Patrick Soderlund, head of EA Games label has told Venture Beat that the company is pursuing the idea of introducing subscription based services for some of its forthcoming games. Activision has already attempted something similar with Call of Duty Elite, and EA games could follow the same path.
“I think it’s fair to say that we’re looking at that. Like all other companies, we’re looking at how we can maximise our investment in this and get the most out of our investment and get more people playing this product. That may take us to different places, but we’re not really talking about where that is yet.”
not first.
Haha guess I was wrong. Anyways gotta prepare the battlestations for the haters that are bound to reply. Oh and I won’t do this again. This is my first and last time.
Putting “Not First” when you are first is the sign you are a yellow-bellied cowardous fuck, whose balls are so small, they are consumed by flies before we have a chance to step on them.
Have the balls to say “first”, so we can kick the bloody hell out of them when you are wrong. Then, at least, you can drop to the floor screaming like a man.
Yes I’m mad bro. (not furious, just regular mad)
^this
The fail is strong in this one.
Oh nooooo! Not subscriptions! Worst thing they’ve ever invented. Dx
They can count me out. I already don’t care for their games, so this is at least a reason for me to not reconsider. Thanks EA for making the decision easy.
Would you do it for Dead Space?
I wouldn’t. Don’t wanna pay monthly to get the crap scared outta me.
then don’t get married…lol
This was pro lulz
Great, I can’t wait.
Fuck everything!
This hammers the last nail in EA’s coffin for me.
so you are completely done with a brand because they are considering a subscription model for some of there games. that makes a ton of sense.
To be fair, I’ve never cared for most of the games they publish, save for a few.
“Maximize our investments, take is different places…” blah blah blah, all I heard was “Let’s see how we can suck more money out of our loyal gamers”
it worked with microsoft and xbox live… maybe EA can pull it off too lol
Subscriptions are not a good idea for normal games. Maybe for MMORPGs, but not for regular games.
I think subscriptions could work well with games that support DLC. That way people wouldn’t have to pay so much for stuff that probably wasn’t truly deserving of the money. But with a subscription, all of that extra content can be all-inclusive.
If I payed $60 for a bunch of map packs, I’d want to still be able to play those maps in 4 years without having to continue to pay.
If I payed 60 bucks I wouldnt want to spend another extra 60 bucks for something that is already encoded on the disc.
Yea right I’m not paying to play online ill just play offline before I pay for online
Any game with a recurring subscription is one less that I’ll play.
I MIGHT buy an all-access pass for all future DLC… but that’s a big “Might”.
And the cows go Mooooooo
Good to know EA get all their vitamins with how much they milk their customers :P
They want an overdose of VITAmins to the looks of this news.
This sounds like an awful idea.
Leave luck to heaven.
My thoughts exactly
Yeh, because paying forty quid isnt enough.
I can agree with fees for games like WoW etc, but standard console games?
I also do not agree with games that ask you to pay forty odd quid and THEN a monthly fee to actually play it…
I can’t even do that haha, I’d rather buy Guild Wars, might be worse or better in your opinions, but at least I only pay once.
No thanks EA, you dissapoint.
No thank you EA. I think this would mostly be for sports games though or maybe a game like Battlefield.
I am soooo against this idea. I wont be supporting EA if they really go thru this crap. What the gaming world is coming to huh?
Get N or get OUT!!!!
ugh. people need to drop all the subscription service crap already
If more games start Sub’s then I simply wont Sub.
Modern Warfare 3 (Black Ops also was due to have subs but it was moved for MW3) started subs because IW brought in Beachhead Studeos and yet… MONEY!
I’m fine if EA makes game which are buy and you can still play but you get DLC’s and stuff quicker with Subs. Just like with MW3.
I’m assuming this would be for the likes of Battlefield, Medal of Honur, Fifa, Madden etc.
But really. Most other games these days. How many people are still playing them after a month? Most people will have them finished within a few days. And if they’re gonna have to pay after the first month? Oops. There it goes to the pre-owned pile.
Ok.
Once people play XBL, they pay to use it.
EA now wants to say, “NOW YOU HAVE TO PAY TO USE THAT GAME! I DON’T CARE YOU PAY MONEY FOR XBL! I WANT MOAR OF YOUR MONEY! I’M GOING TO CHARGE YOU $10 TO PLAY A 2ND HAND GAME ONLINE! MOAR MONEY RIGHT NOW!
So we have to pay for EA’s stuff and then a subscription on top of that just to access content. That sounds like a pretty stupid idea. Who’s ideology was it to “think” of something like this?
EA you do this and you will probably make half the investment, even though you’re “trying” to maximize.
Nope, EA produce quality and they produce shit, depends on which game, love Dead Space, but they made one of the worst monstrositys in current gaming history…Boogie.
FUCK you call of duty!! we want original games like super mario or sonic etc!!!!
ea don’t make call of duty, egit.
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