Topic: "Giving up our rights to own the games we purchase"

[S-U-P-E-R]

Pale, do you play kickball with your NES systems or what? I'm pretty sure the NES has been shown time and time again to be the single mostly physically tough console ever made. Mine still works. Pretty much anyone's will with a proper tuneup, or they can go buy a Neofami or whatever. Making a comparison of your NES games to a limited license is retarded.

As far as the fine print on DLC, as long as I feel like I'm getting my money's worth...

[RABicle]

Super I'm pretty sure the batteries on my SNES carts, let alone NES, are dying.

[S-U-P-E-R]

The games will still work without the batteries. (Except for one NES one that nobody owns)

[Flames_of_chaos]

The games will still work without the batteries. (Except for one NES one that nobody owns)

Yeah it will just screw up your saves, but you can just replace the batteries anyways you just need to buy the tool to open up the cart and the replacement battery.

[Pale]

I guess I should define "works"

I'm sure one of mine would play a game eventually... but I can only take so many blinking gray screens before I go crazy.

[KDR_11k]

You can get a famiclone and all your old games work, the problem with DRM is that when the activation servers go down (don't give me any "that won't happen" bullshit, Walmart already demonstrated it!) you cannot recover the games legally.

[user0x7D]

Planned obsolescence needs to be made illegal. Not that that would stop companies from doing it anyway. To be honest, nothing seems to stop companies from doing whatever the hell they want whether it's legal or not.

The whole EULA thing is a scam that software companies came up with years ago. According to the law you have to agree to the contract at the time of purchase, not the time of installation. How many times have you been asked to agree to an EULA when you go to the cash register to purchase a piece of software or game? Never? Well then when you're forced to agree to it later, the software company is breaking the law. They're not allowed to throw new terms and conditions at you after the point of purchase. If you didn't agree to it then, you don't have to agree to it later.

However... who here has the money to fight a protracted battle in court over it? So really the only reason it's 'legal', and I use that term extremely loosely, is because no one has the power or money to get it thrown out in court. More or less it's extortion through manipulation of the legal system. And until the law changes all EULA contracts that you agree to after the point of purchase are illegal no matter what MicroScam or whoever else might tell you.

To be honest I read somewhere that upwards of 90%+ of all contracts are illegal in some way or other, it's just that the people getting screwed by them are usually unable to fight them in court due to insufficient knowledge or simply being out powered.

[Ymeegod]

Actually I notice Blockbuster generally beats Gamestop's prices both with buying and selling used games.  Before the merger, EB games used to be great but now they're Gamestop and the prices is  laughable and the trade-in value an utter joke.  I don't bother with them anymore.