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wick on 19 August 2014
DerNebel said:
I'm baffled at all the naivety some people are showing here "Oh, it's just an option", "Don't like it don't use it", what have these publishers done to deserve this level of trust?

We are talking about a company that is right now refusing to let reviewers review their newest game prior to launch and another company that purposely hid graphics settings in the PC version of their last big game and that is not content with releasing a cross gen game, no they release two versions of their newest game one for last and one for current gen, so people ideally for Ubisoft buy both versions.

What have these companies done, that I should trust them and just say "welp whatever, they aren't locking away content here, so it's purely optional"? They aren't locking away content YET (well EA is locking away demos already, but I mean real ingame content), who's to say that they won't start doing it soon to get subsciptions up?

I personally have no fucking interest in a game industry where everytime I want to get a new game, I have to get a subscription too, just to have access to all its content. Seriously, fuck that.

The problem is that morons are usually the ones who drive consumer trends.

Look at the rise of reality television and the sales of One Direction albums.

Unfortunately the the mass market is either too stupid or too naive to see when they are being taken advantage of.



 

 

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Azerth on 19 August 2014

I can only see the big 3 doing this as they are the only ones who release enough games through out the year



bubblegamer on 19 August 2014

Yoshida was right. This is beyond stupid.



BMaker11 on 19 August 2014

I say that we (and I mean, someone more skilled than I) photoshop a chalkboard or bingo board of all the stuff we'd be concerned about with this suscription stuff. More publishers doing it, locking DLC behind a sub, locking demos behind a sub, etc. There were lots of gripes about it and already, 2 have either happened or are being discussed. I wanna see how quickly a BINGO would be achieved. 



Goatseye on 19 August 2014
The Fury said:
Goatseye said:

My dream would be for publishers to get on board with Access and me paying $90 to play EA,Ubi and Take Two titles for a whole year.

It may be good but do you mind waiting a year or more for these games? They won't be brand new games for just $90 a year.

I still play Ace Combat 6 and Crackdown 2.



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Goatseye on 19 August 2014

I'm sorry but instead of paying $4.99 for couple of hours, I'll pay $5 for a month of some games that I love to play.
Sports and Battlefield 4 (which I haven't played yet) for % dollars is a no brainer.



DerNebel on 19 August 2014
Goatseye said:
I'm sorry but instead of paying $4.99 for couple of hours, I'll pay $5 for a month of some games that I love to play.
Sports and Battlefield 4 (which I haven't played yet) for % dollars is a no brainer.

Ah the completely pointless comparison to PSNow, I was wondering when it'd come.



Goatseye on 19 August 2014
DerNebel said:
Goatseye said:
I'm sorry but instead of paying $4.99 for couple of hours, I'll pay $5 for a month of some games that I love to play.
Sports and Battlefield 4 (which I haven't played yet) for % dollars is a no brainer.

Ah the completely pointless comparison to PSNow, I was wondering when it'd come.

How is it pointsless when both of them are based on "leasing" games for a period of time?

I was waiting on the defense also.



BMaker11 on 19 August 2014
Goatseye said:
DerNebel said:
Goatseye said:
I'm sorry but instead of paying $4.99 for couple of hours, I'll pay $5 for a month of some games that I love to play.
Sports and Battlefield 4 (which I haven't played yet) for % dollars is a no brainer.

Ah the completely pointless comparison to PSNow, I was wondering when it'd come.

How is it pointsless when both of them are based on "leasing" games for a period of time?

I was waiting on the defense also.

Do you ever compare Redbox to Netflix? Or how about a PPV MMA card vs getting cable and watching weekly fights on Spike TV? They both deal in "watching movies" or "seeing fights". That means they're the same, right?



The Fury on 19 August 2014
Goatseye said:

I still play Ace Combat 6 and Crackdown 2.

Yes but again my point was that you won't get Dragon Age on this service of EA's straight away, not for a long time.

I still play Tekken 6, I paid once for it £25 5 years ago. I'm not going to pay £20 a year to keep playing it though.



Hmm, pie.