Oh, man! I am soooooo damn shocked by this! I just cannot believe it! o.O

I really like the concept of EAA (bought a year right away) but for it to be of suberb value for me, they would need to release som Classic games on it aswell.

But is that not the point though, as long as you put it in your download que the game still gets catalogued to your account! I could let the service lapse and still if I picked up the subscription with the service again its still in my catalogue yes I have to take the time out and hit download once but is'nt that the whole point anyway? To try out the game? The net result is the same for both services just accessing each vault is slightly not the same. Psn+ service you better download que the game if you want to keep it in your vault. The other it stays no matter what without even having to download any.

But also menu wise the vault as it goes on will get filled up for both, but on one case the person may not want certain games in their vault anyway, not saying thats smart but some may never play certain games and would not want it cluttering up their vault. LoL

It's good value for someone who is only interested in Paying $8 once for 1 game for a week (or more). I think most people agreed the 4 hours option was a bit silly but the other options on the list seemed fair based on known rental prices of games back when Blockbuster existed.

All of these services are good value for those individuals willing to pay for them and get the value out. I do not believe in reality any of them are good value for overall consumer base, including PS+ or Live because it's the idea you have to keep paying to play the game. An example, I still play Tekken 6 to this day, I bought it for £25 5 years ago. If I were to pay £20 a year and every year since just to keep playing 1 or a few games I enjoyed from the service, I'd end up paying more. I may have well just bought the game. What happens when they remove that games from the service? What about in another 6 years time? My physical copy I can still play.

PS Now isn't like that however, it's not forcing you to subscribe to a service and making you pay every month to allow you to play the games, it's pay once for a period. You know what you are getting. It seems like old school rental, just streaming instead.

Life is bad...tagging so I can read through this later.

I guess people have a hard time remembering that for over a decade, XBL was for nothing but multiplayer, and was the only one that did it. And then, when the Xbox interface expanded to include apps and such....those apps were put behind the paywall of XBL. Apps that you only need an internet connection for, not a subscription to a gaming service.

It's hard to remember that only recently did you get "anything in return" in the form of Games with Gold, discounts on XBL Gold, and apps/internet browser not locked behind a paywall.

But what thismeintiel said was true: the Xbox fanbase excused the former for 10+ years. Excused multiplayer. Excused apps (like Netflix, which you already pay for) behind a paywall. Etc. Because "most people who get an Xbox get Live anyway" 

Just because you guys are finally getting some value out of your subscription doesn't mean you got it before and that you aren't "the same people who excused MS making them pay for online without giving anything in return". That post was talking about the past (the recent past included, mind you), not right now. I mean "of course the same people" kinda implies him referring to posts made in the past, right?

didn't they already start this??? oh wait, EA... right, sorry, I get these two mixed up all the time.

You did get something in return. A reliable online service with high bandwidth downloads, seldom outages, superior patch service afair deals with gold before getting free games.

Doubt that it will be a negative.  Sony will jump on board at some point(PS+).  They don't want to miss out on the money train.  Also, eventually the PS4 owners will clamor for this too.  Sony didn't do the EA Access because they wanted the control.  THey didn't do it becasue it was better for gamers or saved money for the gamers either.  Sony wanted control of the $$$.