Legal Niches

Indie Game Store Owner Anti-Online Pass

By pete_gallagher

While GameStop might be on board with it, the owner of a Columbus, Ohio independent videogame store (Level One Games) is 'completely appalled' at Electronic Arts' Online Pass and claims the introduction of the measure is 'about destroying the buy, sell, trade business.'

EA's initiative will see new games come with one-time use codes for online play. Anyone who purchases a used game that features Online Pass will need to pony up $10 in order to access online features.

The owner outlines his take on how EA's Online Pass will affect his business and consumers, saying 'I have to assume that most businesses, knowing that you're going to have to pay an extra $10 to buy an Online Pass for that game, are going to give less in trade and sell the games for less used. At least that's the way I would do it.'
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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on May 24, 2010 (boomark / email).