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crissindahouse on 11 August 2014
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mornelithe said:
Jazz2K said:
Can people who say other publishers joining EA with the subscription would be bad for the industry explain themselves! Right now people seem to hate on it mainly because it's a X1 exclusive and/or that EA could potientialy remove their games from XBGold and PS+ and PS Now...

The escapist video is based on "what ifs" with unrealistic paranoia.

He explained it in the video?  Basically, EA doesn't deserve our trust, and if EA is successful, then you're also talking about an Ubisoft service, and an Activision service and any major publisher who thinks they can cash in on it.  Eventually, you're paying for PSN, XBL, Origin, Activision, Ubisoft etc...  ergo, paying several hundred in just subscription fees.

It's not as if you would have 100 publishers who have enough games to even think about this. EA does it because they release a lot of games per year so that they also have a realistic number of games they can release in the Vault. Most other publishers would have to work  together on a service and if we will have like  5 different services anytime soon, they will obviously also compete in price and quality with each other.

If you buy your games mostly new you can still do it since that will still make more money for the publishers so that they won't stop to release games as single purchase and if you play games only like a year after release you should easily get a lot of games with a few subscription where it would make sense to subscribe for maybe one service a full year and for other services only for a month when there is a game you want to play. 

For me it's pretty obvious why we get these services like PS+, EA Access and so on... Publishers are aiming especially at those who would normally only pay money for these games on the used games market or for maybe a few bucks in a store so that even a few dollar  is better for them as if someone would buy the game on the used market. But that doesn't mean that it will be more expensive for you as a customer over the year, just that publisher try to get at least a few dollars for their older games. 

I mean, you can argue "if 10 publishers do that I have to pay 300 bucks a year" but not sure why you would think that. You won't have to pay for every service as long as you don't play games from all of them and if you would play so many games from so many different publishers you would probably pay the same or even more if you would get the games without this service. I mean, let's be honest here "paying for so many different services for older games" would be only true for those who pay already for "so many different older games"