To follow you up on that, I've always been wondering why EA as a company doesn't update the prices of your games as they age up (well, okay, you do, but it takes several years after the game's release, unless the game was considered a flop, then you act immediately), or why don't you organize some huge sales of older games?
I personally understand why people look for 'cheaper' means such as G2A, Pingu and whatever else websites that can offer a lot cheaper, 'ancient' games, eg. Dragon Age Origins, or first two Mass Effects (I have physical copies of all of the games mentioned). Solution is very simple: why don't you lower the price of games that are simply put - old, like The Sims 3 and it's expansions? A lot of us find it rather weird that The Sims 3 and The Sims 4 both are priced exactly the same! The Sims 4 Get Together preorder - 39,99 euroes, each one of TS3 expansions is also priced at 39,99 euroes... Isn't it time to 'update' your pricing? Hell, most of us can find cheaper games/expansions at our local 'reputable' retailers (especially during sales)... It's just something to think about.
Also - speaking of 'digital' products, sadly, physical copies do fall under the 'digital product' part, don't they? When Mass Effect 3 first released, I was not only prompted to register my code at Origin, otherwise I wouldn't be able to play it at all... Everything I had to do with the game afterwards, was 'digitally' done.
All those 'shady' websites wouldn't have the right to exist if most of game developers didn't charge so much for your old games... Speaking of which, some of those games are nowhere to be found, like Bioware's Neverwinter Nights + expansions, what I, among many others, would love to play out of nostalgia.
PS: Sorry for the necro, when I saw 02-10 I thought it was posted in october... Realized it too late you're using american way of calendar usage/dates and timestamps. I've just been wondering about EA's official stance about G2A, Pingu and all those websites, since a friend of mine has been scammed.
