Mr.Playstation said:
@last paragraph: I also didn't like what Microsoft were doing with Xbox live and I didn't buy it. Guess what?..It proved to still be popular enough for Sony to take up the model.
@first paragraph: Fifa 15 on Xbox One sold only 168,111 units in 2015 ( up till now ). I don't think EA should have kept the game for just 168,111 units, yet they still deemed it worthy enough to keep it away from EA Access for the first 5 months of the year. It's quite clear that if a game has long legs you won't be seeing it in EA Access any time soon. |
168,000 * lets say £15 = £2,415,000
That doesn't even include digital.
Now lets estimate 500,000 EA Access subscribers, paying £4 a month.
£2,000,000
And a lot of those EA Access subscribers hardly subscribed solely for fifa.
So basically, EA made an extra £2,000,000 this year that they wouldn't have made if they gave it for free much earlier in the year.
But as soon as sales slowed down, they're giving it for free.
Lack of sales revenue on fifa would be hopefully offset by current and new subscribers.
In conclusion, there's a reason why EA are one of the most financially stable companies, because they are smart business wise.
If they were to appeal to the better nature of their consumers, they wouldn't make as much money, which means, less invested in games.
This way, they are still honouring their commitments (Games added to the vault) while being reasonably smart.
I don't like EA Access for I assume the same reason as you don't, I don't want UBI and ACTI to move to this, then everyone will have sub models I feel like I have to get. But no one can deny its value.
