Rumor: EA Sports Planning Annual Subscription Service

[DrunkWithPower]

How exactly would a subscription benefit from the customers stand point on a yearly throw away game? Cheaper/exclusive DLC would be more for a Call of Duty system. I don't think too many people go crazy over EA Sports DLC.

Edit: Of course I'm not naive, but I'd think they would give a grand illusion to lure people to sign up.

 

[Cgull]

If it was some form of system that 'rewarded' subscribers with superfluous items (funny hats, shiny footballs etc.) instead of something game critical then I have no issue with it in any possible way. I highly doubt that would be the case though, which is a little disheartening.

I'm also a little confused by those who like to tear a strip off of sports fans who buy the yearly updates, especially the generalisation that this subset of gamers (and any opinion they express) is somehow less worthy than others solely based on their buying habits (and possibly on a grossly misrepresentive stereotype). I buy them, specifically FIFA and Tiger Woods, and I enjoy them. What more justification does a gamer ever need?

 

[CoverYourHead]

They're already charging people 60 bucks for a yearly roster update, now they want monthly money for... this? I'd say it'd be a good deal if, say, you payed the subscription your roster would update and you'd get all the new courses/fields/whatever, so you could just, say, but Madden 12 and have that update forever and ever thus negating the need to pump out a new Madden game every year. But this plan just sound ridiculous.

If this leaks into my Mass Effects, I shall not be pleased.

 

[AngryFrenchCanadian]

Well, thanks God I hate sports titles. Also, this might actually get people to buy these stupid games.

 

[Awexsome]

So... wait.

It started off like a subscription just to play their online games like in most MMOs, but I was getting the impression that from all that description that it was just kinda like an "EA club" where you could pay regularly for discounts and extra features. Like the publisher's club here.

Agreed that EA isn't the most trustworthy one with DLC but unless it's "pay regularly to play our games online" then I don't see it as bad. I sure won't be getting it but not effecting my game's quality.

 

[ryo02]

havent read the article
havent read the comments

let me take a guess .... they want to leech more money out of people?

 

[SextusMaximus]

Bye bye EA Sports, can't wait till your studio gets taken down because of this.

Arsehats.

 

[RA92]

Why not just make people not buy the same game every year by shutting down servers, and just make them pay annual subscription fees to maintain the servers and keep your pouch jingling?

Just a thought.

 

[Art Axiv]

Funny thing is, I keep trying to avoid EA games...
*looks at his shelf, notices most of them have an EA logo on them*
*sigh*

 

[dragongit]

Doesn't EA already have an anual Subscription fee? Oh, my mistake. they simply just put another year in the title. Totally different.

 

[shadowform]

I thought that playing the Madden games was already a $60 a year subscription?

 

[whaleswiththumbs]

(haven't read all the article)
I think the business plan will work like this:
you sign up, and it is $60 a year and you get one sports game free that year. Add another game for the low price of $59.99. And so on. But these are not games, per-say, they are updates to previous parts of the game, including rosters, and possible new mechanics.

Oh wait...

 

[Sean Strife]

This would be one thing if they weren't gonna release the game every year and just let it be stat updates released as DLC, then I might not have too many complaints... but if they're gonna still release the games every year, then I'm sorry: that's just pitiful and fuck EA for that if this winds up being true.

 

[Keybladeking57]

I'm sorry but people are SHOCKED by crap like this from a publisher? Sure it's despicable and all, Heck I don't like it either, But i'm not shocked either....

 

[The Lost Big Boss]

Its only a rumor, but if it true then EA (Sports) is on my black list along with Ubisoft and Activision.

 

[Lt. Vinciti]

I thought that playing the Madden games was already a $60 a year subscription?

This.

It's not like they change these games....perhaps you could get away with it if every Madden 20xx was an expansion to Madden 2011....but its the same shit stamped out w/ some already millionaire jerkoff on the cover and the year added to it...

 

[cardinalwiggles]

see here's my idea, how about a subscription service that amounts to the amount u wanna pay for a a game, and say pay 40 quick a year for subscription gives you access to a selected amount of titles from their libary including fifa, madden, nba ones. and then their special qualities that the above subscription offers.

i am far and away not paying a subscription service to them for 15 dollers and MORE as well as forking over 40 quid per game ontop of that i need more for my money and it just seems like its not going to bother.

big fifa fan here and i usually buy every year, but if they force this subscription to access some of those needed features then well, i personally won't bother