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[Puppet Shadow]

Activision doesn't do it, and EA stated it quite clearly:

"As we discontinue Online Pass for our new EA titles, we are also in the process of eliminating it from all our existing EA titles as well," Reseburg says. "We heard the feedback from players and decided to do away with Online Pass altogether."

So this fits right in with Sony's plans.

If DRM gets thrown back on, it won't be Sony that lied, it will be EA. Maybe Arthur Gies should wait to do an article about it if that ends up happening.

 

[Bunta]

Has this article been posted yet?

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/...on_Sonys_DRM_policies_No_more_online_pass.php

Gamasutra was able to speak to Scott Rohde, software product development head for Sony Worldwide Studios America to gain further clarity on the matter:

We've already come right out and said we're not going to allow online pass. And the word "allow" is key there. Specifically with online, with PS+ requiring a charge to play online, we would not want any publisher [to charge.]

In general, we're all businesses. Sony or Microsoft is never going to be able to tell EA or Activision exactly what they can do. What we like to say at PlayStation is that we set the precedent. The way we are approaching this is that we want this to be extremely consumer-friendly, extremely retailer-friendly, and extremely publisher-friendly. My personal opinion is that it's hard for me to believe that any major publisher is going to put an extra set of used DRM onto game titles because that wouldn't put them in a good spot, right?