EA Sports Subcription service coming?

[pilonv1]

Activision beaten to the punch

The line about having downloadable versions of games before they come out in stores, how would that even work?

[pilonv1]

Someone posted these on gaf too








paying for 7 days early access.

[GilloD]

Also, the age of digital distro is upon us. It's not the Saturn-era anymore. When a big publisher liek EA tells brick and mortar to fuck off, that's just the start.

[chronovore]

Anything that lets a publisher keep games from getting churned immediately into the used game mill is arguably good for the industry.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

Sounds shitty but you know what, I don't give a shit about sports games. If some old rube wants to pay $35.99 for a year to get a slight discount on all that sweet tiger woods DLC, that's fine because that money will go to funding some game I actually care about in the end.

Ladies and gentleman this is the future of video games journalism, fair and balanced. 

[Brehvolution]

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

sports games have always been the chaft of the used game scene.  Used game sellers might actually not mind having less of such rapidly depreciating stock on hand.

[chronovore]

sports games have always been the chaft of the used game scene.  Used game sellers might actually not mind having less of such rapidly depreciating stock on hand.

According to that "28 confessions of a GameStop Manager" article, you are correct:

Most trade-ins we ever receive are not recent or desirable games. We take games in awful shape, without original cases, and that are years-old and so saturated that they will never, ever sell. Every gamestop is drowning in used Madden NFL 2001-2007's as we speak. Old sports titles have no resale value, and we offer a small amount for them with the understand that we will probably never make that back on its sale. The point here is, simply, that there is no sense in decrying Gamestop's trade-in values for games that you are unlikely to sell anywhere else.