Ubisoft announces online pass, dubbed 'Uplay Passport'

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• Ugly Passport : Modulus
• uPlay aka New for of DRM : Dragzeela
• lol : deathofrats
• So long as they have their whole UPlay thing Ubisoft is a non-entity for me. They might as well not exist... : Kristian Joensen
• so, what some console games have been doing lately already? : RikiTiki2
• Ukissmyass : jonin
• God dammit, EA. I fucking knew it. >:( : Ebu
• Just for this I am buying your SP games used. (which is basically almost everything I play) HA! : Thund3rball
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  asian accent: uPay.. uPay now! : loke662
  • uPray? : SlingBlaze
• Sounds fine to me, especially if it is similar to what EA has been doing. : Evil Benius
• alright, cool. : Hemtroll
• so is this why I have to log into ubi, after being logged in via steam, to play conviction? >:( : Downforce
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  I really hate the direction video game publishing is going :( : Entity
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    They just don't want to get wrecked by used sales anymore. : Lucy Labia
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      Seems like games are still finding ways to be successful and profitable today without this measure. : silent prophet
      • sure but #1 It is a business. #2 Why let another company make so much money off you. I mean it's not l... : Lucy Labia
    • I get that, and even endorse the idea of free 0-day DLC for new purchasers, $10-$15 for used buyers. But ... : Entity
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      Used games have been a part of the industry for decades. I don't see how they suddenly started wrecking ... : Topsiderover
      • They're just grasping at whatever they can. They haven't learned that rentals increase sales (see VHS/DVD... : LoioshDwaggie
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        http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/02/gamestopchart2.jpg : spiderfill
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          What I see in that chart is new software keeping pace pretty well over the last decade. The price hike t... : Topsiderover
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            what you should see is a big yellow bar getting really big : spiderfill
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              as a percentage of sales though, it hasn't changed all that much. : Topsiderover
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                Also what you don't see is the cost of making games going up. : Lucy Labia
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                  As has the price and market pool, your point? : Topsiderover
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                    I guess the point is they are putting in codes so they can make money off used game sales and you and gam... : Lucy Labia
                    • I don't give a shit about gamestop, but I do take an issue with selling a game that is only "complete" wh... : Topsiderover
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        Used games market didn't used to be this big, it's like, almost half or more than half of the profits at Gamestop. Also games didn't used to cost more than 50 million dollars. The budgets are massive now, the team sizes are huge, the companies are under more pressure to sell more copies to recoup the larger than 1995 development costs.
        
        Not to mention just WHY would you not do this if you were a developer? Why would you not try and get a slice of the used game market if you know your game is being bought and sold over and over on the used game market? I mean should the developer feel like they owe gamestop the ability to buy and sell used as much as they want and to encourage everyone walking in through the door to put down that new copy and buy used even after you spent the money on building and marketing the game to get the customer into the gamestop door to pick up a new copy of the game and then be suggested by the gamestop employee to save $5 or less on a used copy? Does a game developer owe gamestop the ability to do this?

        Jul 15, 2011 2:41pm PDT
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        Used games market didn't used to be this big, it's like, almost half or more than half of the profits at ... : Lucy Labia
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          Oh I know exactly why they're doing it. I'm just a bit miffed that it's the only media that seems to get... : Topsiderover
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            The music industry doesn't really deal with it because people who are cheap just buy the single song for ... : Lucy Labia
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              That tells me game developers are charging too much. It is too bad only Valve and the indies are learning : LoioshDwaggie
              • All I have to say to this; is you have no idea what your talking about. Read about it some time. : alllivestaken
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              lol, music has all their shit stolen anyways, so fuck them. Movies only need cameramen (not $100's of mi... : Topsiderover
              • Movies need more than cameramen. And you can keep your right to resell the game, or not buy it at all. ... : Lucy Labia
            • part of the reason for that is because no other media has a nationwide chain of stores every few miles ba... : Proven28
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        It didn't suddenly start wrecking companies; the internet made it possible for the developers to recoup l... : Entity
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          Why is Gamestop the vulture again? Their pricing does suck, but that's the consumer's problem. Would yo... : Topsiderover
          • You know what? Gamestop is going to do what they want. Customers are going to do what they want. Game ... : Lucy Labia
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      So they put up more hoops for first buyers to play - instead of enabling their own resale channel and tak... : Lukiopimp
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        Well then speak with your dollars and don't buy anymore games that include codes in the box. : Lucy Labia
        • Now that's an opinion I can get behind. : Topsiderover
        • or buy them used from gamefly : X-GOUKI
        • Oh I'm doing that as often as possible, sometimes its hurting me though :-( : Lukiopimp
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      Did you ever think that a part of initial new sales might be the fact that a person knows that he can res... : Fpsnut
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        You can still resell the game. No one is taking away used sales. What are you even talking about? If i... : Lucy Labia
        • I've declined to register codes before so that I could sell a "like new" used game. : Topsiderover
        • You can resell the game without code, true, but most places will either not buy a game off you that uses ... : Fpsnut
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  So let me get this straight. If someone buys a used game, they can't play any multiplayer portion of it ... : Edges
  • Correct. Same thing with a lot of THQ, EA, and I think activision is jumping on this now with some games. : sigpro
  • usually you get a couple days of free online time before you have to buy the pass which i assume is for r... : dantastic
• I use Gamefly to obtain my games. I try them out, and if I like them, I buy them from GF. Most of the g... : MrPife
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  similar to PC gaming going all CD keys to play online like 20 years ago. even with steam it's not like y... : dantastic
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    they didn't have to because the whole reason we had cdkeys for pc games was to combat piracy, not selli... : X-GOUKI
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      combats both in one swoop either way. : dantastic
      • and if you don't think the publishers are worried about people copying their console discs, you're naive.... : dantastic
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  I see multiplayer games dieing out very quickly in the future... and thats exactly what they want so they... : spammehardo
  • If you think the servers cost them so much money or even a fraction of what development does, then you ne... : Curike