EA announces Origin Access 4.99/month

[the-pi-guy]

                            Origin: Powered by EA | Origin Games
                   

[Xevross]

Oh good.

Actually that might be worth paying a couple of months for to play DA: O and DA II again

[Legend]

So identical to XBO thing but for PC?

[Xevross]

So identical to XBO thing but for PC?

Looks like it

[BasilZero]

I got most of those games on Origin already thanks to Humble bundle and On the house promotion.

Hopefully this doesnt mean the end for the promotion !

[DerNebel]

Wait, so they just make a seperate service for PC instead of bringing over EA Access? What a load of bull is this?

I stand by my opinion that I never want to pay any publisher a subscription service though anyway.

[BasilZero]

Wait, so they just make a seperate service for PC instead of bringing over EA Access? What a load of bull is this?

I stand by my opinion that I never want to pay any publisher a subscription service though anyway.

Its practically the same service minus one or two games.

They just renamed it to "Origin" Access since its on their Origin platform.

They are more than likely gonna end On the house promotions as well which is sad.

I also agree with not paying subscription to any publisher. blergh to such practices.

[kitler53]

psnow is such a better deal on a monthly cost per available library assessment.   that and psnow gets more games regularly not just once every few months. 

[DerNebel]

Its practically the same service minus one or two games.

They just renamed it to "Origin" Access since its on their Origin platform.

They are more than likely gonna end On the house promotions as well which is sad.

I also agree with not paying subscription to any publisher. blergh to such practices.

I find it so interesting how people are celebrating this so easily, I simply can't look past the potential future possibilities this might entail, with other publishers possibly jumping on that bandwaggon and then someday realizing that "Hey, we can get way more people to subscribe to this if we lock some game content behind it". The moment when certain game types or mission etc. become locked behind some freaking publisher specific service or whatever, might actually be the point when I'm legitimately done with gaming, cause I'm not putting up with that shame.

PS+ is a perfect example of a service that at one point just brought cool bonuses to subscribers, but that now locks an important gameplay feature behind its subscription to get more people on board, I'm annoyed enough at that, but least that's platform based and not publisher, imagine you'd have to have a publisher specific subscription every time you want to play multiplayer in a game. No thank you.

[BasilZero]

I find it so interesting how people are celebrating this so easily, I simply can't look past the potential future possibilities this might entail, with other publishers possibly jumping on that bandwaggon and then someday realizing that "Hey, we can get way more people to subscribe to this if we lock some game content behind it". The moment when certain game types or mission etc. become locked behind some freaking publisher specific service or whatever, might actually be the point when I'm legitimately done with gaming, cause I'm not putting up with that shame.

PS+ is a perfect example of a service that at one point just brought cool bonuses to subscribers, but that now locks an important gameplay feature behind its subscription to get more people on board, I'm annoyed enough at that, but least that's platform based and not publisher, imagine you'd have to have a publisher specific subscription every time you want to play multiplayer in a game. No thank you.

Yep completely agree especially with the last paragraph.