To hell with the potential for 2nd hands sales. I don't care about the fact that you don't mind paying full price for games (as I don't either).

What I do care about is being able to play the game I paid full price for WHEN I want to play it on ANY machine I want to play it on. I reformat my primary HD pretty often and my household has 4 computers between my wife and myself. I have to be very careful of where I install it because if I buy new hardware or format I may have forfeited the right to install the game on further systems.


I can only imagine if a game like Deus Ex had that type of BS on it. I've uninstalled and reinstalled that game at least a dozen times and more than half-a-dozen machines since I bought it so many years ago. It's a great game and to this day I feel like playing it occasionally. What if I just couldn't because I'd been limited to 3 installs? That's horse-crap and you know it.

Whether you care about piracy, 2nd hand marketing, full price or any other BS, you should care that you get to keep using a game you paid for.


If they want to kill piracy, this obviously didn't do it. The game has been pirated even by the honest. I'll probably torrent it just to have a 'full version' to supplement my full price, purchased copy so that if I run into a brick wall with installs I'll still be able to play.

If they want to kill 2nd hand markets they need to find a better way to do it. I have no solutions, but pissing on your primary customers isn't the way to do it.