Is that necessarily a bad thing? I get that some people here might not be into EA because of SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS but what about (Insert your favorite developer here)? If you enjoy a particular devs games enough to the point that you'll probably buy all of their games new, then $30 a year for a 10% discount for each, early access to the games, plus year old games for "free" (with your subscription cost) sounds like a pretty good deal.
And what happens when all publishers do this? What happens when competitive multiplayer games have early access? I mean, you can say we're not forced into it but that's kind of a fallacious sentiment once this becomes the norm.
To be fair, this is nothing new. I can remember playing against Day[9] in the Warcraft III Beta.
I don't see the edge a person gets from early mp access as being a big deal. There will always be a gap between the mgl420snipez crowd and everyone else anyways.
Put down for a month to play BF4 until Destiny hits (gave away my disc copy). At first it only offered me the discount and I was confused, the I realized I had to uninstall the disc one and reinstall the download version. Plan to check out Peggle 2 as well. It auto renews so I set a calendar reminder to cancel before next month. You can manage the sub via the Xbox Settings page though.
I put down for a month too. I figured I'd give the service a try and play some football/soccer/peggle while I wait for Destiny and NHL 15. The service will give me 10% off the purchase of NHL 15 and then I'll probably cancel if I find I'm not getting much use out of the Vault games. It really depends on if I find it worthwhile. I could just as easily resub for a year if they announce anything interesting.
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Their Origin efforts right now boil down to "We will give you free games please please please please use Origin"
Is that necessarily a bad thing? I get that some people here might not be into EA because of SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS but what about (Insert your favorite developer here)? If you enjoy a particular devs games enough to the point that you'll probably buy all of their games new, then $30 a year for a 10% discount for each, early access to the games, plus year old games for "free" (with your subscription cost) sounds like a pretty good deal.
To be fair, this is nothing new. I can remember playing against Day[9] in the Warcraft III Beta.
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