EA Discontinues Its Online Pass Program

[23Barrettcity]

Why should I keep my servers up to support people who are not my customer?

But in what time frame does it make a difference who plays it ? It's like apple charging a fee to someone for buying a used iPhone for cheaper than they sell it . And saying oh you shouldn't get iOS updates and stuff the server will be up and used during a good portion of a popular games life cycle worrying about who's using the purchased game is greed plain and simple I'm not allowed to lend out or sell my "own" property ? It's similar to the system modding thing and this type of behavior will only hurt aaa big console sales in the future ( years in the future is a different story people probably would pay for keeping up the servers in order to play that game online) the best nondouchy ways to get extra money is the season pass system which if it has alot of cool content most people will buy , goty editions or lowering prices quicker and simply making the lower price the same as a used copy plus 10 dollars .

 

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[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

From a business stand point though, they make ZERO money off used games, and servers cost money to run. Its reasonable to make cheap skates pay a fee to get online and play multiplayer. a 5 dollar fee is reasonable. Gotta keep the industry alive

The overpriced games they charge us for should factor in those costs. People used to rent games finish and return them. Game purchases have never been higher... If they can't make a profit in this environment its their own fault.

 

[protestor]

Companies have a set period of time they expect a consumer to play a game online. It's how they schedule how many servers to have up. MS sold millions of copies of Halo 4 in the first month, there is no way in hell they would keep the server capacity for that many players throughout the lifetime of the game. When you sell your copy to another person they have to keep the servers up to account for those gamers but they received no compensation for them.

that makes zero sense. Whats the difference if the original person is playing or the person that bought the used game?

While were are speculating. What if nobody sold their copies, and everybody was still playing online after whatever the "life time of the game" has passed? Should companies start charging again because its passed the expected time the game should be played.

What if the original buyer traded the game in the first two weeks?

 

[infamousred]

now the only reason to buy games new is gone
i cant believe people will actually sit there and pay 60$ for a new game..you wait two weeks and the shiit is usually down to 40$ already.
i remember when i was once a fool too...used games all the way

 

[Jax]

They're going the COD season pass way, which is fair but they're gonna rape people on content, gonna strip the games as much as they can so they can bring up sweet DLC's...
So no more season pass on madden and fifa, etc too?

 

[Darth Nubian]

That shyt just prevented people from buying the game at all. Which lowered their doritos and old spice money ad monies.

 

[23Barrettcity]

that makes zero sense. Whats the difference if the original person is playing or the person that bought the used game?

While were are speculating. What if nobody sold their copies, and everybody was still playing online after whatever the "life time of the game" has passed? Should companies start charging again because its passed the expected time the game should be played.

What if the original buyer traded the game in the first two weeks?

Exactly niccas sell mill +copies and complaining about keeping servers up that they had to keep up anyway

 

[HigherLiving]

the online pass was a retarded idea anyway.

 

[Rayzah]

it wasnt cause they complained its cause no one buys that bullshyt

same thing

 

[Jax]

When is this in full effect? got some games to buy.

 

[mozichrome]

does this address the micro-transactions stuff they got planned

or theres been no more talk of that?

 

[Rain]

What fukkery do they have in store to replace it brehs

No need for replacement fukkery on EA's part if next gen consoles don't play used games at all....

Ding ding ding. We have a winner folks

Now to see if Sony follows MS path

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[Plexxx]

now the online pass doesnt sound so bad

 

[B86]

Ding ding ding. We have a winner folks

Now to see if Sony follows MS path

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I already seen the BS coming from both companies.

But what I win? Besides lack of motivation to buy either console? PS4 didn't give me a reason to buy.....MS didn't give a reason to buy.....I'm sure I'll still buy both cuz I'm a "dumb ass consumer", but I really have no reason to be excited about either