| Goatseye said: What is PS+ primary focus for Sony at the moment? Hide the multi-player behind pay wall or offer not so "free" games? The only real difference between PSNow and EA Access, is that we don't know yet if publishers are going to offer DLCs on PSNow at a discounted price. EA and Xbox have been a long time partner. What is the clause agreed on MS letting EA use their servers? You don't know. Does it make sense for them to use it for free? No it makes no sense. What would be in it for MS then? There lies the answer for your question. I don't want to know about the cost of business operation, I want to know the cost transfered by the businesses to me. How Sony and EA offer their services are not my problem. If you didn't want me to state the bolded part you shouldn't have posted this "retarded" bolded statement: "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." I would like for you to explain why is it "irrational" to expect price similarities between the two, when what you just doing is speculating EA's mo in this case. Bring facts stating that EA operates EA Vault for free. |
And you think that EA Access' primary focus is to offer you free games? No, it's for you to buy more EA content digitally. EA Access is a service that clearly shares a lot with PS+ and Gold, you get free games of the publishers choosing and deals with it and the whole multiplayer thing is exactly what people are worried about EA will do, hiding content of their games behind this subscription and since we're talking about freaking EA here, this is something I can easily see them doing.
I brought facts, you just chose to ignore them and post completely senseless bullshit.
What is this crap about the clause for using the MS servers to download the games? The clause is "release your game on our machine and give us a cut of every game sold" it has been that way ever since digital downloading on consoles began. Why do you think people constantly pointed out how downloads are much faster on 360 than PS3? It was because they had better servers and it certainly wasn't the third parties that provided these better servers on 360.
Now for reasons why it is completely irrational to expect similar prices:
1. PSNow server costs.
Even if, which is not the case, we assume that EA has to pay for the servers on their service directly, then every download would still just be a one time transaction. Every time you use PSNow you're using Sonys servers to stream the game. What do you think is more expensive for the server holder? One 30GB download or streaming a game let's say for one week/3 hours a day? You can say that is not your problem, but that would be just stupid, the cost of a service or good always influence its price and PSNow has way higher costs. You wouldn't say that a taxi should be as expensive as riding the bus, because both basically take you somewhere.
2. The actual service.
I already said it, but I'll say it again, if you compare the services for what they actually do, then they are hardly alike at all. PSNow lets you (or will let you) stream your games to several different devices, you basically get the hardware to play the games with the games, EA Access lets you download games on your X1. You have a way bigger collection of games from different publishers to choose from and it is actually completely yours to choose which game you want to pay for (and for how long) on PSNow, on EA Access you pay for the whole vault, even if you possibly only want one game out of it.
