"First I'll do Metal Man, because the Metal Blade is good everywhere!" Erin yes!
I haven't pirated music in years, and I am not averse to buying it for a dollar a track off Google Play. Amazing how reasonable price points and convenience will get paying customers back, huh?
He did the great follow-up shorts too.
That's kind of my take on this... is The Walking Dead big in Japan? Like, when Soul Calibur had Yoda and Darth Vader, that at least made some sense; Star Wars is a big property in Japan. But this feels odd.
Yes, but the difference now is that the artists themselves get almost no money from the transactions. It all goes to the platform and the label.
Well, the obvious answer there is to stop signing with exploitative labels, especially given that they no longer serve a purpose on digital distribution platforms.
How is that different from before again?
I've been waiting for someone to go after a game company over the idea that buying a game only "licenses" you to use it. What kind of license keeps it's details from you until after you've paid the fee to acquire it? What license is freely tradable without some sort of official transfering it?
Well, the whole thing was started by Bill Gates, did M$ really not have to defend it in court already?
And this is the argument Bethesda is pushing in order to prevent ANY sale of it at all.
How does software do warranty? Patches are/should be free anyway...
"All we're saying is if it's a previously owned product, you have to sell it as a previously owned product", Pete Hines told Eurogamer. "You could have opened it up," he went on to explain, "played it for five hours, taken whatever inserts or stuff was in there, put it back in shrink wrap and said, 'Hey this is new.' It's not new - you owned it, you bought it, so just list it as a used title. That's it, that's the end of the argument."
From my link above:
I remember this was a big problem with Shadow Hearts: Covenant back in the day. Turns out part of the first shipment of the disc was full of discs that wouldn't read past a certain point. I went through 6 discs before I found a good one.
If that argument meant fucking ANYTHING, you can't "verify" if anything if you've ever purchased ANYWHERE is "new".
The Bethesda suit alleges that the developer (who also co-developed Fallout Shelter) used pre-release code from Fallout Shelter to build the Westworld game, which is substantiated by the fact that the Westworld had the exact same bugs that Fallout Shelter had from that period in it's development. That's a far cry from what you're implying.
It is most certainly not the end of the argument. When eBayUser1275 advertises a copy of a Bethesda game for sale and calls it "new," this is not a representation on the part of Bethesda, it is a representation on the part of the seller. eBayUser1275 is making the claim that the copy they are selling is new. If it later turns out that this copy has been opened/used/etc., this only reflects on eBayUser1275, not Bethesda, and the proper party for the buyer to contact for resolution is eBayUser1275 or, if eBayUser1275 refuses, for the buyer to go through eBay's dispute resolution process. Bethesda's lawyers have no place in any of this.
Heh, you think that doesn't happen?
I know that Gamestop has (or had) a policy for letting employees check out games if it wasn't the only copy in the store. I'm sure more than one manager just gutted open a new copy of something just so they could try it out before they bought it or instead of buying it.Heh, you think that doesn't happen?
