Comments on: Sony Introduces Anti-Piracy “Online Entitlement Feature” With SOCOM: Fireteam Bravo 3

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:10:05 +0000

For the PSP, this obviously gets at the rampant piracy, and also the tendency for many folks to be hesitant of paying full price for what they view as a fairly mediocre library of games on the PSP (I know we’ve discussed that, but the perception is there) … so I know loads who depend on eBay / used / trade sites for the PSP games. Sony gets *none* of any of that stuff.

As for the other things like Dragon Age / Mass Effect / Bad Company … I really don’t mind that as a means of ‘profit preservation’ … I’d rather that than they raise prices!

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:03:38 +0000

I fear we’re heading towards an era where this is going to be prevalent in all games on all platform. We’re already seeing EA do it more and more with their Project 10 Dollar thing (I’m hearing BF: Bad Company 2 is going to have a DLC portal just like ME2’s Cerberus Network). It probably won’t be too long before every game will require some type of activation tying it to your system/account.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:08:05 +0000

Holy Crap! You’re right – I didn’t notice it! You KNOW this is the sort of thing that really gets me upset, and since I downloaded through PSN and already have active accounts for all of the online stuff I never even noticed a thing.

Wow … just wow …