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TheNelsconey on 08 August 2014

6 months at earliest



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vivster on 08 August 2014

Sounds a bit weird. There are just too many loopholes for game sharing and other ways to take advantage of it.
The fact alone that you don't need an EA account is really weird.



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NiKKoM on 08 August 2014
vivster said:
Sounds a bit weird. There are just too many loopholes for game sharing and other ways to take advantage of it.
The fact alone that you don't need an EA account is really weird.


Its like the devil itself is on vacation! 



 

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Burek on 08 August 2014
shikamaru317 said:
BeElite said:

See thats not gonna happen, they would cannibalize their own sales.  

Just thinking about it from the business side of it, only games that exhusted their ability to sale will be on there.  Ill likely be a service stuffed with game that sold low (a nice way to pull some extra revenue from them) and old aaa games espoecially before sequal comes out.  

By reasonable amount of time I didn't mean like a month after release. I meant like 3-4 months. They wouldn't be losing as much as you'd think, many games are already on sale for as much as half off within 3-4 months, and they'd only be losing sales on 1 out of 3 next-gen platforms. Plus updating the service that frequently would likely convince at least half of all Xbox One owners to subscribe, and as Xbox One lifetime sales go up, so will EA's subs. This year they could potentially reach 4 million subs ($120 million), next year they could reach 8 million ($240 million), by the end of the generation they could maybe even have 20 million ($600 million) or more subs to the service.

4 million by the end of the year? You think half of all console owners will get it? I'd be shocked if half of all owners had Gold, let alone this limited apoeal service.

I'm guessing EA would be happy with 400K subscribers, and maybe one million in a few years time.

Also, just to be clear, I think this is a great service, I have nothing against it. I've used its X360 version in previous years and enjoyed it, and am sad it's not on PS4. But no way it will attract half the owners.



Raziel123 on 08 August 2014

Lies, lies everywhere. I'll trust their TOS over their casual words.



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BeElite on 08 August 2014
Burek said:
shikamaru317 said:
BeElite said:

See thats not gonna happen, they would cannibalize their own sales.  

Just thinking about it from the business side of it, only games that exhusted their ability to sale will be on there.  Ill likely be a service stuffed with game that sold low (a nice way to pull some extra revenue from them) and old aaa games espoecially before sequal comes out.  

By reasonable amount of time I didn't mean like a month after release. I meant like 3-4 months. They wouldn't be losing as much as you'd think, many games are already on sale for as much as half off within 3-4 months, and they'd only be losing sales on 1 out of 3 next-gen platforms. Plus updating the service that frequently would likely convince at least half of all Xbox One owners to subscribe, and as Xbox One lifetime sales go up, so will EA's subs. This year they could potentially reach 4 million subs ($120 million), next year they could reach 8 million ($240 million), by the end of the generation they could maybe even have 20 million ($600 million) or more subs to the service.

4 million by the end of the year? You think half of all console owners will get it? I'd be shocked if half of all owners had Gold, let alone this limited apoeal service.

I'm guessing EA would be happy with 400K subscribers, and maybe one million in a few years time.

Also, just to be clear, I think this is a great service, I have nothing against it. I've used its X360 version in previous years and enjoyed it, and am sad it's not on PS4. But no way it will attract half the owners.

Ture its not a bad service depending of how they handle it.

Im also thinking of getting it, and thinking of how i can abuse the shit out of it.... get it for $5 and not log X1 online for a few months as i pay the games for months for a mere 5... or will there be mandatory online registration every x amount of time.  hmmmm



vivster on 08 August 2014
NiKKoM said:
vivster said:
Sounds a bit weird. There are just too many loopholes for game sharing and other ways to take advantage of it.
The fact alone that you don't need an EA account is really weird.


Its like the devil itself is on vacation!

Well it's nice of him that he was still available to answer these questions then :P



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Puppyroach on 08 August 2014

I sure hope more companies offer similar things on X1. MS won't loose gold members since you still need it. But I would gladly pay 5$ for a Ubisoft vault as well, or maybe a Capcom one, or Sega.... yeah Sony, this IS good value for gamers.



BeElite on 08 August 2014
Puppyroach said:
I sure hope more companies offer similar things on X1. MS won't loose gold members since you still need it. But I would gladly pay 5$ for a Ubisoft vault as well, or maybe a Capcom one, or Sega.... yeah Sony, this IS good value for gamers.


no its not and you just proved it, how many subs this gen will i need then.



Doctorslim on 08 August 2014
Puppyroach said:
I sure hope more companies offer similar things on X1. MS won't loose gold members since you still need it. But I would gladly pay 5$ for a Ubisoft vault as well, or maybe a Capcom one, or Sega.... yeah Sony, this IS good value for gamers.

You only need gold for multiplayer.