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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land The game’s street date isn’t until Tuesday, but someone already has the Xbox 360 version and uploaded this video, found by Pasta Padre, in which the Xbox Live menu is greyed out and displays an advisory that a code is needed to access online features. The code’s free in every new retail copy of the game, or may be purchased through the Xbox Live Marketplace, or PlayStation Network for PS3 version owners.
Strong users of rental services and resale or trade-in options, sports gamers justifiably feel blindsided by EA Sports’ new “Online Pass”, which requires a ton of once-standard game content to be activated by a one-use code.
So yesterday saw a huge row over the issue of used game sales, specifically one writer’s now-disowned call for them to be regulated heavily in favour of the publishers. Victor Godinez of the Dallas Morning News wrote to me to share some details of an interview he had Thursday with Dan DeMatteo, the chief executive officer of GameStop, in hopes they can better inform this discussion.
