| archer9234 said: These services are pointless. Unless you actually play every single game, that's on the service. And never stop playing them. Because the time off, is just wasting money. The same with Amazon Prime. Unless you buy stuff weekly. Than you lose money. You pay for access for games. Why not just buy the games you want. Pay once. And not a monthly fee. Second: Early access. This use to be free. As a thing called a demo. This is the bad logic Elite Dangerous does. I paid for all the expansions, for the 2.0 updates. But, I can't use the beta of the commander update. You gotta pay for that. Assinine. I paid, in advance, for all the updates. And that's not good enough. |
Because the monthly fee is far far faaaaaar cheaper than buying even one game. I have played about 250 Xbox One games, 27 of them are EA games. Out of those 27 I bought 1. It was Dragon Age Inquisition GOTY only for the DLCs for about 20€.
If you care about even only 1 or 2 game(s) in the vault line-up, it's already worth paying a FULL YEAR. When Dragon Age Inquisition came into the Vault, it was still 25-30€. Star Wars Battlefront is currently 18.50€ (on German Amazon), Mirror's Edge Catalyst is currently 23€ (again on German Amazon).
Now the best thing is, you DON'T have to pay a full year. One month costs 4€ (2€ when it's on sale on key seller sites). I played through Dragon Age Inquisition in one month. I played through Mass Effect 1-3 when they hit the BC program in two weeks. Mirror's Edge Catalyst and Need For Speed are roughly 15 hour games, easily completable within a month. How is paying 2€ (or 4€) for a single month to complete one of these games that are worth 20€ each too much?
Also I'm not saying one should buy EA Access for a trial. That's not what the service is about. But trials are still faaar superior to demos. Demos are much shorter and thus cannot represent the game nearly as good, demos don't let you test every game mode, demos don't let you keep your save and demos don't unlock achievements either.
I just checked. Since I got my X1 (July 2015), I paid for 9 separate months of EA Access. Spent 24€, played EA games for 306 hours and completed:
Battlefield 3
Battlefield 4
Battlefield Hardline
Dragon Age Inquisition
Mass Effect
Mass Effect 2
Mass Effect 3
Mirror's Edge Catalyst
Need For Speed
Need For Speed Rivals
Peggle 2
Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2
Unravel
Not to mention several sports games. How many of these games could you buy for 24€?
