Rumor: Warner Bros. joining 'online pass' camp with Mortal Kombat

Well, I'm gettin the game Day 1 (new) anyway so this wont matter to me.

Next topic...

If true, count me out.

I'm, literally, not playing this game.

Something about not mentioning the pass at all on the packaging seems really shady to me.

Uhhhhnnnnnn.

Doesn't bother me. I always buy my games new. Gamestop doesn't deserve anymore of my money because of all the pre-order BS, This is a day one purchase for me anyway

They gotta at least slap that on the packaging or something.

I'm not sure where exactly consumer rights start, but I'm certain its before this.

I hold absolutely nothing against a company for using online passes with their products. When you buy a game used, the developer doesn't see a dime, so why shouldn't they discourage used sales? They made the game, so they deserve to be paid for it. I'd much rather my money go toward the developer of a game then the piece of shit company known as Gamestop. The only reason I call them that is because they might offer, for example, $6 for a game and then turn around and resell it for $30. While that's a good business strategy, it certainly isn't good for anyone but that business.

I can probably live with the online pass thing in theory. The problem is that these companies screw it up. Fifa, NHL, and Madden all had issues with people's online passes not working.

If you're going to do something that doesn't benefit consumers, you'd better make damn sure that it actually works. People can live with some cool feature breaking their game. They can't live with some horrible feature that is already working against them breaking it.

If I have to buy the game new to play online, fine, whatever. But I'd better not get home with the game and not be able to log in at all because their "authentication servers are down" or some other nonsense like that.

The game was going to be at the least a rental and possibly a purchase and how would I know if I wanted to buy it if I can't play the game's biggest feature?

Here we go with this sh*t again...

I have no issue with the ten dollar thing, honestly. Companies make no money off used games, and this lets them get some more of it back.

That said...

Not posting it on the package is bullshit and they will be opening themselves up to all sorts of issues. ESPECIALLY if the box mentions the game has multi-player but doesn't mention you don't get it just for owning the disk. That could be construed as everything from false advertising to breach of contract.

This won't matter to me, as I'm Australian, and apparently we're all dribbling babies who need Customs to make sure we don't get into things like the poison cupboard or games with a bit of blood.

That sounds fair to me.

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Can't blame a company for wanting to make $$$ off their product. If I owned a business I'd try to figure out a way to get customers to buy my product from me also.

If you thought this wouldn't become a trend then you are highly mistaken. The real question is whether Activision will adopt it sooner or later

This is 100% fair i would agree, but my circumstances have changed for the worse and i cant buy MK on release day :( (along with Portal2 - Cry)

so the plan was, seeing as my brother is buying one on the day now, ill just borrow his copy cause he was only buying it to play me online anyways.

but he isnt going to let me use his code...soooo, *tears go here*

Someone give me a digital hug.

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Was looking forward to this game. Unfortunately I cannot support these kinds of practices. They just lost a customer.