EA Getting Rid of Online Passes?

[01toubib]

Sorry if this is late. Just found out about it now, but is it really true? Has EA actually listened to it's customers for once? Or is this just a stunt since they know the future consoles might have something similar built in for online gaming?

http://kotaku.com/ea-getting-rid-of-onl ... Socialflow

[Cronozilla]

They probably saw that either sales numbers didn't move or went down, meaning the used sales likely didn't hurt them as much as they thought.

It's sort of the enemy you want, not the one you have, I guess. Publishers really liked talking shit about used games, but it's ignoring a large portion of ecosystem.

However, I wouldn't be surprised if they just brought over what they did on PC, where a single copy is locked to an account.

[Raiiban]

However, I wouldn't be surprised if they just brought over what they did on PC, where a single copy is locked to an account.

This is the direction I think they're heading. All games, Console, PC, whatever will have a mandatory one time use code to tie to game license to an EA Origin Account. Afterwards it may or may not have a mandatory one time online check in when the game is played or just straight up always online whether it's single or multi-player. Likely EA customers will have a brief reprieve between now and when a new system like this is put in place, maybe shortly after the next generation of consoles are released.

It's good to get rid of an anti-consumer DRM, but I don't think EA would ever do something good for the sake of being good.

[CRTGAMER]

However, I wouldn't be surprised if they just brought over what they did on PC, where a single copy is locked to an account.

This is the direction I think they're heading. All games, Console, PC, whatever will have a mandatory one time use code to tie to game license to an EA Origin Account.

It's good to get rid of an anti-consumer DRM, but I don't think EA would ever do something good for the sake of being good.

I don't thing the DRM is going away. EA is dropping the pass for purchasers of used games. All this does is kill support of the 2nd hand market since the game code was already authenticated by the initial owner.