EA Starts Charging for Cheat Codes

[joule]

Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start -- most kids with an NES knew the Konami code. The all-in-one unlockable allowed some of us to actually beat a few of those nastily difficult action games back on the day, even if using the password was a dirty little secret.
But Electronic Arts is moving away from the days of button pressing; starting with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2007 on Xbox 360, they've officially started charging for the ability to unlock hidden content.

# Unlock Golfer - 200 points
# Pro Shop - 300 points
# Maxed out Player - 200 points
# Sunday Tigr - 240 points
# Unlock Courses - 200 points

That's not to say you can't access this content without forking over money; all EA's allowing players to sidestep the unlocking process from the get-go.

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[Baal]

What are these points?

 

[Computer5k]

360 marketplace points.

1 point = 1 cent, iirc.

 

[<RJMC>]

one day, everytime when someone turn the sistem on and put the game disc or open the shortcut,you will hav to pay to play the game or it will not work

believe me it will happen

 

[destrukt]

1 point isn't 1 cent and here is a page with prices and so on.

EA later said that they are "Doing us gamers a favour" by having these stupid things to buy which you can unlock for free by actually playing the game.

Next on the Marketplace, pay an EA employee to come to your house and finish the game for you.*

* It's optional as to whether you watch or not.

 

[TCfromBN]

EA, Die plz.

 

[nutcrackr]

360 users are dumb enough to take it too

/flame bait

 

[VictimOfScience]

You guys miss this?

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=114635

 

[Reginald]

I was gonna say, didn't this already happen 3 days ago?