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bubblegamer said:
Ka-pi96 said:
bubblegamer said:

So we're ok with paying 30 dollars per year to demo games now? wow gaming is progressing!

Ya know you could view it as:

EA Access: 5 dollars a month to play at least 1, probably more, games for 6 hours

PS Now: 5 dollars to play 1 game for 4 hours

Which is the better deal there?

Non logical. EA access doesn't have a 5 dollar option. You need to buy the sub for 30 dollars.

Yes they do. They have a $5 option. You seem to know nothing about the service other than Sony telling you it's not worth it.



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*facepalm* I love ignorant customers /s



Ka-pi96 said:

But it would be playing the full game for free, because that is what they are offering with early access. EA access is what like 40 quid a year? EA release like 10+ games a year probably so to buy all of them new would cost 400-500 pounds and you think people should get full access to every EA game for the week prior to release without paying a penny extra to the EA access fee? That would pretty much end sales of EAs games, people would get EA access and then never buy an actual game again.


That's EA's own problem when you create a premium subscription service. They could choose
not to have this service and just stick with demo's/
PS Plus deals with the 'what if no one ever buys games, just gets them free' malarky.
If EA want to charge a subscription, the least you expect is value.
Where's the value in a rotated vault that doesnt let you build a backlog, or
the timed demos.
Madden is not a story game, it cant be 'completed' in a week, so for games with stories like dragon age
that should have limits on the campaign, but madden, fifa etc. should be a complete early access for
about a week.



What exactly did people expect? That they can play every game 5 days before release as long as they want and when the game finally releases most games are already finished so that you don't even need to buy the game anymore? lol....

The early access demos are obviously only a small addition to the service and the main purpose are still the games which are in the Vault and which will be released in it. You should pay for what is there and not for what you hope to get.



LudicrousSpeed said:
bubblegamer said:
Ka-pi96 said:

Ya know you could view it as:

EA Access: 5 dollars a month to play at least 1, probably more, games for 6 hours

PS Now: 5 dollars to play 1 game for 4 hours

Which is the better deal there?

Non logical. EA access doesn't have a 5 dollar option. You need to buy the sub for 30 dollars.

Yes they do. They have a $5 option. You seem to know nothing about the service other than Sony telling you it's not worth it.

That one is for ONE game. So you can't say you can pay less and try and argue that this could be limited to this game only!



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It seems to me that people here are just using this as justification as to downplay EA Access. This is only ONE of the features. 

There's the vault option for past EA games, 10% off battlepacks and DLC, and 10% off the games and DLC (digitally), lastly, demos 5 days before the release date. 

I don't even get how you would complain about 6 hours for a demo... especially for Madden. 

And yes... there is also a $4.99 option, so it's not just "paying $30 to access limited demos.



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Fusioncode said:
Ka-pi96 said:
bubblegamer said:

So we're ok with paying 30 dollars per year to demo games now? wow gaming is progressing!

Ya know you could view it as:

EA Access: 5 dollars a month to play at least 1, probably more, games for 6 hours

PS Now: 5 dollars to play 1 game for 4 hours

Which is the better deal there?

Sigh. 

Why do people constantly feel the need to turn these threads into EA Access vs PS Now? It's apples and oranges.


Casue they lack argument and cant or dont want to see a distinction between to wildly different services.  Hilariously ea access is like Plus or gold, but comparisons to them is not faverable to their arguemnts.



So you actually get 6 hours of access to the actual game, not a gimped down version? That is pretty awesome really.



fireburn95 said:
Ka-pi96 said:

But it would be playing the full game for free, because that is what they are offering with early access. EA access is what like 40 quid a year? EA release like 10+ games a year probably so to buy all of them new would cost 400-500 pounds and you think people should get full access to every EA game for the week prior to release without paying a penny extra to the EA access fee? That would pretty much end sales of EAs games, people would get EA access and then never buy an actual game again.


That's EA's own problem when you create a premium subscription service. They could choose
not to have this service and just stick with demo's/
PS Plus deals with the 'what if no one ever buys games, just gets them free' malarky.
If EA want to charge a subscription, the least you expect is value.
Where's the value in a rotated vault that doesnt let you build a backlog, or
the timed demos.
Madden is not a story game, it cant be 'completed' in a week, so for games with stories like dragon age
that should have limits on the campaign, but madden, fifa etc. should be a complete early access for
about a week.

Why exactly do  you think the games will rotate and won't let you build a backlog? EA made it pretty clear that games once in the Vault will be always in it except if they have to take it out for some legal reasons (maybe if they would have a licence for a movie adaption which would end after some years or so)

 



bubblegamer said:

That one is for ONE game. So you can't say you can pay less and try and argue that this could be limited to this game only!

You know how PS+ is $50 for a whole year? They also have an $8 a month option? $7? I forget.

EA Access has a year long $30 option, or a one month $5 option, which gets you complete access to the service.