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Madword on 21 July 2015
MoHasanie said:
Lortsamler said:
If it will succeed,Sony will allow it on PSN,it's that simple.

Um... Sony didn't want EA access because they said it wasn't good value. Why should they decide that? 

Yeah let's not go through this again...it's obvious why they should decide it, and why they didnt want it.



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Lortsamler on 21 July 2015
Faelco said:
Lortsamler said:
If it will succeed,Sony will allow it on PSN,it's that simple.


If it succeeds, Ubisoft, Activision, Square Enix, Bethesda and others will do the same and soon/next gen, we will have to pay 20-30 dollars a month to play the "full experience" of all our games (DLC, multiplayer, release date... anything can be included). Playstation players have the right to doubt IMO... XBox players payed to play online without saying anything and now we need to pay too, because it's "normal". Even Nintendo does DLCs now because it became "normal" in the industry. If we accept anything, then our industry can become anything. 

 

It's great. 


I didn't say i am for this. I personally hope EA Access will never succeed,because then we have that situation you explain here. The sad thing,is that most people don't seem to get that.



MoHasanie on 21 July 2015
DerNebel said:
MoHasanie said:
I'm not sure how anyone can say EA access is bad. Its $2.50 a month to play free games and get early access. And even if you don't want it, its always nice to have the option of getting it rather than having no options at all. Personally, I like the service and I hope Ubisoft and Square Enix offer similar services.

Because of its possible implication, pretty sure we went through this already.

And you think Sony was worried about it's implications and that's why they didn't allow it? 

It would compete with their PS+ rental service and they didn't want to lose subscriptions...



    

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Goatseye on 21 July 2015
Faelco said:
Lortsamler said:
If it will succeed,Sony will allow it on PSN,it's that simple.


If it succeeds, Ubisoft, Activision, Square Enix, Bethesda and others will do the same and soon/next gen, we will have to pay 20-30 dollars a month to play the "full experience" of all our games (DLC, multiplayer, release date... anything can be included). Playstation players have the right to doubt IMO... XBox players payed to play online without saying anything and now we need to pay too, because it's "normal". Even Nintendo does DLCs now because it became "normal" in the industry. If we accept anything, then our industry can become anything. 

 

It's great. 

$30 a year is the sub. And EA Access is not the "full EA experience", everyone that uses it knows it.

It's just another option and a very welcoming one. I guess you'd rather get scalped by Gamestop.

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DerNebel on 21 July 2015
MoHasanie said:
DerNebel said:
MoHasanie said:
I'm not sure how anyone can say EA access is bad. Its $2.50 a month to play free games and get early access. And even if you don't want it, its always nice to have the option of getting it rather than having no options at all. Personally, I like the service and I hope Ubisoft and Square Enix offer similar services.

Because of its possible implication, pretty sure we went through this already.

And you think Sony was worried about it's implications and that's why they didn't allow it? 

It would compete with their PS+ rental service and they didn't want to lose subscriptions...

I don't care why Sony didn't allow it (there is probably more behind this than meets the btw., why is the service not on PC for example?), I only care about the possible future this might start where all publishers have subscription services like this and lock actual game content behind it to get more people to subscribe, which I personally find to be a horrible scenario (and look at the other shit publishers have been doing in the last years to get money from people before you say that this wouldn't happen).

Also the main appeal to PS+ is online play, so EA Access doesn't really interfere with that at all.



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Goatseye on 21 July 2015
DerNebel said:

I don't care why Sony didn't allow it (there is probably more behind this than meets the btw., why is the service not on PC for example?), I only care about the possible future this might start where all publishers have subscription services like this and lock actual game content behind it to get more people to subscribe, which I personally find to be a horrible scenario (and look at the other shit publishers have been doing in the last years to get money from people before you say that this wouldn't happen).

Also the main appeal to PS+ is online play, so EA Access doesn't really interfere with that at all.

What features do EA Access bar non subscribers from?

I understand your concern but all you're stating are preemptive ideas to shut down a service based on your fears.



MoHasanie on 21 July 2015
DerNebel said:

I don't care why Sony didn't allow it (there is probably more behind this than meets the btw., why is the service not on PC for example?), I only care about the possible future this might start where all publishers have subscription services like this and lock actual game content behind it to get more people to subscribe, which I personally find to be a horrible scenario (and look at the other shit publishers have been doing in the last years to get money from people before you say that this wouldn't happen).

Also the main appeal to PS+ is online play, so EA Access doesn't really interfere with that at all.

Well I can't disagree with you on that. EA and every big publisher wants more money. 

That is true about PS+ now, but there were still 2m people that subscribed to the service before the PS4 came. Those are the types of gamers that are interested in free games. And EA access came 1 year ago when the situation was different. At that time there were much less PS+ subs. 



    

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Ruler on 21 July 2015
TheSting said:
Ruler said:


imagine if everyone came with an own service. The next day you know you would be paying for Ubisoft access, Activision playfront, Square Enix Expierence, Bethesda Volt.

EA could release the game earlier for all platforms but they are delaying it so they can sell their EA Acess on Xbox. How is it a good thing?


Imagine if EA were the only one's to do it. Then you'd only optionally have to pay for it like now. 

It's a good thing because I support EA Access and I get to play it before it's released everywhere lol

its not an option for me if they screw the consumer and delay the game on porpoise to sell their EA access 



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Ruler on 21 July 2015
MoHasanie said:
DerNebel said:
MoHasanie said:
I'm not sure how anyone can say EA access is bad. Its $2.50 a month to play free games and get early access. And even if you don't want it, its always nice to have the option of getting it rather than having no options at all. Personally, I like the service and I hope Ubisoft and Square Enix offer similar services.

Because of its possible implication, pretty sure we went through this already.

And you think Sony was worried about it's implications and that's why they didn't allow it? 

It would compete with their PS+ rental service and they didn't want to lose subscriptions...

yeah because people rather would play Battlefield offline?



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DerNebel on 21 July 2015
Goatseye said:
DerNebel said:

I don't care why Sony didn't allow it (there is probably more behind this than meets the btw., why is the service not on PC for example?), I only care about the possible future this might start where all publishers have subscription services like this and lock actual game content behind it to get more people to subscribe, which I personally find to be a horrible scenario (and look at the other shit publishers have been doing in the last years to get money from people before you say that this wouldn't happen).

Also the main appeal to PS+ is online play, so EA Access doesn't really interfere with that at all.

What features do EA Access bar non subscribers from?

I understand your concern but all you're stating are preemptive ideas to shut down a service based on your fears.

This industry has given me enough reason to have these preemptive ideas.