| Uddermode said: EA Access is a good deal to some, bad deal for other but most importantly (to EA) more money. EA is a business and one who has been know to do everything for money. Now imagine that games in the Vault stay there for a long time ~6months. Why would anybody ever pay for an EA game ever again if the games can be played for 30 bucks a year? No EA is to smart for that. Depending on the popularity of the game they would keep it there for a few months probably 1. EA would have to be very generous and lose a lot of money if anybody really believes EA is going to keep games there for a long time. This service is a way for EA to take money away from people who normally wouldn't buy an EA game. EA is probably planning to sell the same or more amount of physical and digital games at full price. The longer games are in the vault, the more they hurt their sales. But keeping the games in the vault for the right amount of time would give EA major profits as they make the same amount of money and then add the new revenue from there EA access. Basically EA found a way to make money by taking advantage of those diehard fans who play these games yearly and giving benefits to those who don't buy EA so that at least EA makes 30 bucks off of them. EA proabably expects current fans of their game to buy access and then still buy every game that comes out at full price or the 10% iff price. My thoughts are that if a generous enough company does this, then this could be a blessing and a really good thing. Problem is I don't think I can trust EA to not f this up and try to take as much money as possible. I do believe this deal is really good for those that don't buy the games after they are taken down from the vault but for those who do all you lose is an extra 30 bucks a year which may seem little but eventually if enough companies do this, you'll easily pay 100+ extra and combined the services may not seem as great anymore. But I could be wrong and EA doesn't try to maximize profits and this becomes good for everyone. Only time would tell. |
I doubt EA will be pulling brand new games in the vault. They'll obviously be games that have already made their money which no one wants to pay even their $20 depreciated price.
People keep making the point of all companies will do this and suddenly you lose 100s of dollars blah blah. Mate, you don't have to subscribe if you don't want to. If there is Ubi Access, Activision Access, EA Access...hey pick 1 or pick 2, or pick none. All up to you.
Even then, $100 per year for 3 companies for let's say 30 games in the vaults combined, + discounts + early access sounds EVEN better.
The Access lets me play the games I wouldn't want to even pay a used price for + get the discounts on the games I do buy as an early adopter.
