| etking said: Why is having to pay for a time limited demo seen as value? |
tbf youre paying for like 30 games in the vault and 10% of all EA games.
Aren't demos limited? Trial lets you play the whole game. I think services like this are great value and hopefully other publishers will offer them. I don't see nothing wrong with this, i only want to own some specific games I play and i could still buy those.
| archer9234 said: These services are pointless. Unless you actually play every single game, that's on the service. And never stop playing them. Because the time off, is just wasting money. The same with Amazon Prime. Unless you buy stuff weekly. Than you lose money. You pay for access for games. Why not just buy the games you want. Pay once. And not a monthly fee. Second: Early access. This use to be free. As a thing called a demo. This is the bad logic Elite Dangerous does. I paid for all the expansions, for the 2.0 updates. But, I can't use the beta of the commander update. You gotta pay for that. Assinine. I paid, in advance, for all the updates. And that's not good enough. |
Because the monthly fee is far far faaaaaar cheaper than buying even one game. I have played about 250 Xbox One games, 27 of them are EA games. Out of those 27 I bought 1. It was Dragon Age Inquisition GOTY only for the DLCs for about 20€.
If you care about even only 1 or 2 game(s) in the vault line-up, it's already worth paying a FULL YEAR. When Dragon Age Inquisition came into the Vault, it was still 25-30€. Star Wars Battlefront is currently 18.50€ (on German Amazon), Mirror's Edge Catalyst is currently 23€ (again on German Amazon).
Now the best thing is, you DON'T have to pay a full year. One month costs 4€ (2€ when it's on sale on key seller sites). I played through Dragon Age Inquisition in one month. I played through Mass Effect 1-3 when they hit the BC program in two weeks. Mirror's Edge Catalyst and Need For Speed are roughly 15 hour games, easily completable within a month. How is paying 2€ (or 4€) for a single month to complete one of these games that are worth 20€ each too much?
Also I'm not saying one should buy EA Access for a trial. That's not what the service is about. But trials are still faaar superior to demos. Demos are much shorter and thus cannot represent the game nearly as good, demos don't let you test every game mode, demos don't let you keep your save and demos don't unlock achievements either.
I just checked. Since I got my X1 (July 2015), I paid for 9 separate months of EA Access. Spent 24€, played EA games for 306 hours and completed:
Battlefield 3
Battlefield 4
Battlefield Hardline
Dragon Age Inquisition
Mass Effect
Mass Effect 2
Mass Effect 3
Mirror's Edge Catalyst
Need For Speed
Need For Speed Rivals
Peggle 2
Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2
Unravel
Not to mention several sports games. How many of these games could you buy for 24€?
It is awesome. An insane value. Between this and the XGP, Xbone is killing it in digital game services. On the console front, anyway.
I subscribe for a month any time there is an EA game I am buying. You do that and you get $6 off the game you buy, meaning EA actually pays you a buck to play all their vault games for a month.
A lot of people had and still have doomsday worries about how it will affect gaming, idk, seems to still be rolling along fine. If the pricing is similar, I'd love for other publishers to follow suit.
Nautilus said:
There are none, if you have have tons of money in your bank and like burning them. In no realistic scenario you would use the maximum you could of each service(remembering that some services offers free games) and still have the time and buy all the games(and finish them) that you want.And that dosent even include your daily routine or obligations.And thats not to include the fact that, assuming the amount of money I said is correct, you could basically buy 6 launch games in a year. One or two services are fine, but more than that is just wasting money on something you will barely use.And that could be better spent elsewhere. |
1. You don't HAVE to use it. Only use the service you want. Only subscribe to your favorite company.
2. You can still buy games for $60 the old fashioned way. Just like, instead of subscribing to Netflix, you can just buy the movie.
You don't like options? Discounts? Access to dozens of FULL games for $2.50 a month?
Its a great service I don't know why people hate it, I was going to writte about it but I have only been subscribe it for 3 months.
Play the heck of PvZ:GW2 that game should be ported to the Switch
d21lewis said:
1. You don't HAVE to use it. Only use the service you want. Only subscribe to your favorite company. 2. You can still buy games for $60 the old fashioned way. Just like, instead of subscribing to Netflix, you can just buy the movie.
You don't like options? Discounts? Access to dozens of FULL games for $2.50 a month? |
First of all, I was arguing why its not good to have multiple services like this, because if they were successful, people would be spending rivers of money on them and just burning it.(and that would create more problems as publishers would push for more things that are exclusive to those services, and we would lose as costumers)If it wasnt successful, companies would just waste their money on it.
And Options are fine and all, but at the end of the road (for me) I always buy physical game, with an exception here and there reserved for indie games.I dont need and want acess to dozens of games that I would not have either the time to play or the will to play games that are not my style.(I think this one in particular can be applied to everyone)
People overestimate options.Its great to have options, but its one thing to have options and another to actually have options, in the sense that it dosent matter if you can do that if the service dosent suit you.Or if it is a quality service.
My (locked) thread about how difficulty should be a decision for the developers, not the gamers.
https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=241866&page=1
I have no interest in most of EA's games, so I don't really see the point. The ones I do care about I can just buy elsewhere cheaper in the long run. Not to mention that I don't like the idea of every major publisher setting up their own marketplaces with monthly fees.
sethnintendo said:
I pray to all the gods that this doesn't happen. I see no reason to pay money just to be able to play a game early. I see value in able to access the older games. EA might as well start hiding game modes behind their pay wall. |
It's not about paying to play a game early, it's about spending $5 to play a game you're interested in for 10 hours and then deciding afterwards if it warrants buying the full version.
There is no downside to this service... Spend $5 for a month of EA/Origin Access and play 10 hours of ME:A. If you like it, buy it for 10% off @ $53.99 or just be done with it. You can cancel the subscription either way.
Worst case senario you spent $5 to find out you don't want the game rather than spending $60 up front to get a game you don't like that you're stuck with.
Not to mention for those 30 days you have full access to the vault of games AND free trials to games like BF1.
I'm not here to promote EA, I'm just trying to help people understand that if they're on the fence about ME:A (like I was), there's an easy, potentially free, way to try the game out for 10 hours before making their decision.
I get it though, it's easier just to blindly hate it since it's not on PlayStation/Nintendo.
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