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Gamespot: EA's New Empire = An Interview with Peter Moore
- Thread starter StarBlazers1
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Yeah. For you its not worth.Its you opinion. And i totally agree with you & respect your Choice. But i really like EA games & i have a PS4. I dont have another 350$ to spend on XBOXONE. So as you said its a nice feature to have on PS4. some may like it. some may dont. Just like PS+ . if its on PS4 i'd definitely get a subscription just to play Battlefield & Need For speed & Dragon age.
This is categorically NOT true. Do you just make things up as you type them? Titanfall on XONE is VERY well populated. I played just last night (check my GT for proof) and it took seconds to find full lobby's for every mode I played.
Since it was put in EA Access the game is booming.
Do you play Titanfall? I am guessing the answer is no and that you don't own an XONE.
You mean the chump change they pay the bluray association in which there are 20 companies that include Microsoft?
Still trying to figure out how a few timed exclusives have anything to do with Sony saying no.
AnthonypUK
Member
No he means the portion of every EA game sale the platform holders get that goes to Sony.
What does that mean?
Won't Sony still get platform royalty/revenue from EA if they allow Access on the PS4?
I'm sure he cries himself to sleep in his giant mansion.
Brutuspedia
Member
I don't care for annual sports games and there's nothing great from EA this gen besides Garden Warfare, so for me, on PS4, makes no difference for now.
Maybe next year...
Maybe next year...
Telltale sign of a breakaway success, since it's free people play it.
How is it on PC?
Errrm ok....
Did you read the very last line of my post?
I actually said it's better for the service to be on PS4 but I myself won't use it.
I have no idea, but we aren't discussing PC. This is a thread about EA Access on XONE and PS4. What has PC got to do with our discussion?
People are playing it because it is an incredible game. It sold over 3 million copies at retail on a new platform that had just launched.
Tal Shiar Agent
Member
I don't like Games as a Service and I don't like paying for demos, so I'm glad EA Access isn't getting the full market share.
Pseudo judo
Member
That Game Spot piece was poor journalism. Anybody who has been paying attention knows that the issue here lies with Sony and not EA, so the interviewer either hasn't done their homework or they are willfully producing negative spin .
No wonder Moore sounds annoyed.
Were talking about Titanfall,
It's not. This is a thread about a Gamespot interview with Peter Moore of which EA Access is one part.
Please do your research before posting things like this. Titanfall is not dead on XBOXONE. The only reason people kinda moved on coz they didnt have many modes or weapons when the game releasing. Its fixed now , They already made all DLC free also. Lots of people are still play Titanfall.
Back to square one then. It is possible one publisher has better relationship with one platform holder than another. It is possible EA offered different terms to each.
This thread has been merged with another it would seem. The original one we were discussing in, was about the EA Access comments that Peter Moore made, starting with post #54 in this new merged thread.
The OP in the original thread even basically still just talks about the EA Access comments as well. Post #1
Before it was put into EA Access the game was nearly dead online. I remember, I tried to play it a little while back and the population was very low. Obviously now more people are playing because it's free to all EA Access subscribers but it was not in a good place earlier.
Are you being intentionally obtuse?
Is it really so hard to grasp that some people would like to have access to the service on their PS4's
AnthonypUK
Member
they probably won't, since you won't have to buy any of the games on Ea access they'll be free, and the subscription money goes straight to EA.
I'm been trying to think of reasons why sony wouldn't want this deal, because their "value for consumers" line is bullshit.
Its probably because they have to pay to have it on their system maybe?, and then they don't get their split on sales of the EA access games maybe? the only reason sony wouldn't have it on their system is money.
I don't think different terms, i do think the relationship does play a part in it, its why the COd deal made sense, sony have been cosying up to activision plenty the last 18 months with diablo UEE , Destiny and COD.
Sony's with EA has been less so,i can only think of Battlefront and hardline deals they had, hardline sony really stopped pushing and has been theorised here disney's relationship with sony probably got star wars one, while Microsoft has had at least 3 timed/full exclusive games with EA, marketing with madden, fifa, and dragon age + timed DLC and probably more.
I think money + relationship is why it not on PS4.
DryvBy
Member
I think it's because (from what I can remember from that thread) this would be bad if more developers did their own service like this. Instead of getting Ubi/EA/Acti games on PS+, you'd have a per month service for every company out there if the company wanted which would cheapen the PS+ benefit.
Something like that. Or people just believe EA will lock people into a service and then quit delivering goods.
But... you're not paying for demos....
You're paying for full access to a vault of games and on top of that you can play the full version of games without buying them for a set number of hours before they release.
NippleViking
Banned
Uhh... What? Please elaborate, as unless I'm ignorant, this is utter crap. It almost seems to me that you recognize you're unable to find fair criticism, so instead you're turning to vague
'apparent-lys' and 'mights' to obscure the reality of Access, which is that it is unmistakably a fantastic deal if EA's library interests you.
If it's part of the service, you are paying for it.
The demos are a nice side dish but the games in the vault are the main course.
True if PS+ (as well as GwG) would offer AAA retail games within 6-9 months after release for 30 $ per year.
