I would say that I'm surprised about Homefront having multiplayer...but then I realize that this is KAOS FUCKING STUDIOS!  Desert Combat is still one of the best multiplayer experiences around, and while Frontlines may not have taken off like they had hoped, the game was definitely fun as shit while it lasted. 
 
In the end, though, I'm more interested in the single player story of this game.

This is how you make shooters.
  http://cdn-www.cracked.com/articleimages/randall/fps5.jpg
 I hope this game follows the rules.

How they dare! we deserve everything.. god damm freaking video game industry that produces wealth and gives cool jobs to people.. how you dare!? don´t you understand we need it free we deserve it to be free!!

Even though Homefront's multiplayer is going to be dead within 2 months, faster if the game itself isn't any good, this doesn't seem like a bad idea.

" @somejerk said:

" I can't complain about publishers taking on schemes like these with the money they lose on used sales and rentals, but maybe just maybe they would make more initial sales if the prices were lower so people wouldn't go "This doesn't look like purple spangly crack so I'll just rent it or buy it used".. and maybe if their prices weren't slowly being applied to the effin PC platform. "

They don't lose money on used sales and rentals. Its just money they don't earn. Whether or not someone rents or buys a game used, the publisher will still have the same amount of money. "

" Whatever happened to being able to buy one game and enjoy it with whoever the hell you want to share it with in your home?"

This isn't a new thing in gaming. PC gaming has had to deal with it for over a decade. (Legally, anyway)

Be glad that you only have to spend $10, and not buy a whole new copy of the game.

I'm not sure how to feel about this. 
 
 On the one hand, I see a creative way of getting around used game sales not generating any revenue, but on the other, it seems so strange a marketing move to the point that it just feels like needless milking for more money that may or may not backfire for them in the end - Homefront might be seeing less people buy their game because of this.
 
I wonder though, if the used value of the game will then drop faster than it would have without this online pass system in play? If that were the case, then we'd be spending the same amount of money either way, but Homefront's developers would then get more money.

Guess Im not getting this game then!

One thing that THQ is overlooking is the amount of people who buy used games who influence other people to buy the same game (which leads to other purchases), and those people influence their friends to buy the game, etc... Modern video game purchasing on a mass scale is heavily influenced by social network feedback, however, if the game is really good, then it won't matter, but if the game is marginally decent, then I believe it will negatively affect sales.

Seems fair to me.
 
Good for them.

How is this a story? Isn't the first time THQ has done this. The did it with the last UFC game.

" Fuck them. What they're basically saying here is that they want to suck an extra $10 off of every person that plays this game. Meaning that after I buy it for $65, they're going to require an extra $10 if my little brother (who lives with me while he's going to college) wants to enjoy the multi-player. And if my girl wants to have the full multiplayer experience, I have to pay another $10 for her, too. Because this is clearly going to be tied to the *account*, just like Cerberus and other bullshit are (not merely to the SYSTEM, but the ACCOUNT). 
 
Whatever happened to being able to buy one game and enjoy it with whoever the hell you want to share it with in your home?  
 
Gra nted, nobody is going to be playing the multiplayer after the first month, so the point is probably moot, here. But it's the principal and the fact that they'll continue to do this with other titles as well.   If you want to charge $70 or $80 for your game, just fucking do it already and stop with this bullshit. "

That is easily one of the most baffling and awful decisions I've ever seen in my life. Restricting people from getting past level 5 without a pass is just plain ridiculous. 
 
The video game industry sucks.

Can't decide if this game will be epic, or if we are just having a bit of uber-hype going on. This will be one of those "waiting for metacritic score before i buy" games i'm affraid :(

I don't think I can get over the fact that they want us to believe that North Korea could launch a invasion against the mainland America.  Shoot, just the armed citizens of America could whup up on them dirt eaters.

I have to agree with others when I say why again is it Americans getting invaded?  Shock value isn't what it once was.

" Seems fair to me.  Good for them. "

I borrowed this from my cousin who bought to see if I would like to buy it.  You can not rank up past level 5 and you have to be level 7 to try the battle commander mode.... That is the mode I wanted to try to decide if I want this game or not.  Fucking idiots....  I don't mind them locking weapons but locking out game modes in a game that only has four modes seems rather stupid....

if the game sucks, it's their fault, if people want to get rid of their game, it's their fault, if people don't want to pay full price for their game, guess what? it's their fault, they made that uninspired piece of crap. 
Why should we pay extra for their mistakes? the poor, uninformed people who bought the game new already did that.