| eva01beserk said: They started it with consoles and MS started charging for it, but thats not the poin. Its that as soon as one did it, it took almost no time for the others to do it to including sony and nintendo. PC's used to have expansion wich where a lot more meninfull and actually added content unstead of removing it and selling it to you separatly. But they already locked the madded early acces behind it. And its not going to start with entire games, it wwill be like dlc, or exclusive content. Its like the deal with origin and nintendo, when they refused nintendo dint see another EA game on the console. Another thing was when EA and steam had the same issue but steam caved so now they haveorigin integrated. So it has already happened. |
Can't really compare the console market and PC market in this regard. The PC market doesn't have to worry about used games or rentals and it comes packed with DRM. Were you a fan of the Xbone as revealed, or did you hate everything about it? Unless you are a fan of always online, no used games, and DRM, then don't compare the PC and console market.
Also, the proliferation of DLC was an infinitely more natural than anything you can try to predict might maybe someday possibly happen with EA Access.
And what did EA "lock" with Madden? The game had a 6 hour time trial, which requires an EA Access subscription. Why would they allow anyone to play a 6 hour time trial? People made a big stink about no demo, but guess what? Madden 25 didn't have one either. Also, NHL and FIFA both get the time trials and demos.
Still waiting on a logical explanation as to why EA would handcuff and neuter their own sales by making games and DLC exclusive to EA Access.
