What are your views on Online Codes? (Or whatever they are called.)

[Chrono]

A general rule of thumb for PC gaming is use Steam or blow yourself up.

Pardon me while I go blow myself up because there's good games that aren't on Steam. (Blockland, which also has an 'online code')

[Ad Bot]

[Extrude]

You should blow yourself up for not having common sense anyway.

[Kingdaro]

it'd be better to say "download or blow yourself up" because I think the time to download outweighs the whole code bullstuff.

[Chrono]

You should blow yourself up for not having common sense anyway.

I do not have Steam installed what-so-ever.

it'd be better to say "download or blow yourself up" because I think the time to download outweighs the whole code bullstuff.

It doesn't take much effort to type out a code.

[Kingdaro]

It doesn't take much effort to type out a code.

eh, i guess it depends.

it kind of sucked for me when I was activating my windows reinstall because i had to look back behind my computer a couple times for fragments of the code

though that's a completely different medium so this example isn't valid anyway.

[Sami2ss]

... I'm pretty sure no console game I have ever played has needed a code to play online. It's probably some stuffty XBOX scam like their online system.

It's funny because PS3 does this.

[Soukuw]

Don't tell me you actually believe this bullstuff. A game is a product. You have just as much right to buy or sell it second hand as you do first.

I never said it was the law I just said it is never really worth it.

[blaman]

It's funny because PS3 does this.

I haven't played my PS3 in some months now due to having all my games on PC, but in the 4 odd years I've had my PS3 I never remember typing in a code to activate anything?

[Kalphiter]

I do not have Steam installed what-so-ever.

I took steam of the auto start list because I didn't need it

[Chrono]

I haven't played my PS3 in some months now due to having all my games on PC, but in the 4 odd years I've had my PS3 I never remember typing in a code to activate anything?

Only some games do it. I'm actually surprised you didn't play any of them.

[tails]

Banning second hand games is a horrible idea, When i was younger i basically lived on them and trading in because i was all poor and sadface.

[Bisjac]

never buy a used pc game. i cant believe there even is a term for it. but they dont exist.

edit; technically you could use the serial number for a solely single player game and it shouldnt be an issue.
but even if a single player game has online activation or accounts, the key may be useless anyways.

[Bisjac]

Banning second hand games is a horrible idea, When i was younger i basically lived on them and trading in because i was all poor and sadface.

publishers lose more money on trade-ins and 2nd hand selling then they do on piracy.

dosnt make it nice to do, but its their fix.

[Regulith]

Has this code thing become popular in the last year or two? Because that's around when I stopped playing and therefore buying console games and I never saw them. Seems like a stupid idea to me.