What Are You Doing RIGHT NOW? Part ELEVEN: Through the Wormhole...

[Meat-Popsicle]

The funniest part about these "always online" and "no used games" rumors going around is the people that say "Frack the PS4/Xbox 365 Im just gonna go with Steam"

I buy almost all my games used (complete with original online codes) from GameFly, so this change struck me, initially, as rather hostile. And yet, if they wind up using the Steam model of sales [always something on sale, even a few AAA titles, just about every title gets cheaper over time], then I'd probably be on board with it. And that's "sort of" how PSN purchases work, especially with Playstation Plus, right? Though surely the deals on digital titles aren't nearly as broad [number of titles] and deep [% off of original price] in the PSN store vs. on Steam, no? Or am I unfairly comparing the typical week for Playstation Plus with the once-a-year madness of a Steam Blowout Sale (which is the last time I bothered to browse the Steam site)?

It's already very rare that I buy a AAA title right at release, for the full $60, so this strategy really wouldn't affect me much. For those that regularly buy at $60, play obsessively for a week, then sell at $45, it would obviously be a big blow. But can you even do that anymore, given how many games already include a one-use only "online content" code [and all of the popular multiplayer content is online]?

[Marlboro]

Traitorous scum.

I'm the one who switched over

I wish I could check and see if I got a code. It would be funny if I did since I got my PS3 at launch but since getting my 360 I barely used my PS3, and I recently sold it. IM LOYAL!

Check your email

[www1221]

Check your email

Guess I didnt get a code then. Man I really wanted a code because it would have been really funny

[Meat-Popsicle]

The PS2 doesn't look nearly as good when blown up on an HDTV as it does when shown on a CRTV, as was originally intended. I need to move my CRTV into the basement, hook up the PS2, and play my retro games down there [including DDR, which shakes my whole duplex including my neighbor's half when I play on the first floor, and no I am neither heavy nor ungraceful!].

[SuperTigerMario]

Guess I didnt get a code then. Man I really wanted a code because it would have been really funny

You would've given it to me anyways. I know deep down below that black hole you call a heart there is some light.

[www1221]

You would've given it to me anyways. I know deep down below that black hole you call a heart there is some light.

You or Aly. But I dont know if its something you could give away.

[Bront20]

Not a shocker, almost expected from Sony.

And as I've commented many times before, don't understand why BC has become such a huge deal with some of the newer generation systems. It's a nice feature, but don't understand why people act like it's a necessity.

With BC, I would only need 1 device to play all of my current games and new games, and would be able to continue to play my current games well into the life of the next-gen console.

For me, it helped when I got the Wii that it was GC compatible, but it ended up not being a huge issue. However, the volume of stuff I now have for the PS3 means I wanted BC for it from the next gen system. I know the Wii-U backwards compatibility sold me on getting it eventually to replace my launch Wii, if only to make sure I don't lose anything going forward.

[nascargo19]

You or Aly. But I dont know if its something you could give away.

they gave you the code, but it was already in the spot where you enter the code.

you could have gave him the code quite easily.

[Mega-Tallica]

Or one system can just play all the games in its family of consoles. Its like telling the people who want Muse in Rock Band to stop complaining because Guitar Hero has their songs.

Pssh, what the hell did you do when we had the NES, SNES, and N64 and none of them were BC? Nobody complained then because it wasn't an inconvenience.

[Doc_SoCal]

3 hours of conference calls... ENOUGH!!!

Ahem, excuse me.