Danyelle |
05-01-2012 08:03 PM |
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Originally Posted by mgellan
(Post 635270)
Titanium is going for $10 on eBay, why bother stealing it?
Regards,
Mg
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To be completely and totally fair...
1. There's a limited number of Titanium box sets out there anymore. As discs end up permanently in peoples' possessions, scratched, damaged, and otherwise destroyed over time there will be no more for sale at all anyway. They are no longer made, and in fact, Sony no longer makes box sets at all. Up until F2P it was digital distribution ever since Seeds of Destruction (Secrets of Faydwer was the last box set). Ever since F2P you just download the client from the patcher for free with no money exchange. Essentially Sony is saying their client has no monetary value, only the service does. And even then apparently only some (or judging by the F2P model, most) of the services have value as some (few) can be used for free as well.
2.The only thing that even ever held value on the Titanium box sets before F2P was the CD key. When you consider most, if not every, box set you buy has the CD key used already anyway (and thus is a worthless string of numbers and letters) and when you add to that the fact that now every account on Live gets every expansion through House of Thule for free, leaving only Veil of Alaris (Which is obviously well beyond Titanium's years. 7 years later to be exact) that needs purchased. That means the CD keys, assuming there are anymore out there un-used in the first place, equate to, MAYBE, 1 month of Gold membership and 500 station cash. AKA ~$25 in value in USD. There's assholes on Ebay that sell it for $100....
3. Sony has long since pocketed the meager profit of the 50 Titanium box sets left on the market. That cash goes to the Ebay seller now. Sony no longer sees cash exchange for Titanium purchases and hasn't for years. Besides, by the sound of it, I'm sure half of the people playing P99 despise Sony anyway because they "killed Everquest" and don't want to give them any of their money in the first place. Everyone with half an ounce of sense outside of P99 uses SoD and Underfoot anyway, which are, as of the F2P model dropping, only available through 19th century buccaneers from mysterious cyber bays.
4. There is no 4. Read 1-3.
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