Doesn't anyone else see what THQ did here? they made resale worthless, with the "battle code". No one is gonna go thought all the trouble just to buy used, THQ wanted to make sure people bought new. I'm sure THQ will lock this thread very soon but tell everyone you know, DO NOT BUY THIS GAME! Its a ponzi scheme! They don't care if we like it or not. Playing the same maps over and over. The game is garbage, flame me if you want but if we petition this maybe some of us can hold THQ accountable. Many retailers are already docking the price 20 dollars, I don't know about you but I'm not a huge fan of buying it YESTERDAY! and having it 20 bucks less today... Please spread the word. Copy Paste this everywhere you can.
Valve does the same thing. They sell you a non-transferrable license to the game. And Valve's success at this is why other devs are going to go with similar examples. No, they wont. THQ doesn't work here. This is a Subaru owner site. We talk about cars. Hey, look at the big people words you learned on the TV. Now, go find out what a ponzi scheme is and tell me if it even remotely applies to a videogame developer making games so you can't resell them. Yeah, because it makes good business sense. You mean like Call of Duty? Hell, recently I believe they repackaged some maps from previous iterations of their game, and threw in some maps that didn't get picked for the final product, and then sold them to you for 15 freakin' dollars! I bet there's tons of Resale value for COD games since they release a new one every 6-9 months. Also, isn't Homefront that dumbass game I've been seeing that tries to convince me that a 3rd world hell hole full of starving Koreans armed with 1940-50's Russian hand me down war toys somehow zerg rushes the united states from the west in their tin-can navy boats and takes over the place? That scenario is so far fetched. No, because it was written by a clueless 12 year old. Go be butthurt somewhere else.
A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to separate investors, not from any actual profit earned by the organization, but from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors. The Ponzi scheme usually entices new investors by offering returns other investments cannot guarantee, in the form of short-term returns that are either abnormally high or unusually consistent. The perpetuation of the returns that a Ponzi scheme advertises and pays requires an ever-increasing flow of money from investors to keep the scheme going. There ya go, straight from the wikipedia page. Go read a ****ing book, retard. Maybe you need to spend less time playing stupid video games and spend that time figuring out how the world around you works.
