| crissindahouse said: 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" |
It's not just the money, it's also that EA isn't a trustworthy publisher, that they've already put a demo behind this pay wall, and that every time a publisher (or manufacturer) comes up with a new revenue stream, everyone tries to figure out the best way to fuck the user with it. I'm not getting it. Everyone else is free to do so, but no fucking way for me. I'm perfectly happy researching games, buying the ones I prefer, and telling the rest to piss off (or picking them up for $5 on a steam sale), this model just reeks of abusability, maybe a year or two after the service is launched, if they've managed to behave themselves...maybe, and that's a really thin maybe.
