Saints Row dev: "Xbox 720 used game ban would be fantastic."

[J Tyran]

It's because you cant patch an extortionist killswitch into a car, dumbass.

Of course they could, in developed countries at least. Link the engine management system with a basic mobile network receiver, check the methods of vehicle registration available corporately and then wipe the immobiliser key if the owner appears to change.

Or they could simply continue to build cars with specific tools only available to people that the auto makers approves of and refuse to service them if the owner changes. Lack of service history and being unable to get them repaired by reputable mechanics would make mean people wouldn't buy them used.

Cant needs to be replaced by wont because the car manufacturers are not stupid enough to do it because they know people wouldn't buy them in the first place. The technology to equip a kill switch certainly exists though.

I think you, and everyone else who's quoted my comment, has missed the point.

It's not about "can they make a car with this technology and sell it"

It's that they can't retroactively add it to a car. Car companies cannot mandate that all cars currently in existence be fitted with this technology.

That's why I said "patch". Not "integrate into".

If these rumours are true Microsoft are not "patching it in" either, they are integrating it into a new piece of hardware.

 

[TheDarkestDerp]

According to these guys:

I pirated a game today. I took it from GameStop with my GameStop card, and the publisher saw none of the money. If I do not like the game, I will return it in a few days, and they will make no money, since I will get my money back. If I like the game, I will keep it. The publisher will see no money.

I pirated a book today. I took it from the library with my "library" card, and the publisher saw none of the money. If I do not like the book, I will return it in a few days, and they will make no money. If I like the book, I will it buy it from them, and keep it. The publisher will see no money.

Fan-fucking-tastic reply. Thank you for existing, love.

 

[zombieshark6666]

You seem to have misunderstood my post, the devs already got their cut when the game was first sold...after that..fuck them, really, just fuck them.

I see.

So what you are saying is, it is the STORES that deserve your support for all they do for you.

The devs though, the people who actually make these games, who devote thousands of manhours and millions of dollars into something for your entertainment, no, fuck them. They don't deserve your support.

After all, they aren't the one selling the game to you. Why do they need your money? You're right, fuck them.

It's all about the middleman. Absolutely.

Just to be clear, people like you make me sick.

Man, people like you are gonna fuck up the world so quick.
(not that it needs help or anything)

 

[mirasiel]

You seem to have misunderstood my post, the devs already got their cut when the game was first sold...after that..fuck them, really, just fuck them.

I see.

So what you are saying is, it is the STORES that deserve your support for all they do for you.

The devs though, the people who actually make these games, who devote thousands of manhours and millions of dollars into something for your entertainment, no, fuck them. They don't deserve your support.

After all, they aren't the one selling the game to you. Why do they need your money? You're right, fuck them.

It's all about the middleman. Absolutely.

Just to be clear, people like you make me sick.

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What I am saying is that Devs & publishers do not deserve to be paid twice for the same item, because make no mistake they got paid the FIRST time that game was sold.

If they think they do (and damn if it doesnt seem like a lot of them do), fuck them, fuck them hard.


The second hand market exists, it always has existed and trying to forcibly exterminate it makes them look like nothing more than money grubbing fuckheads to me. If you are unable to make a projected profit based on your budget...TRY LOWERING YOUR FUCKING BUDGET instead of whining to *me* that I *need* to give you more money.