| Goatseye said: 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. |
Wow buddy, how about you at the very least get your information right. What does PS+ do on PS3 and on Vita, where the online is free? Uhh it gets you games for "free". Also EA Access does not only let you download games, it also has that whole discount thing (incidently PS+ has the same, curious isn't it?), which is actually what EA really wants people to use (you know, buy more games digitally, so EA gets a bigger cut from each game sold) and the early access.
The money EA has to pay MS is what every publisher has to pay the platform holder when they sell a game on their platform, the royalty fee, nothing more. Why the hell would they have to pay MS extra now for using their servers, that makes zero sense. Games that are bought on Xbox Live or PSN are always downloaded through the platform holders servers.
PSNow on the other hand basically gives you the hardware to play your games as well, you don't just get the game and the whole streaming thing means constant costs on Sonys end.
And regarding the bolded: That makes no sense, cause I'm currently not paying for PS+ or PSNow, I'm just sick of people making this retarded comparison between PSNow and EA Access, since it is obviously only made with the console wars in mind.
