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DerNebel on 20 August 2014
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Goatseye said:
DerNebel said:

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.

Where did I implied EA Access focus is to offer free games? What content is EA hidind here? Do you predict future to be judging EA preemptively?

You didn't bring any facts. No links, no articles, no hard evidence to show that EA does not pay for MS server usage.

All you doing is implying that EA doesn't pay for MS servers, although you never showed anything to back it up. I, as well implied that EA doesn't pay for servers but in the business clause they have with MS, it allows MS to bundle Fifa with Xbox in Europe for free. My words in this case have as much weight as yours.

1. Here you slamed your foot in your mouth by comparing Taxi to bus, two forms of public transportation. So you admit that PSNow and EA Access are two forms of game rental service, which the latter delivers it through the download form and the other through streaming. It gets even more similar when according to you guys Sony is taking a monthly/yearly subs into account. That was our main topic. As for the price? I don't give a rats tits about their cost of operation again, who does? My concern is the bill and EA Access seems more friendly to my wallet; they have the best soccer sim, one of the best FPSs, a fun Arcade racing game and more future games to come for $5 a month.

Oh I'm sorry, I thought that the simple usage of logic would be enough, sure maybe EA has to let MS bundle Fifa for free so they can let people download games on the Xbox through MS servers, let's completely ignore that literally every digital game on Xbox or PS is downloaded through MS or Sonys servers, no let's act as if there is logical reason to assume that EA had to give Fifa to MS for the use of a feature that every developer gets for simple royalties.

1. Great job concentrating on the example I used to highlight nothing more than the fact that you wouldn't pay the same for two services, when you know that they mean completely different costs for the provider. Also, everybody that claims to not consider the production costs of a product when talkng about its price is lying to themselves, you wouldn't go and complain to MS about the X1 being more expensive than the 360 either, because you know that it's more expensive to make the X1. Also I don't give a fuck about your "EA Access is great for me"-speech. It appeals to you? Fine, I don't care, but stop acting as if the EA Access and PSNow comparison has any merit, cause it doesn't at all.

And if there is one company that fully deserves to be judged preemptively then it's EA, they deserve absolutely no level of trust, why would I trust a company that is right now refusing reviewers to review The Sims 4 before release? And who has a huge history of anticonsumer bullshit?