Oh I know! lol, unless they were convinced they would get a TON of casual gamers that don't typically buy more than one game a year.

Well the thing is I would probably only get the Nintendo one, not the others (I'd just buy their individual get when I want them).

Also I used to be physical only, then hybrid, but now I'm digital only. It's simply too convenient, quick, and tramsport friendly. Not to mention you don't have e to worry about missing or damaged games then.

Is there anyone that buys a Nintendo console today that doesn't buy one Nintendo game a year? I'd bet that's less than 5% of Switch owners, and that's probably generous.

And not just buying deliberately and consciously the games you really want.

Gamer consumer logic.

Did anyone really say that? Or did they say the nonsense fear mongering that lots of people had about EA Access was far fetched? Because those people were saying that if EA Access was a success, then suddenly every publisher would have it. Well it's like a whole console generation later, EA Access is a success, and now maybe potentially one other pub is rumored to have a similar service maybe potentially probably. Seems the people doubting the fear mongering were exactly right.

Furthermore at the end of the day if its like EA Access, you're talking about an incredible value for gamers. The horror!!!1!1

Well, as anyone who didn't just use it for ammo against Sony knew, they were just waiting for EA to nail the important one, PS. Now, Sony has no good reason to not allow the others. In 5 years time, we'll have Activision, Besthesda, THQ Nordic, Focus Home, etc joining the party.

Lol, boy, are some people eating crow, now.

Double post.

Yes, because the month after Netflix started operating there were 10 copycats already right? Didn't took over a decade for it to become spreading like today and will get even more spread in the near future.

Are you referring to the Netflix DVD by mail business model, or the streaming model? Because neither were original and neither took years for “copycats” to emerge. The idea for Netflix itself was the founders wanting to “copycat” Amazon.

What you’re referring to is simply the progression of technology, making it even sillier for people to whine about the potential damaging effects of EA Access.

You were one of those people making a big deal about it IIRC. If your doomsday predictions were accurate we’d have seen Ubisoft Access years ago. Plus Activision Plus. And Konami Unlimited, etc etc. Look how quick pubs are to copy other revenue streams like microtransactions and season pass and battle pass etc.

Of course the difference here is EAA is an amazing value if you’re into EA games. So basically people complaining about the service are just afraid of change. They’re the old people in the retail store yelling about how phones used to be so simple and asking why we need 4K.

Subscribe if you enjoy the games, or don’t. It doesn’t make a difference to how you experience the games currently. There’s nothing predatory about EA Access.

Making a big deal? No, making the right call out that this type of service can evolve to worse situations.

Just like the increase on streaming services (fine of you to deny that streaming have been increasing the number of services and each is losing value because of it). And the great number of exclusive shows or movies on each service have started putting people back to pirating since they won't sub to a service to watch a single show or movie. Or worse have 10 subs because they like 10 different shows one in each sub. This will be worse than cable tv real fast.