SavageGrampa

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I agree with your analysis of their grading system, and I can't disagree with using the entire 1-10 scale, but so many of the reviews from EG are so low, they're laughable. I think they're past the point of using the whole scale, and now they are relishing in it. I've played some games, and said, "wow, this is like a 9" and then read a few reviews, and they point out a few flaws that I glanced over, and then I change my opinion of the game. So, further, my question to you is, do you really think it's spot on, or was your view skewed by the editorial staff?

Ok... so eurogamer is staffed entirely of pretentious douchebags, then?

Now there's something we can agree on! Gamestop is terrible.

[Name-calling will lead to a ban. Consider yourself warned.]

I can't continue with this asinine argument any further. I've made my point from the original comment by Schuey, but you continue to step in with your VAST knowledge of project management. Good luck with your sophomore year at Devry.

Also, gross is important in this case, because I can quickly calculate that 10 million games sold = $600 million in gross profit. Out of that, I think EA can probably afford the $5k in storage costs.

Also, games retail for $60, not $6. Re-check your math, idiot.

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Schuey, I get your point, but I honestly can't believe it costs them very much to store that data. I'm going to over-simplify this, but I think my math is right...
Let's say that 1 user profile is 1MB (which it's probably closer to 100kb) and you store 1,048,576 MB on a 1TB hard drive. I can get a 1TB WD hard drive on newegg for under $100. Let's say that they sell 10,000,000 copies of Madden 2010. It costs them $1,000 to store every profile. Hell... let's throw in a RAID setup and it costs them $5000 in storage. I think they're probably ok storing that data for $5k after grossing $600,000,000 from the sale of the game.

Keep in mind that I'm only talking about the data storage, not the server upkeep, etc.

You have also introduced a very simplistic way of looking at the situation. What if the original owner played it 50 hours per week online (which is just a ridiculous amount of time...) and got bored, decided to sell it, and now the new owner is playing 5 hours per week. Wouldn't that be a benefit to EA? Your argument is baseless. The game still has the same number of owners and the used owners shouldn't be penalized for buying a used game.

I'm raising the BS flag on this... if I buy a game, and play online, then sell the game, I can no longer play online. If Billy buys my used game from the gestapo, he can now play online. We're not adding another user to the online server, we're replacing it. BFD.

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