SHOCKING NEWS: Ubisoft to follow suit!
"Ubisoft may attempt to thwart used game sales by offering additional content to buyers of new copies of its games starting next year.
During the company's financial call this morning, Chief Financial Officer Alain Martinez said Ubisoft is looking closely at Electronic Arts' current business model, where buyers of used games must pay $10 to gain access to certain gameplay features and content that's normally free if purchased new.
"Most of the games we will release next year will have downloadable content available from the start," said Martinez. "We are looking very carefully at what is being done by EA regarding what we call the '10 dollar solution,' and we will probably follow that line at sometime in the future." "
http://uk.ps3.ign.com/articles/109/1090839p1.html
And so it begins...
EDIT: At least they're not masking it as "improving the gamers' experience by offering them premium online content" or "providing better content through recovering the additional online cost". They're straight up saying "hey, used game sales suck for us, we want money, and this is how we're gonna get it!"
"Ubisoft may attempt to thwart used game sales by offering additional content to buyers of new copies of its games starting next year.
During the company's financial call this morning, Chief Financial Officer Alain Martinez said Ubisoft is looking closely at Electronic Arts' current business model, where buyers of used games must pay $10 to gain access to certain gameplay features and content that's normally free if purchased new.
"Most of the games we will release next year will have downloadable content available from the start," said Martinez. "We are looking very carefully at what is being done by EA regarding what we call the '10 dollar solution,' and we will probably follow that line at sometime in the future." "
http://uk.ps3.ign.com/articles/109/1090839p1.html
And so it begins...
EDIT: At least they're not masking it as "improving the gamers' experience by offering them premium online content" or "providing better content through recovering the additional online cost". They're straight up saying "hey, used game sales suck for us, we want money, and this is how we're gonna get it!"