Jazz2K said:
Nicklesbe said:
Xenostar said:
Yeah it is a good deal on the whole,
I do fear what it has already brought, that you have to pay for demos, and this type of service being implemented by every other publisher to the point where to play games you have to subscribe. And it ends up being a hellish place to be.
We already sub to play online, now subbing per publisher could just get awful very quickly.
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Also if anything it will prevent people with limited budgets from buying games from that publisher ever again and will likely push more people to the already cheap and easy mobile market.
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Limited budget is the reason they went with EAA. Why would they stop buying games from that publisher exactly? The first months are when a game sells the most, after that nobody buys them (unless they're Mario games).
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Because it started with just games behind the paywall, already theyve moved demos which were once free behind this paywall, probably only a matter of time before they put Multiplayer of new games behind this paywall. Its a fucking slippery slope where they try to add value not by actually adding new things, but taking away things that were once free for everyone.
For along time live pretended it was adding value by putting things like Netflix behind its paywall, thankfully MS reversed that decision to try and remain competitive. But Ea are blazing a new trail of publisher subs, so expect heavy tons of shit to follow.
Hopefully thats just being pesimistic, but this is EA here and and if other publishers follow it will be very crap indeed.
