Did he inform you of what they intend on doing, if anything, other then forwarding the info to "the upper floors"? Did he at least give you a hint as to what the problem could be (is it related to the latest patch as I suspect, an issue with the 360, etc)?
No he's just a community manager/PR etc.
He is forwarding my detailed info directly to the team in japan.
Meanwhile he gave me another Online Pass, but I haven't tried it yet.
In theory I still have the "Insert Online Pass" option in my menu (for some reason it stays there on X360 even after you inserted a code already), I tried to press on it and it actually asks me for the code, but I didn't use the one he sent me yet.
Why?
Simply because I'm afraid I could mess things up even more. I've been waiting a month, I want to wait until the official reply from Team Ninja now.
I already have a pass, it shows on the Xbox Live Marketplace and I can re-download it.
What would happen, were I to insert a new code?
Would I have to delete the one I have from my hdd first?
And were I to choose "download again" from xbox live would what happen? Would I redownload the first or the second?
So yeah, too many doubts and variables, don't wanna make the situation even more complicated, but it's been kind of him to give me one I guess.
Wait until the next systems come out from both companies, used games will be a memory & places like Gamestop where you bought retail copies will be probably a gone before long.
Same will happen with physical games probably, seeing the success of shit like steam etc.
I don't even remember how many pre-owned game copies in my life so far, very few. It's just that stuff like DRM and online pass are WRONG, no matter if they directly affect me or not, I just feel them as an abuse of power from game companies, and it makes me very angry.
And about the pre-owning thing, I understand the companies' concerns and tbh I feel I'm on their side.
But still, the way they are trying to address the issue is wrong, it's a way to circumvein laws and to trick customers. And who is to pay the price for that? Us, the customers.
That's just wrong.
Either sales of pre-owned stuff is declared not possible by the laws of a certain country, or if it is, they are circumveining the possibility of selling pre-owned stuff by putting a "tax" on it that usually just creates issues to other customers (take my case for instance) or just make things more annoying, slower and less user-friendly.
Each time you get a new game you have to subscribe to that new network, website, online code here, online code there, register here, insert this.
I mean, damnit, this is getting boring. I just want to PLAY, know what it means? I put the disk inside and I PLAY, I don't want to spend hours doing other stuff to play my game.
This is getting preposterous with some games where each company has their own "social gaming network" and basic features of the game force you to register to those networks to make use of those features.
Maybe it's just me being an antisocial, I dunno.
Back more IT, am I the only one experiencing a lot of bugs online on both PS3 and X360 versions? Compared to DoA4 and DoAU at least.
You had bugs there as well, sometimes the game would hang up and you had to turn off the console etc, but the "black screen" thing seems to be way more common in DoA5.
Basically you try to access a lobby but you get stucked in the black screen before the lobby is really loaded.