We are now almost 2 years in and haven´t seen a single one.
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JoJo UK
Unconfirmed Member
There is an EA Access app but all discounts/vault games/etc/ will be highlighted as such in the normal XB1 store (including web store, smartglass app, etc).
EDIT: Some of the tinfoil hat comments are amazing.
What shady stuff, not being sarcastic I really want to know as I would prefer to not pay for a shady service.
Sony said no. EA Access not going on PS4 had nothing to do with 'money and relationship'. Why do people no want to believe that, a Sony rep came out and said;
Is there other information out there which states the opposite or is the 'money and relationship' thing just guess work?
Not everyone can do this. Only few Publishers like Activtion, Ubisoft. Thing is, PS+ is really sucks on PS4. Its like Indie game + . I only saw like 2 or 3 AAA games that came to PS+ on PS4. Like INJUSTICE & Infamous first light & MGS Ground zeroes. All other PS4 games are mostly indies. We still didnt saw Ubisoft, Activtion, EA, Square games PS4 games on PS+. So i guess i'd love to have a Subscription service for every major publisher i guess. If its worth like EA acess, i'll buy it, if it doesnt i dont buy it. I can buy their games i like on retail discs anyway. We as consumers need to decide what we wont. We dont need Sony making decisions for US.
Catatafish
Banned
Lol what are you talking about?, " maybe they will learnb from this next gen". This is business, not some highschool drama.
Catatafish
Banned
Another proof of how valuable is EA Access as a service.
That's like criticizing the price of a meal because you're paying for your drink too.
The only thing shady is Sony's reasoning for not allowing EA Access.
Neuromancer
Member
It's a direct competitor to their own subscription service, and its existence undercuts the potential value of their own subscription service. It makes complete sense to me.
PdotMichael
Banned
It's not part of the PS service and won't come to it. There isn't much to discuss about it outside of fanboy rants.
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Deleted member 47027
Unconfirmed Member
Not a fan of having options?
BleedOrange
Banned
Didn't Sony ban this from the PS4 and then lie to us about it not being a value?
BleedOrange
Banned
Why would what Sony wants ever matter to the end consumer? Unless you're an investor in Sony this should strike you as an overt anti-consumer move only perpetrated to protect corporate interests.
That isn't what's shady, what's shady is that their official reasoning is that they determined that it doesn't hold good value for their customers.
I honestly have no problem with them protecting their own interests, they are a business after all.
It would have been better to have said nothing than what they commented with.
TheRealTalker
Banned
I remember there was some backlash by consumers that EA access wouldn't be on the PS4 because of Sony saying no
quite frankly though the same people who were upset (that I know of) and some others currently don't care anymore.... of course there are likely still some who would want the service but overlying craving for it or having a large demand for it on the PS userbase has died down
quite frankly though the same people who were upset (that I know of) and some others currently don't care anymore.... of course there are likely still some who would want the service but overlying craving for it or having a large demand for it on the PS userbase has died down
Do your research, Titanfall was going to be canned if it weren't for MS.
Just because there isn't a thread every day about it doesn't mean there wouldn't be huge demand for it if they announced it.
Plus, Sony actually declined that too... making the whole point kinda hilarious.
Tal Shiar Agent
Member
So, you pay for demos.
Not a fan of games treated as a service rather than a product. Unless a product actually kills people, companies usually can't recall them. You own that product, despite what the license agreement says. When games become a service they no longer have any value. No longer do you own a game, you now actually license it (one of the reasons I always choose physical over digital when possible) and that can be rescinded and taken away from you with little notice, despite paying the same as if you'd bought a physical product.
It's anti-consumer.
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Deleted member 47027
Unconfirmed Member
So, you don't like having options then.
TBiddy
Member
No, you pay for full access to a wide variety of games.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EA_Access
I can certainly see where you're coming from with this. But you need to remember that this service is primarily for "older" games. If you wish to play FIFA 16 from the start, you need to buy it, simple as that. If you can wait 6 months (or whatever the period is), you can keep paying the 5USD/month and play some of the other games in the vault.
It's fantastic value for money.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
Unless all EA games stop appearing from PS+ ever and get no more PS+ discounts... which would happen for sure and then see every big publisher having the same program on every console.... and PC.
Reality that its not coming has sit in. Also the fact that it was Sony who chose not to allow EA Access and not "EA" put the warriors in a difficult position. They started taking strange position why Sony was right to not even offer it as an option for its users. Very interesting threads back then.
Tal Shiar Agent
Member
So, you aren't interested in having an adult discussion about this then. Gotcha.
The 10 hour preview is probably the biggest marketing point of EA Access. Regardless of other things included, you are still paying to access a demo. Something that used to be fairly standard and free.
Yes, it is mostly older games but that doesn't change the fact that these games get devalued in a really weird way. Instead of pricing the actual games in accordance with their actual value, we see games staying at the same price for far longer than they should be. There is still the issue of losing access.
I frankly don't understand why EA Access needs to exist outside of purely for profit. Thus it's anti-consumer.