Speaking to Eurogamer, Tim Willits, the id Software creative director, said that access to the game's underground will be restricted to those who get their copy new at retail. "You've played Rage five times. Have you found any sewer hatches?" Willits asked his interviewer. "If you bought the game new, that would be open for you. "

Willits figures this is less obnoxious than other Online Pass mechanisms because, in those instances, people know what they're missing. Not with Rage! "Some people will buy Rage, download that, and still never set foot in those things. They just won't. I think that's fair. It's cool," he said.

The sewer-system content is "outside the main path" of the game, so therefore its absence — whether one is entitled to it or not, I suppose — won't diminish the story.