EA Sports to charge $10 to play used games online
Found on Ars Technica on Monday, 10 May 2010
EA does not like when you buy used games, and it keeps coming up with ways to incent gamers to avoid the used game section at their local retailer.
If you bought it used, you had to pay $10. With its sports games, however, EA is playing hardball: it will cost you an extra $10 if you want to play online with a secondhand game.
Will gamers balk, or shrug their shoulders and pay?
If EA wants to charge for the online gaming, they should simply release the games for free, a move that will instantly make that hated second-hand market vanish. Everything else will just annoy the customer.