Besides, this whole thing is unconstitutiona l.

Very disappointed with the end boss on Gears 2. Easily one of the worst ever



Shoot a big bad guy with the hammer of dawn. Gee I've only done that say, 100 times over the course of Gears 1 and 2... Boring

Sorry this one...



http://www.giantbomb.com/news/new-game-incentives-make-em-matter/488/

here here m8. yes maybe second hand games should have a percentage go to the devs especially when GAME plc pay peanuts for a SH game and whack it out 2 pounds cheaper than a brand new copy. why dont devs break Game plc's extortionate back, for revenue, not us gamers. the only second hand games that are cheap in the uk are old or crap i recently saw ut3 second hand for £27.99 in gamestationn while new was £34 it's the game shops ripping everyone off, including the devs go after them cuz dlc endings will just make me feel ripped off by everyone. the devs and the retailer. then i'll just stop buying games altogether.

dvd r + mod + why should i let u rip me off. when we the people can actually rip you off and on mass could close down your software houses. capeche or caput which war do the devs wanna fight. pirates are ruthless dont make me become your enemy kai xlink and modded console and who needs your online services too. dont be greedy on us gamers, or you might just lose the war against the pirates as more of us turn our backs on main street for a cosy walk up a dark but fun alley. nuff said.

"this whole thing is unconstitutiona l"



Oh really? Care to back that up?

A sizable percentage of all video game sales are to rental companies be it either Gamefly, Blockbuster, or Hollywood Video. I bet Gamefly bought at least ten thousand copies of Gears of War 2 and to say that they dont make any money off of rentals is bulls***. Most games really are not worth buying because the majority of games that come out are poorly done. Even most of the ones that are good are only worth beating once so why waste $60 on only 10 to 12 hours of entertainment when you can rent the game for less than $10? I usually only buy games when they have good multiplayer.