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overman1 on 19 August 2014
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Goatseye said:
DerNebel said:
 

Ok, I'm sorry it's not pointless, it's utterly moronic. PSNow and EA Access are entirely different services.

PSNow: Streams a game through servers that Sony has to pay for. You decide which game you want to stream from a selection of, for now, PS3 titles from a range of different publishers, you also decide for how long you want to stream, prices need tweeking. The service basically replaces the console and is set to at some point be available on all devices with a screen.

EA Access: Let's you download EA games that EA chooses to put on the service on your X1,  probably through Microsofts servers, maintaining this is entirely free for EA.

If you really can't see how those services are different and how it's completely irrational to expect similar prices from the two, then you must obviously be trying not to see it.

If you want to compare it to a PS service, then compare it to PS+.

PS+? How moronic is that to compare a service that offers online support to your games to another that just lets you download games?

PSNow- Streams exclusively games to your console for a fee.

EA Access- Lets you download exclusively games to your console for a fee.

PS+ - a platform that auxiliates softwares to have access to Sony servers and they happen to monthly offer games as bonus. If you take a + out of that it's still gonna be a PSN, instead you wouldn't pay $50 a year for games Sony chooses to give you, without your consent.

The only point you made in your statement above is that you're willing to help Sony pay for the servers and not EA.

Also, you have no proof that EA uses MS servers for free whatsoever. Do you know if this is a deal for MS to bundle Fifa for free with X1 in Europe? I can speculate also.

If this deal is bad, customers will vote with their wallet and condemn EA Access the Origin fate.

No biggie.

The games on PSNow are not only exclusives  and there are a total of 120+ games including games from PS1 and Ps2 on PSNow this moment. EA access are for only games released this gen by EA which at this point is lacking severely when compared with PSNow. 

Also, there will be a subscription plan for PSNow which allows you to play on any SOny device including thier TVs...