Default Prime's Matt Hearfield takes a closer look at online passes and the increasing number of issues relating to them and why developers might end up spending more money than they make.

Quite recently, there has been a lot of controversy over the inclusion of “online passes” into most games. Now for those of you who aren’t sure what an online pass does, they almost always lock out a piece of content on the game disc (usually the online portion) unless a single-use code, which comes with all new copies of the game, is entered. When buying used games you often have to shell out an extra $10 for another code to be allowed to use the online features

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