EA is brilliant: people creating 2nd accounts for EA Access to have 6 more hours of early Madden access

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kinisking said:

Zackasaurus-rex said:
People can be really stupid...

This applies to all EA Access subscribers, of course.

Explain. The point of ea access isn't just early access. We get this on top of free games(total cost in stores is over 30) 10 percent discount and this. Shut up

EA Access is a pretty obvious slippery slope and gateway drug on the part of one of the most notoriously manipulative publishers in the industry.

Content will never be created for EA Access -- it will be cut from people who don't subscribe. "Early access" is by definition either beta testing for a price or delaying access for non-subscribers. 10% off means that EA will be lowering product values by 10% internally. You can see their attempts at subtly  increasing the prices of games with their $70 versions of Madden and Dragon Age: Inquisition -- Pay $70 instead of $60 and get some of the content that was cut away from the $60 players.

Why are EA doing this? Because they can use it to increase the de facto cost of gaming, restrict game ownership, and refuse to cooperate with PS+/XBLG, which is are cross-publisher benefits packages which provide better services without the same level of shadiness.

If EA Access succeeds, then more notorious mega-publishers will follow suit, demanding $30+ sub fees from all of us... And we'll find that we're worse off overall.

Don't believe Ondore's lies~