Very Clever EA, sure fire way to make £££

You make a poor game with a load of bugs, with a big fanbase and introduce the online pass. Knowing eventually players will soon get fed up and trade the game in for something different, then you wait for the next person to buy it from the bargain bucket, then charge them for the online pass, for that player to eventually see how poor the game is and trade it in, for the next unsuspecting individual, whilst in the mean time you sit back and count the £££. Obviously you've sussed that making a poor game with lots of bugs will reap in more money than a good game with few bugs.
Genius the lot of you.|||Go away. If you don't know how things work don't comment on it.|||i mut admit the online pass thing stinks of a cheap ploy to make more money, disguised as an anit-piracy measure.|||

i mut admit the online pass thing stinks of a cheap ploy to make more money, disguised as an anit-piracy measure.

You need to look more into it and once you do you realise it is a genius move. EA make the game, a lot of cost are spend during the year. You buy the game for lets say a second hand, EA does not get a penny for the game they actually made. For example you made a video and people keep using it without you actually getting a penny out of it, how would you feel?
Also I'm happy that those pirates at least have to spend some money the tacky cheap (you know what).|||

i mut admit the online pass thing stinks of a cheap ploy to make more money, disguised as an anit-piracy measure.

You need to look more into it and once you do you realise it is a genius move. EA make the game, a lot of cost are spend during the year. You buy the game for lets say a second hand, EA does not get a penny for the game they actually made. For example you made a video and people keep using it without you actually getting a penny out of it, how would you feel?
Also I'm happy that those pirates at least have to spend some money the tacky cheap (you know what).

thats a stupid arguement, EA make plenty of profit from every game they sell, the RRP is £50, what do you think the production cost is? how many millions of profit do you think EA have made already from FIFA 11, including all the costs of production?
your arguement basically states that anything that is sold on, should always have a % of the sale going bac kto the original manufacturer.
if you buy a car from Ford for £10,000 and then sell it on a few years later for £5,000 would you expect ford to recieve a cut fo the resale price, ontop of the £10,000 you already paid??
or how about if you buy a new house built by a building company, and then sell it on years later, do the original building company deserve a cut?
thats philosphy simply feeds corporate greed and hurts the consumer.||||||We already pay for XBOX LIVE, for EA to charge after the fact is a cheapo way to get cash. With that said, if EA could make a game that wasn't so flawed (a few flaws I understand, but seriously CM again is a joke), I wouldn't see anything wrong for buying a game used and paying a bit extra for the online. Still waiting for a patch so I can hope to have a CM that actually includes players growing (or at least showing up right on the squad management screen).