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DerNebel on 19 August 2014
Goatseye said:
DerNebel said:
Goatseye said:
I'm sorry but instead of paying $4.99 for couple of hours, I'll pay $5 for a month of some games that I love to play.
Sports and Battlefield 4 (which I haven't played yet) for % dollars is a no brainer.

Ah the completely pointless comparison to PSNow, I was wondering when it'd come.

How is it pointsless when both of them are based on "leasing" games for a period of time?

I was waiting on the defense also.

Ok, I'm sorry it's not pointless, it's utterly moronic. PSNow and EA Access are entirely different services.

PSNow: Streams a game through servers that Sony has to pay for. You decide which game you want to stream from a selection of, for now, PS3 titles from a range of different publishers, you also decide for how long you want to stream, prices need tweeking. The service basically replaces the console and is set to at some point be available on all devices with a screen.

EA Access: Let's you download EA games that EA chooses to put on the service on your X1,  probably through Microsofts servers, maintaining this is entirely free for EA.

If you really can't see how those services are different and how it's completely irrational to expect similar prices from the two, then you must obviously be trying not to see it.

If you want to compare it to a PS service, then compare it to PS+.



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Fusioncode on 19 August 2014

Oh my God are people STILL comparing EA Access to PS Now? For the love of Christ...



Sigs are dumb. And so are you!

The Fury on 19 August 2014
Azerth said:
I can only see the big 3 doing this as they are the only ones who release enough games through out the year

The big 3? EA, Activision, Ubisoft, Square Enix, Capcom, Take Two.... need i go on.



Hmm, pie.

PotentHerbs on 19 August 2014

If this picks - up I wonder how it'd impact PSN/ Live in terms of their content offerings.



DerNebel on 19 August 2014
Fusioncode said:
Oh my God are people STILL comparing EA Access to PS Now? For the love of Christ...

Shh, you get games digitally, that means it's the same.



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Brotherstotheend on 19 August 2014
The Fury said:
Azerth said:
I can only see the big 3 doing this as they are the only ones who release enough games through out the year

The big 3? EA, Activision, Ubisoft, Square Enix, Capcom, Take Two.... need i go on.



square enix and capcom have hardly enough games per year to make that kind of deal interesting, even activision couldn´t probably do it, since they only have crappy movie games and call of duty (and skylanders, but you can´t play that without additional hardware, so it wouldn´t make sense

starcraft on 19 August 2014
BeElite said:
Mr Puggsly said:

Bingo, just enjoy their games and don't give them any money.

Be a parasite!


MS started us on this path, got to fire back.  Mearly an option tis all.  

Hardcore treatment of X1 sure worked on them and the 180s, can work on 3rd aprtys.

Yep. MS started us on this path with PS+

Er...wait.



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starcraft on 19 August 2014
DerNebel said:

I'm baffled at all the naivety some people are showing here "Oh, it's just an option", "Don't like it don't use it", what have these publishers done to deserve this level of trust?

We are talking about a company that is right now refusing to let reviewers review their newest game prior to launch and another company that purposely hid graphics settings in the PC version of their last big game and that is not content with releasing a cross gen game, no they release two entries of AC this year one for last and one for current gen, so people ideally, for Ubisoft, buy both versions.

What have these companies done, that I should trust them and just say "welp whatever, they aren't locking away content here, so it's purely optional"? They aren't locking away content YET (well EA is locking away demos already, but I mean real ingame content), who's to say that they won't start doing it soon to get subsciptions up?

I personally have no fucking interest in a game industry where everytime I want to get a new game, I have to get a subscription too, just to have access to all its content. Seriously, fuck that.

Thats what both Xbox Live and PS+ are. Seriously.



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DerNebel on 19 August 2014
starcraft said:
DerNebel said:

I'm baffled at all the naivety some people are showing here "Oh, it's just an option", "Don't like it don't use it", what have these publishers done to deserve this level of trust?

We are talking about a company that is right now refusing to let reviewers review their newest game prior to launch and another company that purposely hid graphics settings in the PC version of their last big game and that is not content with releasing a cross gen game, no they release two entries of AC this year one for last and one for current gen, so people ideally, for Ubisoft, buy both versions.

What have these companies done, that I should trust them and just say "welp whatever, they aren't locking away content here, so it's purely optional"? They aren't locking away content YET (well EA is locking away demos already, but I mean real ingame content), who's to say that they won't start doing it soon to get subsciptions up?

I personally have no fucking interest in a game industry where everytime I want to get a new game, I have to get a subscription too, just to have access to all its content. Seriously, fuck that.

Thats what both Xbox Live and PS+ are. Seriously.

And I have neither and am very unhappy that I have to get PS+ at some point, when I get a PS4 and want to play online.



hinch on 19 August 2014

Yeah, I won't be supporting this.. We're paying less for content and ownership of our games as it is. And just like how DLC started well, these companies will always find news ways of squeeze more out of consumers and lock away more content. Things should have been included in the first place.. With online passes, microtransactions and now this. Nope. I don't have any faith in these companies at all - in not screwing us over.

If this takes off.. this will probably be the last generation for gaming, for me. At least on consoles.