After Dragon Age Inquisition and Titanfall, Battlefield: Hardline will be the newest addition to the vault. This one game is worth $40 digitally. You can get it and 13 other EA games for $5 a month or $30 a year on Xbox One.

Get hyped! #BFHardline is coming to The Vault this month. pic.twitter.com/LGaAm6VSKC

— EA Play (@EAPlay) October 5, 2015

Ea are being too nice this gen. I'm scared.
Surely, surely this will end up cutting into retail sales?

People who instead of buying the game at launch just wait for it on ea access as it's proven to be a wait of only 7-12 months, and people who otherwise pick up games cheaper, which costs more than a year's sub of access.

There must be something obvious we are missing. Are Microsoft subsidising it so as that ea incur minimal potential losses? May explain why it's not on pc at least. But really, coming from the same studio who heavily pushed multiplayer codes to play online, this is weird as hell

They can sell more DLC this way. I bet most people that wait for these games to be on EA wouldn't have bought the game brand new anyway.

YES!!!!!

I think people who really want the game will buy at launch. The ones who wait for games to be a lower price/used is what the service is for. So they're making their money from the people who don't buy thier games brand new. I was interested in Hardline but not enough to go buy it new. Now I might end up buying DLC for it with my access.

Plus, they have the people on other consoles buying their games either way.

Yeah, what you said makes me think microsoft must be giving EA probably like a few extra bucks per subscription. You were already paying for access, but you (not you but generally) would've bought it when it was cheaper, maybe $20. The purchase of 2 cheaper ea games per year probably makes more for ea than a years sub.

Unless i'm missing something obvious. But otherwise, if this was as big a money maker as I cannot see, I wonder why it's not on PC.

Unless EA are selflessly being nice.

Hmm, EA Access seems like a good deal in the short term but not the long term. I recently bought Battlefield Hardline for 20$. I think its a good option for some people who do not buy many games but not for everyone

If a game is in the store for $20, 90% of the time I'm not buying it new. And by the time the price is that low its most likely much later than when it would get to the Vault. 

Hell Battlefield 4 is 2 years old and still being sold for $30. Or I can use that $30 on 14 games with more added every few months.

Your comparing Retail game release to EA Access subscription model. Don't forget that on a 60$ retail release most of the price goes to the retailer and publisher might only get like 30% or less. That's like 18$ or less. But EA Access subscription they probably get 80-90% of the subscription base. Don't forget that the average console owner buys something like 3-5 games a year. With EA Access there a better chance for EA to increase their portion of the overall console revenues pie.

I think that's why they have short term and long term options.