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EA kills its Online Pass program
- Thread starter Takao
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Demoncarnotaur
Member
Wait.. what? Thats awesome, but what?
Orochinagis
Member
^ More like it would point out no used games for the nex gen.
Quadraphonic
Member
Steam needs competition.
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/05/ea-kills-online-pass/
Second article I've seen now that mentions Activision has used online pass. Can someone point me to these mysterious Activision games that have an online pass?
Second article I've seen now that mentions Activision has used online pass. Can someone point me to these mysterious Activision games that have an online pass?
Quadraphonic
Member
First result for "Activision Online Pass"
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/activision-reveals-first-online-pass/090504
Prototype 2 Radnet access.
But that barely counts. It's more of a first-print perk than anything else.
Hopefully Sony takes action and removes it. I purchase most of my games new anyways (with the exception of the only 2 games i ever bought used being Demon's Souls and Pokemon Stadium 1) but I've seen some ridiculous sales on used titles and it holds me back on picking up certain games because no online pass is a $10 difference.
Ah, ok. That doesn't seem too bad compared to withholding access to multiplayer of other online passes at least.
Rogue_Ledr
Banned
Yeah, Sony definitely should be the best one to adopt this approach.
Activision is the surprisingly lesser evil when it comes to online passes, especially given the popularity of the Call of Duty brand and how much its shared and distributed in Used Game sales on local classifieds.
I guess they don't mind and prefer having free access for brand strength or something.
Liquidsnake
Banned
That's the first thing I thought.
CrunchyFrog
Member
and we're done here
GayForMaster
Banned
"We were voted the worst company in the world and thus have decided to do away with online-passes."
Gawd, I hope not.
I'm pretty much settled on PS4, nut Bioware being next-box exclusive would cause me to go MS in a heartbeat.
Sony. And given next-gen fears the reaction probably COULD be worse, though it might just be another homerun for a lot of people.
Interfectum
Gold Member
EA doesn't need online passes on services like Origin and Steam.
EA cancels online passes right as new consoles come out.
Hmmmmmmm
Hmmmmmmmmmmm
EA cancels online passes right as new consoles come out.
Hmmmmmmm
Hmmmmmmmmmmm
Photolysis
Banned
While I don't trust EA much, I'm glad to hear this. And if they've cancelled it because of market forces, then they might not replace it with something equally shitty.
What was that patented DRM tech for PS4?
Rogue_Ledr
Banned
Yeah, the timing does seem a bit ........... ominous.
Interfectum
Gold Member
EA could just put Origin on every EA console game, have a one time use serial number for every game they sell (just like a PC game) and boom, used game sales destroyed without any need for PS4 or Xbox 3 DRM tech.
Cautiously positive about this but waiting to hear more about PS4/Nextbox and DRM/access restriction options for publishers like EA before I take this as unconditional surrender.
Still not buying anymore of their games on PC though until Origin improves further (or goes the same way)
Still not buying anymore of their games on PC though until Origin improves further (or goes the same way)
Freshmaker
I am Korean.
Every publisher needing a client is annoying and stupid.
vagabondarts
Member
This right here
VeryGooster
Banned
Golden Poo Awards 2014: For your consideration...
Oxnard Montalvo
Member
This is too good to be true...there has to be a catch right?!?
Clockwork5
Member
They must really want to get rid of that "Worst Company in the World" honor they have recieved the past two years.
FinalFanXtreme
Member
This is proof that systems will be online only... :|
Nope. PS4 is already confirmed not to be online-only (and so is NextBox???).
On the other hand, apparently publishers can require online connection, or some sort cd-key system.
EA games on PS4 will probably be online only, while other publishers might not decide to go that route.
This. Ever played the sims lately? It's disgusting
Yup.
I know i will avoid online only games no matter how interesting they might be, unless they're MMOs like Destiny (for whom online-only is perfectly natural and reasonable).
TOM f'N CRUISE
Member
i still cant play BF3...
test_account
XP-39C²
The thing that I personally want to go away is the "You need to log in with an EA account to play online" message, where I always press cancel, no, fuck you on principle.
Online pass in itself is not even that terrible.
But if we need to kill EA online passes to kill EA accounts, so be it.
Online pass in itself is not even that terrible.
But if we need to kill EA online passes to kill EA accounts, so be it.
What? Origin is probably the 2nd best DD platform out there. It completely destroys Uplay and GFWL.
The only place where it matters is on enthusiast message boards. In the real world, though, nah, doesn't matter.
GOG?
GOG doesn't really compete with the rest of the DD platforms, they have their own niche. There's some overlap with indie games and CDProjekts stuff, but the main focus for GOG is still like the name implies, good old games.
