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It looks like sports game monster EA has spoken and it doesn’t like not making any $ on games that are resold as ‘used’. But instead of trying to fight that battle they are going to try to make money in different areas:

“The gaming industry doesn’t make money off of a second-hand sale. And that’s a “critical situation” for publishing giant Electronic Arts, an executive with the company told GamesIndustry.biz. How to fix the problem? Shifting the revenue focus online by adding more online content and tools to games”

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“But EA is smartly not going to take this fight to retailers. That’s a lost cause. The company is better off selling online addons for games, such as new maps, levels and characters.”

From a business standpoint I like their approach, but from a gamer who likes to buy used games I hope this means that they aren’t going to strip down the games and then make you pay for “extras” to the game that would normally come with. I guess we will see soon enough.

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