i think the EA deal is better value than most offers so far. If games as a service goes down the PSnow route, i guarantee Everyone will hate themselves for not going the EA route. $5 a month for many games is better than $4 dollars a day for one.

Playstation wasn't right to reject it. This is about control and it is much better value than what sony is offering.

Its one small step to the fall and break up of PS as it is, what do i need a PS console for if every publisher has their own service.

"we don't think asking our fans to pay an additional $5 a month for this EA-specific program represents good value".

So this is the big problem? A pretty fair statement of a 'thought'. At least that's what the writers makes you believe.

In all, I stopped reading after the third paragraph. Trying to create a tempest in a teapot.

Exaggerating again? Not every publisher will do so, of course. We are talking about EA, a massive publisher, if not the biggest. Smaller ones won't have the same appeal.

Being blind to reality to suit your opinion?

They all want $, they see EA pull of a new stream of revenue what you think will happen,  what business are you in that you dont expect everyone else to follow suit.

Good article and one that explains it pretty well. Personally, well I have my XBLG, my Netflix account, my Huluplus account and so on, so subscribing to get different media content isn't really that strange, and a wise economic decision for me. If people don't want it, fine, just don't subscribe to it.

Because they don't want to copy Microsoft with all them choices.

I do wonder what would happen if something like EA Access succeeded. Would other publishers follow the same pattern? Would we end up with not 1 service with all content on but 10 services with part content on because each publisher wants to promote their service? Surely the streaming business should be done like Netflix/AmazonPrime where 2 or 3 competing services get all products and the owners of those products get a cut.

Pretty much how PS+ works. Ah, well, not like I'd sign up to something like this, that or anything really, don't even want PS+.

Amazing read. 100% agree.

I said this from the first time this was announced. The problem with what EA is doing and why sony wouldn't wanna support it is because choice like this does nothing but fragment the industry even more. If this takes off you will have every major publisher having their own service for their games, and smaller publishers teaming up to make a "channel" for their own service.

And before you know what, you have third parties providing "service bundles", that could have all the different services for a discounted price of $50/month. Isn't that all really beginning to sound like television?

No no no no and no.I really don't see anything good coming from this down the road