hailthefish

The answer for EA is simple. State that they're moving all the online features into paid services, and that people who purchase the game new get a free pass, just like how XBox Live Gold is a paid service but frequently free months are given away with various games.

As a gamer, I really don't have any problem with EA wanting extra cash for the online portion. If I buy a game for 30 bucks used rather than 60 bucks new, I can afford to spend something more to support the developers and the servers. But only if it means that they follow that route INSTEAD of the DRM-of-death route. I don't want to have to sell my soul and firstborn child to Ubisoft to install the game in the first place and then have them demand that I pay them more for the privilege of getting spat on.

Maybe the fact they never anticipated it to be this popular explains why there's been so many problems with the multiplayer servers.

Rollercoaster Tycoon: The Movie. Tagline: A vortex of suckfail, coming to a theatre near you!

If they'd put 0.01 in the box, the end recipients still wouldn't have gotten anything (up to like 33 cents, paypal takes the whole thing in fees), but they still would have been able to download it, and it would have been one of those "thought that counts" situations. But to go torrent it is just.. it's MORE effort.

The sick thing is, the bundle was name-your-own-price.

Mordin or Garrus.

Mordin's songs and general behavior are just hilarious.

Garrus is a great grumpy badass, though.