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EA Discontinues Controversial Online Passes

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Admiral Derpy Hooves:
http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/15/ea-kills-its-controversial-online-pass-program/

Finally EA makes a move that makes people happy. Maybe the won't win the worst company of the year award three times in a row.

Discuss EA's questionable business practices and this good news.

N-Sunderland:
I find it plain sad that this is the point the video game industry has come to. When I buy the game, I expect to get what I paid for. I shouldn't have to make a second payment for any of the game's features. How companies like Microsoft get away with crap like this is beyond me. Know what's worse? Capcom's disk-locked content. It's already on the damn disk, yet you have to pay for it to unlock it, as if it was downloadable content? It's depressing.

Admiral Derpy Hooves:

--- Quote from: N-Sunderland on May 16, 2013, 05:05:45 pm ---I find it plain sad that this is the point the video game industry has come to. When I buy the game, I expect to get what I paid for. I shouldn't have to make a second payment for any of the game's features. How companies like Microsoft get away with crap like this is beyond me. Know what's worse? Capcom's disk-locked content. It's already on the damn disk, yet you have to pay for it to unlock it, as if it was downloadable content? It's depressing.

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Well in EA's defense.

The online passes at their base concept are not such a bad idea. If you buy a game used from a retailer or friend they as a publisher don't get any profit from the sale. Then they proceed to lose money paying to run the server to allow you access to online play.

I think where EA went wrong was not just that they made the online pass to counter this. They made it to turn a profit at the inconvenience of the consumer.

However I completely agree with the disc locked content. Partly the reason why EPIC GAMES has lost my business after GoW 3.

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