One of the biggest talking points of the last month has been how used games will work on next-generation consoles. Even though Microsoft will now support used games and Sony will do the same , whether or not publishers will choose to somehow circumvent that policy remains to be seen.

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Activision

“ Historically Activision is one of the companies that hasn’t charged for used games and hasn’t done things like online passes and whatnot.

Ubisoft

“ We just want to figure out how we all can participate in making that a good thing for everybody.

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Bethesda

“ There’s more to it, and we want to make sure we understand it before we start spouting off.

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The day after its E3 conference, Sony said used game restrictions are “ up to publishers ,” echoing Microsoft’s original policy , which stated that “game publishers can enable you to give your disc-based games to your friends.” So far, Microsoft hasn't clarified whether or not its new policy allows publishers to dictate used game restrictions, and no publishers have announced specific policies just yet.While EA has stated that it won’t bring back online passes for Xbox One, we checked in with a few other big third-party publishers at E3 to see if they have used game policies in place yet.Unfortunately, they couldn’t say much.“The only way I can answer your question is by looking at history,” he continued. “Historically Activision is one of the companies that hasn’t charged for used games and hasn’t done things like online passes and whatnot. Our strategy as a company has been to try to make great content that people will want to buy and that they hopefully don’t want to sell. But that’s not an announcement or a future-facing statement. That’s just an articulation of how we’ve approached it in the past.”“There’s a lot of new information out there,” Key continued. “We knew maybe a little bit more than you did [before E3], but we learned a lot of new things as well. We understand that it’s a passionate issue and it’s a big decision. We see both sides of the argument. We’re going to tread carefully before we make a decision that so many people want to know about.”“You just have to appreciate that, in this climate, we’re reading some of this stuff too and going, ‘what?’ The notion that we know everything way before everybody else is not always true,” Hines added. “There’s plenty of stuff that we know, but there’s some stuff where we’re waiting to hear on this or that and then they say it in public. ‘Oh, so that’s the thing we were waiting to hear. I wonder how that plays out? What’s the fine print on this general statement that they just made? How does that affect us? How does that affect our relationship with these guys and our customers?’ There’s more to it, and we want to make sure we understand it before we start spouting off.”For more on next-gen used game policies, see our Xbox One wiki and PlayStation 4 wiki . For the other side of the coin, see what Nintendo had to say about used games at E3.

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