No matter what fighting the consumer on this is just going to drive away business. Did they ever think that the reason your sales and pre order are so high; is that these people can sell back their games to put that money toward more games. Used games keep those that dont have the money more exposed to franchises and more likely to grab a new game that they enjoy and will keep. To fight this makes me question the level of education these people have. If these companies keep striping things away because their teams cant make a decent product that people dont want to sell back withing the week. If they could this wouldnt be a problem in the first place. If this is the attitude of the industry honestly they all go out of the business for all I care. Its not like they are making great games anyway Fable is a shell of itself now and a joke! They ruined it by being greedy and to into themselves to do the job properly and now wants to blame the second hand market. Please the gaming industry has not felt any where near the job loss that other industries has and this while being plagued by business killing pirates and used products sells. These people need to shut up and get make to making better games not making them worse to upset used customer's. Your curious buy the game used its half missing why would you buy anything from that developer again you wouldn't.

"I think, as a team, we're quite happy with what we've done with Dragon Age II, and this is establishing a solid foundation" -Bioware ?seriously? Ok.. so no more bioware for me.... I cant belive they think this is the way to go. Bye bioware I would say I miss you, but now not so much. I'm looking at the comments and thumbs and usually if you come on a games section and criticized that game your are not as welcomed and receive thumbs down. And that happened at first with DA2 but it seems as time goes on and people finish the game it gets harder to defend it. DA 2 seems to have very few fans that like the changes. If the developer dont see that then the few ones that do, need to quit and form a new company. Plus even the fans that like the game, universally agree that it just isnt as good as DA:O. If the developers cant see this then I have no faith to try another one of their games. My rating on this game has gone from a 8 in first act, to a 7 by the second act, and 6-5 range by the end. The fact review sites dont take their job seriously and overrate anything with large marketing dollars doesnt mean your game is good. To reviewer not only are you doing a disservice to your readers but to the games themselves. Just stop it. Sorry for WOT :)

Basically the game was unfinished, limited party choices, recycled the first levels until the end, reduced NPC interaction, made looting pointless, and a severely reduced world to explore. Oh but I get to hit X all the time waiting for cool down and now things gib! yay! Its gamespot so.. note sarcasm on last part.