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Can you buy games straight from your Xbox 360 and if so, how?

Used Xbox 360 games...which can I buy used without also needing to buy a new reg code?

  • I'm thinking about buying a few used Xbox 360 games online. Does anyone know of a definitive resource that can tell me which games/publishers are likely to require me to buy an additional registration code in order to access full online functionality? I'd prefer to know beforehand before I do my online shopping. I've heard EA are pretty keen on doing this and I guess I'd like to know if it's becoming more and more common. By the way, I'm not bothered about missing out on extra DLC if it didn't come with the game as shipped on the physical media; I'm only really concerned about being able to play online. Is there a website that keeps track of this kind of thing?

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    > This sort of thing may actually be something places like GameStop are okay at. You can take a look at the actual boxes, which almost always tell you what the deal is. This sort of this is often extremely vaguely worded, buried in fine print. "Some features require online feature purchase", for example, halfway through 2pt. font address boxes for all the production facilities.

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Uh, you guys do realize I posted a list above, right?

OnTheLastCastle

It's a game-by-game kind of thing; I just Google for "online pass + [gameName]" when doing this. If you post a list of games you're thinking of buying, we can probably help immediately; I do not know of any single site that track this.

ellF

I know that more recent EA Sports titles come with online activation codes. They're printed on a separate sheet as the manual, and tucked in with the manual. That would be something to keep in mind when receiving used games, too - the seller may have taken the sheet out.

Jeff Morris

pretty much anything in the last year from EA or Sony (first party) right off the bat.

Oktober

Heh, whoops, glossed over "360".

Oktober

OnTheLastCastle

Also this http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/121/1215418p1.html. Many games even w/o multiplayer give extra features for having a pass ala Batman: Arkham City.

OnTheLastCastle

This sort of thing may actually be something places like GameStop are okay at. You can take a look at the actual boxes, which almost always tell you what the deal is.

valkyryn

I don't believe there is such a list, unfortunately. It's almost never obvious until you put the disc in. As a general rule, I think all EA published games with multiplayer use them now, and most Ubisoft games. Warner Bros and THQ have started using them in a few games (e.g. FEAR 3, Saints Row 3). I don't believe any Activision games use them. Googling the specific game and "online pass" beforehand is probably the easiest way, but note that they sometimes use "online pass" to mean a subscription to all of the DLC. Online passes have been in use long enough for publishers to determine that they aren't making much money off them, so they might go away. But publishers absolutely loathe the used game market, so they might just keep using them out of stubbornness.

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