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 ... : 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 losses from used sales. And I reiterate that I wholly endorse the idea of a developer getting more money for their game when vultures like Gamestop go and resell it for near-new prices. What my initial gripe was is how publishers are all making their own online passes and the inevitability of a bunch of exclusives ending up on those platforms and requiring 10 subscriptions to these stupid things.

        Jul 15, 2011 2:58pm PDT
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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