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The Fury on 19 August 2014
Brotherstotheend said:

hardly comparable with ea multiple yearly sport franchises+battlefield+bioware games+other stuff like nfs, mirrors edge, star wars battlefront or pvz,

activision access would have to be really cheaper or it would pale in comparision

Doesn't matter. If they do it they'll do it on their terms, their price, their games they want on there. Pale sure but it'll exist.



Hmm, pie.

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JPL78 on 19 August 2014

After reading the comments I just find it sad how hard the xbox fans are sucking EA's dick here. I mean, for like 15 years everyone I've ever seen post anything online was super vocal about how EA is the worst company in video gaming and continually looking for ways to screw their consumers but suddenly they are God's gift to Xbox? And we trust them completely with this and can guarantee it will in no way negatively effect the industry despite almost all of their previous actions negatively effecting the industry? But just because it is exclusive to your console you ignore all of those things, LMFAO. You guys are pretty delusional.

I'm reminded of a saying, "you can't see the forest for the trees."

Moderated,

-Mr Khan



mornelithe on 19 August 2014
hinch said:

Yeah, I won't be supporting this.. We're paying less for content and ownership of our games as it is. And just like how DLC started well, these companies will always find news ways of squeeze more out of consumers and lock away more content. Things should have been included in the first place.. With online passes, microtransactions and now this. Nope. I don't have any faith in these companies at all - in not screwing us over.

If this takes off.. this will probably be the last generation for gaming, for me. At least on consoles.

Pretty much this.



Goatseye on 19 August 2014
DerNebel said:

Ok, I'm sorry it's not pointless, it's utterly moronic. PSNow and EA Access are entirely different services.

PSNow: Streams a game through servers that Sony has to pay for. You decide which game you want to stream from a selection of, for now, PS3 titles from a range of different publishers, you also decide for how long you want to stream, prices need tweeking. The service basically replaces the console and is set to at some point be available on all devices with a screen.

EA Access: Let's you download EA games that EA chooses to put on the service on your X1,  probably through Microsofts servers, maintaining this is entirely free for EA.

If you really can't see how those services are different and how it's completely irrational to expect similar prices from the two, then you must obviously be trying not to see it.

If you want to compare it to a PS service, then compare it to PS+.

PS+? How moronic is that to compare a service that offers online support to your games to another that just lets you download games?

PSNow- Streams exclusively games to your console for a fee.

EA Access- Lets you download exclusively games to your console for a fee.

PS+ - a platform that auxiliates softwares to have access to Sony servers and they happen to monthly offer games as bonus. If you take a + out of that it's still gonna be a PSN, instead you wouldn't pay $50 a year for games Sony chooses to give you, without your consent.

The only point you made in your statement above is that you're willing to help Sony pay for the servers and not EA.

Also, you have no proof that EA uses MS servers for free whatsoever. Do you know if this is a deal for MS to bundle Fifa for free with X1 in Europe? I can speculate also.

If this deal is bad, customers will vote with their wallet and condemn EA Access the Origin fate.

No biggie.



LudicrousSpeed on 19 August 2014

Good. Great, actually. Let Ubisoft give us Uplay Gold or some shit. Let Activision give us Activision Premium. And Crapcom. And 2k. Awesome. That just means more competition which means the services make themselves more and more appealing for customers which means customers win. I don't know why anyone would be against this, unless it's for silly doomsday maybe potentially this might one day probably happen maybe.

If you are a fan of the publisher, sign up. If not, don't. Nothing changes for you.



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overman1 on 19 August 2014
Goatseye said:
DerNebel said:
 

Ok, I'm sorry it's not pointless, it's utterly moronic. PSNow and EA Access are entirely different services.

PSNow: Streams a game through servers that Sony has to pay for. You decide which game you want to stream from a selection of, for now, PS3 titles from a range of different publishers, you also decide for how long you want to stream, prices need tweeking. The service basically replaces the console and is set to at some point be available on all devices with a screen.

EA Access: Let's you download EA games that EA chooses to put on the service on your X1,  probably through Microsofts servers, maintaining this is entirely free for EA.

If you really can't see how those services are different and how it's completely irrational to expect similar prices from the two, then you must obviously be trying not to see it.

If you want to compare it to a PS service, then compare it to PS+.

PS+? How moronic is that to compare a service that offers online support to your games to another that just lets you download games?

PSNow- Streams exclusively games to your console for a fee.

EA Access- Lets you download exclusively games to your console for a fee.

PS+ - a platform that auxiliates softwares to have access to Sony servers and they happen to monthly offer games as bonus. If you take a + out of that it's still gonna be a PSN, instead you wouldn't pay $50 a year for games Sony chooses to give you, without your consent.

The only point you made in your statement above is that you're willing to help Sony pay for the servers and not EA.

Also, you have no proof that EA uses MS servers for free whatsoever. Do you know if this is a deal for MS to bundle Fifa for free with X1 in Europe? I can speculate also.

If this deal is bad, customers will vote with their wallet and condemn EA Access the Origin fate.

No biggie.

The games on PSNow are not only exclusives  and there are a total of 120+ games including games from PS1 and Ps2 on PSNow this moment. EA access are for only games released this gen by EA which at this point is lacking severely when compared with PSNow. 

Also, there will be a subscription plan for PSNow which allows you to play on any SOny device including thier TVs...

 



LurkerJ on 19 August 2014
starcraft said:
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 entries of AC this year 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.

Thats what both Xbox Live and PS+ are. Seriously.

Except they are not. Seriously. Just because both services offer free games as an added bonus it doesn't make them similar to EA access. 



Goatseye on 19 August 2014
overman1 said:

The games on PSNow are not only exclusives  and there are a total of 120+ games including games from PS1 and Ps2 on PSNow this moment. EA access are for only games released this gen by EA which at this point is lacking severely when compared with PSNow. 

Also, there will be a subscription plan for PSNow which allows you to play on any SOny device including thier TVs...

 

It has Fifa on it. That's enough for me as I buy their franchise every two years.



starcraft on 19 August 2014
LurkerJ said:
starcraft said:
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 entries of AC this year 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.

Thats what both Xbox Live and PS+ are. Seriously.

Except they are not. Seriously. Just because both services offer free games as an added bonus it doesn't make them similar to EA access. 

You cannot access all content of a great many (even most) games these days without these services.



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overman1 on 19 August 2014
Goatseye said:
overman1 said:
 

The games on PSNow are not only exclusives  and there are a total of 120+ games including games from PS1 and Ps2 on PSNow this moment. EA access are for only games released this gen by EA which at this point is lacking severely when compared with PSNow. 

Also, there will be a subscription plan for PSNow which allows you to play on any SOny device including thier TVs...

 

It has Fifa on it. That's enough for me as I buy their franchise every two years.

Well that is good for you but maybe not for everyone else...