buying used ps3 games wise?

TigerUK

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Hi

I'm new to ps3, in fact I don't even own a ps3, I recently bought a ps3 for my nephew and now buying games for him.

I bought modern warfare 2 brand new for £16 thinking that he needs the serial to play online. But I inserted it and started playing and there was no prompt for serial key, a bit strange to see coming from a pc gamer.

Got me thinking, do serial keys mean anything with ps games?

I wanted to buy fifa 12, if I buy a used one will it still work online?

Taling of which any decent family friendly games available?
 

Woden

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Many games work fine, but its becoming increasingly popular to include a code in the box for an "online pass", thats non-transferable.

Unsurprisingly EA use these a lot. But none of the CoD games have (yet).
 

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EA and Ubisoft both use an online pass to enable online gaming content, however these are not the same as a serial key for a pc game which is needed to get the game started, an online pass is just a code for online play, the single player content doesn't need a key or pass etc.
 

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some games have codes for online like EA but the rest of the game works fine and you can always buy the code separately on xbox live / PSN so buying used games is fine, plenty of deals on older games
 

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You need to google the game name with 'online pass' to find out but there is probably a list somewhere. I stopped buying 2nd hand games because I kept buying them, only to see the game new for a similar price shortly after.
 
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