118w ago -
Update: Dutch site
PS3Clan.nl has now confirmed that it is indeed possible to share your DC Universe Online PS3 disc with a friend and play the game for free, noting simply that both users will need to pay the subscription fee.
While not as bad as previous
rumors, today LazyGamer.net (linked above) reports that Sony has confirmed DC Universe Online PS3 discs are locked to a single PSN account connected to their first player.
Essentially what this means is when you buy and play DC Universe Online, your PSN account will be automatically tied with that specific PlayStation 3 game disc.
If other PSN accounts try to play the game using that disc, they will be denied. Only you, the first player, will be able to play it.
To quote: "We discovered that DC Universe becomes linked to your account when you activate it, destroying your ability to sell it, trade it or rent it.
The folks at SOE were very quick to respond to our enquiry, and they had the following to say:
"Once the PSN key has been consumed with a disk it cannot be resold/replayed with the second user adding a sub - only the original consumer can use that acct."
We weren't too sure if that meant that a new code could be obtained by a second hand buyer, or if the disc and account were seen as one, so we wrote back and got the simple and straightforward answer that: "Disk and account are one"
So there you have it, confirmed from SOE themselves. Once you have bought DC Universe Online, it will not be usable by anyone other than the original user of the activation key.
So once again, be warned: If you see the game for sale second hand without its original activation key (highly unlikely) or want to sell it off, it doesn't work that way."
No.
Will you be traveling out your home country in the next week?...
More than likely, they already do this for a number of different games.
I personally will not be buying this, but not because I'm boycotting, but because I wasn't impress with the beta right up to release. If I was to buy this at all in the future it would be for PC anyway and they'd need to add a ton more stuff for me to even consider it.
Okay, so it's tied to a unique key in the booklet, and not embedded in the actual game disc. Will they allow a DLC purchase of a unique key for second-hand buyers?
Whether is Phantasy Star, Final Fantasy Online, World of Warcraft or whatever, you do have to pay to play them online and its been that way for YEARS. I honestly haven't been on MMORPG's long having only played Phantasy Star Universe on a console but I understood the deal upon playing.
Before this title's release I've heard from too many people on PSN hoping for it to be free to play online. You can't alway's expect everything to be free and sometimes free doesn't garuntee its always going to be good. You get what you pay for.
Its funny how some players will say a game is trash because it's not free and have never even played a beta of it to know what its like. If this is the first pay to play game on the PS3 whether you want to boycott it or not, don't expect it it to be the last.
moja & semitope & jarvis: read the comment by mikerock98.
This is an MMO and it's standard practice for this type of game to have a unique key. Yes it might be rare for console games to have it but for MMOs it's keeping with industry standards. A boycott won't work for the game, the DC name is too big for a small boycott of a handful of people to make a difference.
I personally will not be buying this, but not because I'm boycotting, but because I wasn't impress with the beta right up to release. If I was to buy this at all in the future it would be for PC anyway and they'd need to add a ton more stuff for me to even consider it.