Games Thirst – Amazing Life
EA’s Peter Moore says his company never, not once, met with Sony or Microsoft urging them to come up with strategies to block the sales of used games, hence killing the secondhand market.
Speaking to Polygon, Peter Moore said that the accusation was “absolutely incorrect”.
Absolutely incorrect. As the guy who is the chief operating officer of Electronic Arts I can tell you that EA did not aggressively lobby for the platform holders to put some gating function in there to allow or disallow used games. I am on record as being a proponent of used games. I like the ecosystem. I like the fact that it’s kept pricing at a good level for eight years. I like the fact that someone can buy a physical game and see some equity in that game. That keeps GameStop vibrant and they are a great launch and marketing partner for us.
EA has never had a conversation, and I have been present at all of them, with all of the manufacturers, saying you must put a system in place that allows us to take a piece of the action or even stop it. Absolutely incorrect.
Which begs the question, why does Microsoft feel the need to include 24hr internet checks to see if gamers are online using pirated software? Why would they make standard the loaning of disc-based games to only one friend? It is simply arrogance and greed? I don’t get it.
