| ironmanDX said: It was hypocritical. I'm just annoyed at it and it's coming through. My apologies, intrinsic.
Ea access is an optional subscription. It's not like it's going to stop shops selling second hand games. I'm not sure if affordable games will be an issue.
Sign up to, for arguments sake, ea access, Ubisoft and Activision for 90 a year. That's a massive amount of games, really. You'll save mountains of cash.
Only negative I see is to gamestop and the like as well as smaller development companies. Let's see how it plays out though first, right? |
as i said, in theory its a great idea. But my concern is that its not one that should be spread across every single content provider. Which is inevitably what will happen when/if this picks up.
And that $90 for a lot of games thing? you currently subcribing to any cable network? now look at what they give you.... tons of movies! but how old are they? and how many really good ones haven't you already seen.
like movies, the games will also come at least 9 months to a year+ after their disc debut. What that means is that in 2 years, the only games worth getting for free on the service will be games you didn't care enough about to get when they were new. You may call it "games", i see it as filler.
And lastly, this is just a start, if this thing picks up, believe me when i say it wouldn't be optional anymore. EA, Ubi,Activision...etc, will eventually claim that they have dedicated servers running their games and the only way to play online is on their servers which (you guessed it) will be behind a paywall. then those prices will start to climb. I am certain of this, cause if i were them, and i am getting away with all that they are doing (ps+/xbl included), its exactly what i would do.
