Posted on 04/07/2013 at 05:36 PM
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I think it's also a generational thing, too.
My guess is that a lot of the people who are most upset about this grew up with the older generations of consoles, where these measures weren't possible and the industry was small enough (and the games cheap enough) to tolerate resales. But now you have kids growing up with online passes, free-to-play, and digital-only games on smartphones and tablets.
As those kids grow up, and the network infrastructure gets better in the big markets for games, will this stuff even be a point of contention anymore? I feel like we're the last generation of gamers that are going to make a big stink about this, online or off. That gives it a depressing sense of inevitability.