EcKoxSoldier they never lose money there billionaire company greedy is all I have to say.

i totally agree ecko..

they should only do this for pc and psn players as xbox players already have to pay.

they never lose money there billionaire company greedy is all I have to say.

online passes are **** stupid :@

STRIKER I think this will help in the long run. COD is talking about charging players for an online service. BF3 will not cost anything if you buy it new, it will only cost a one time fee if you buy it used. Most likely for the free updates like the VIP pass for BFBC2

COD's premium online service will be a choice, it won't mean if you don't buy it you can't play online, it's more like R*'s pass for L.A Noire, in which you can get dlc for a discount.

EA this will be a bad move if it goes ahead, you certainly won't make any friends.

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3OH3 I'm upset to see how greedy these companies are beginning to be. The argument that they "have to make space for you" is misleading. Yes sure your character file is saved to a server but it's not going to be that big of a file. So what about actually playing the game? Surely that means that they have to make room for you also since youre on their server... Wrong. Guess what happens when people buy a game used EA? It means that someone no longer wanted to play it and sold it. So essentially that person is just replacing another player on the server so nothing is really changed all that much. If they really want money that bad then just place an add in the game. Yeah sure it may be a little annoying looking at it but armrest everyone could play...

Imagine if I went over to a friends house with my copy of BF3 and we were going to play it. Yeah we'd have fun except we can't because my friend doesn't have an online pass to play the game. Now I could just recover my account with the online pass except my profile contains a higher amount of gamer score than the average user (I'm sure we can all relate and how it takes us a while to recover). So now it is going to take me 15-20 minutes to recover my account so maybe instead of doing that we just decide to play some Modern Warfare: 3...

^^^ that is just one example of how an online pass could actually reduce sales instead of increasing them. Maybe my friend would have seen how good the game is and gone out to buy it for himself the next day. But because of the online pass he was never given the opportunity.

So..... if you couldn't tell, I am completely against the online pass. Buying used games won't cost all that much more money so deal with it... And if your concerned that much then just lower your money that you spend on advertising. I'm sure all of us know that the game is coming out in Novemeber and will be a great game. But sadly we all know that MW3 and BF3 are going to get into an advertising war as the two games release dates approach spending millions of more dollars than need to be spent and could have been used to pay for their server...

Excatly what I was thinking mate... You sir, have completely proven there theorem wrong. And their for they are just plain greedy.

3OH3 I'm upset to see how greedy these companies are beginning to be. The argument that they "have to make space for you" is misleading. Yes sure your character file is saved to a server but it's not going to be that big of a file. So what about actually playing the game? Surely that means that they have to make room for you also since youre on their server... Wrong. Guess what happens when people buy a game used EA? It means that someone no longer wanted to play it and sold it. So essentially that person is just replacing another player on the server so nothing is really changed all that much. If they really want money that bad then just place an add in the game. Yeah sure it may be a little annoying looking at it but armrest everyone could play...

Imagine if I went over to a friends house with my copy of BF3 and we were going to play it. Yeah we'd have fun except we can't because my friend doesn't have an online pass to play the game. Now I could just recover my account with the online pass except my profile contains a higher amount of gamer score than the average user (I'm sure we can all relate and how it takes us a while to recover). So now it is going to take me 15-20 minutes to recover my account so maybe instead of doing that we just decide to play some Modern Warfare: 3...

^^^ that is just one example of how an online pass could actually reduce sales instead of increasing them. Maybe my friend would have seen how good the game is and gone out to buy it for himself the next day. But because of the online pass he was never given the opportunity.

So..... if you couldn't tell, I am completely against the online pass. Buying used games won't cost all that much more money so deal with it... And if your concerned that much then just lower your money that you spend on advertising. I'm sure all of us know that the game is coming out in Novemeber and will be a great game. But sadly we all know that MW3 and BF3 are going to get into an advertising war as the two games release dates approach spending millions of more dollars than need to be spent and could have been used to pay for their server...

Excatly what I was thinking mate... You sir, have completely proven there theorem wrong. And their for they are just plain greedy.

I hate online passes, I bought Dead Space 2 from GameStop and it didn't come with the code so I'm stuck playing campaign. :

I'm upset to see how greedy these companies are beginning to be. The argument that they "have to make space for you" is misleading. Yes sure your character file is saved to a server but it's not going to be that big of a file. So what about actually playing the game? Surely that means that they have to make room for you also since youre on their server... Wrong. Guess what happens when people buy a game used EA? It means that someone no longer wanted to play it and sold it. So essentially that person is just replacing another player on the server so nothing is really changed all that much. If they really want money that bad then just place an add in the game. Yeah sure it may be a little annoying looking at it but armrest everyone could play...

Imagine if I went over to a friends house with my copy of BF3 and we were going to play it. Yeah we'd have fun except we can't because my friend doesn't have an online pass to play the game. Now I could just recover my account with the online pass except my profile contains a higher amount of gamer score than the average user (I'm sure we can all relate and how it takes us a while to recover). So now it is going to take me 15-20 minutes to recover my account so maybe instead of doing that we just decide to play some Modern Warfare: 3...

^^^ that is just one example of how an online pass could actually reduce sales instead of increasing them. Maybe my friend would have seen how good the game is and gone out to buy it for himself the next day. But because of the online pass he was never given the opportunity.

So..... if you couldn't tell, I am completely against the online pass. Buying used games won't cost all that much more money so deal with it... And if your concerned that much then just lower your money that you spend on advertising. I'm sure all of us know that the game is coming out in Novemeber and will be a great game. But sadly we all know that MW3 and BF3 are going to get into an advertising war as the two games release dates approach spending millions of more dollars than need to be spent and could have been used to pay for their server...

CastleCrashers

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gokuss2 gamestop suckz and so does battlefield! its about gears and cod! and uncharted 3!

no... its about gears, then cod, then halo, then bf.

Yup. STFU :P

correction its bf, halo, gears, CoD4, hello kitty online adventure Extreme Island Edition, ****, yeti ****, then the rest of CoD. but gamestop does suck they wanted me to give them a brand new wii for $20 **** gamestop

LOL, yeah Hello Kitty rocks! JK. I don't care if there will be an online pass because I have it preordered so I will be getting it new straight away. Also can anyone tell me what the Back To Karkaland thing that you get with the pre-order is please?