setsunatenshi said:
I appreciate your point of view on this, and on principle I believe EA should be able to have this service on the platforms that accept it. Right now that means Xbox and PC. One of things I'm arguing is this notion pushed by several people, that somehow Sony has some special obligation to open the doors in their platform for EA access and for that reason users are somehow being stolen of something.
I actually enjoy several EA published games and Battlefield is one of my most played games all year every year (on PC ofc), so it's not like I'm ignoring they have some quality titles.
Also I have subscriptions in game access services like PS Now. In this case I do it simply because there's a ton of PS3 games I want to play from time to time and don't want to be dragging an ancient system everytime . Now if Sony started giving me special access (early access) to new games just because I have that service I would also be pissed with it on the principle alone. There's no reason why I should get to play Last of Us 2 a few days earlier than Billy Bob down the street just because I'm also paying for an aditional service. That would be dirty as fuck and a slippery slope for the same type of shit to start happen more and more. It makes even less sense now that the goods are digital, so we know they aren't giving early access to some people due to low product availability.
So on a personal level, I'm glad you're enjoying the service you paid for, but I'm kind of glad that Sony on a leadership position is not giving in to those practices. Will it change in the future if it makes financial sense for them? Maybe, but I sure hope not. In any case I can only vote with my wallet, so if Sony and EA agreed to have this available I would simply not get it.
Having said all this, if EA would end that early access perk for their games, then I probably wouldn't have anything against it.
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