EA: Early Access Is Limited To 6 Hours

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fireburn95 said:

Ka-pi96 said:

But it would be playing the full game for free, because that is what they are offering with early access. EA access is what like 40 quid a year? EA release like 10+ games a year probably so to buy all of them new would cost 400-500 pounds and you think people should get full access to every EA game for the week prior to release without paying a penny extra to the EA access fee? That would pretty much end sales of EAs games, people would get EA access and then never buy an actual game again.

That's EA's own problem when you create a premium subscription service. They could choose
not to have this service and just stick with demo's/
PS Plus deals with the 'what if no one ever buys games, just gets them free' malarky.
If EA want to charge a subscription, the least you expect is value.
Where's the value in a rotated vault that doesnt let you build a backlog, or
the timed demos.
Madden is not a story game, it cant be 'completed' in a week, so for games with stories like dragon age
that should have limits on the campaign, but madden, fifa etc. should be a complete early access for
about a week.

Why exactly do  you think the games will rotate and won't let you build a backlog? EA made it pretty clear that games once in the Vault will be always in it except if they have to take it out for some legal reasons (maybe if they would have a licence for a movie adaption which would end after some years or so)