@GhostAmongMen: They could just release a non-WM7 Xbox LIVE app that simply doesn't include the extra features that the WM7 version does.

@L3G10N: I don't see why people don't try to just sell the game to their friends for the same price(or $1 less) than GameStop sells it for used. It's just slightly less convenient, since you have to find someone who wants the game instead of going into a store that will buy the game off of you guaranteed.

@Vrank92: So you're saying that when a lot of people do something wrong, it becomes the correct thing to do? That's not what I was taught where I live.

@endless852: Go enjoy yourself.

@Vrank92: I don't care how long they work on something. Silicon Knights took 9 years to make Too Human, and it turned out to be complete crap. Naughty Dog worked on Uncharted 2 for approximately 2 years, and it was definitely worth it.

@monkeypoo2: It's MS's way of nickel-and-diming you and making you think you're spending less when you're really spending more. It makes them money, and they're greedy. It works for them. It doesn't work for anyone else. Perfect. Nothing needs to change.

How about this: Make the game worth keeping instead of bait-and-switching us(which is indeed fraud by the way) into buying the game new, then finding out that what you get is a broken, buggy, frustrating P.O.S. like Cerberus Network.

@bi-gE: Like the Flashback Map Pack for Gears of War 2? In a way, they're kind of already doing it.

@SILVERAMMO: @mruler360: @Kicken: And did you buy that car of yours used or new? Hmmm? The game publishers are just greedy scumbags who think they're entitled to more than they deserve. And people like you are letting them exploit you so easily by making it seem like it's unfair for them when it's really the…

What a horrid idea. This will in no way help them learn how to use QWERTY keyboards, and will actually be harmful to them learning how to use them. It's like saying that learning the order of a set of pictures in ascending order will help them to learn it in a completely random order.

@Gene Jacket: If you think that's ridiculous, you should head over to the LittleBigPlanet section of the store.

@Pretty Pink Pwnie: In her bellybutton?

@Sir-Lucius does anything for Dethklok: This makes me wish I had gotten Clear Sky on Steam. But instead, I picked it up for $20 retail like last year. It's not too bad, though, since Call of Pripyat was totally worth it!

@sizukhan: I believe it's online-only. And as with most deals, retail stores don't seem to want to have any connection to online stores for some reason.

@Uchikoma: Those are true observations. I have some casual gamer friends, and they all just think PC gaming is too expensive and too complicated. So they turn to consoles, which are much simpler.

@Uchikoma: Oh. But how are they different, really? PC gaming has mods, of course, but what makes it really different? They're the same games, it's just the hardware that's different. And that's the same case for the PS3 and Xbox 360, really. Gaming consoles are really just PCs optimized mainly for media and nothing…

@Uchikoma: PCs do count. They were what gamers used before consoles. You can't just boot them out and say that they don't matter.

@Uchikoma: Are you saying PC isn't a valid gaming platform? Who's the real troll here, now?

@d_r_e: Great idea! Jobbing banks is at least something.

Why not just make the game extremely addictive so they won't have any want for sex or drugs... or anything other than the game.