SONY: All Future 1st Person Games will Require Online Pass

[Groo The Perverted]

EDIT: Mods, please change thread title to reflect that this refers to all 1st party games with MULTIPLAYER.

Sony just revealed that starting with Uncharted 3, all future first party games will require an online pass.

This was sort of predicted when Resistance 3 came out with it, but now it's official.

Thoughts?

Last weekend, it was confirmed that Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception will be the second title (after Resistance 3) to make use of Sony’s Online Pass to enable the game’s multiplayer mode. Now it looks like the single-use code will become a regular feature of Sony’s upcoming games.

“Online Pass will be incorporated into Uncharted 3 and future Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios games with online functionality,” the company told Destructoid. “We will provide further information in the future.”

Online Pass requires users to submit a code in order to unlock the multiplayer mode for games, and was created in order to generate revenue from the used-game marketplace. Anyone purchasing a used copy of Uncharted 3 or Resistance 3 will be required to purchase one of the codes in order to access the games’ multiplayer modes.

The system has had its share of critics, but the statement from Sony seems to indicate that Online Pass is here to stay.