EA's Unlimited Game Subscription Service is Finally Coming To the PS4 this July

EA Access -- Electronic Arts' unlimited game subscription service that lets players access a massive library of EA games -- is finally coming to the PlayStation 4 this July, almost five years after it launched on the Xbox One. From a report: Like the current Xbox offering, EA Access for the PS4 costs either $4.99 per month or $29.99 per year. In addition to unlimited access to EA's vault of games, Access also comes with other perks, including a 10 percent discount on full-priced EA game purchases as well as early trials of upcoming EA games. EA Access for PS4 will be a separate account from EA Access for Xbox One. So if you're already paying for Access on your Xbox, you will have to pay a second monthly fee to play those games on your PS4.

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[Calydor]

I was wondering if it was possible to sign up, try out all their titles in a month, figure out which ones you want to actually play, buy them with the 10% off, then cancel the subscription.

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[smallfries]

Yes it all works fine. Cancel whenever you want, runs to the end of the billing period. I dip and out of it on the PC depending on what I’m playing.

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[Computershack]

Doesn't really matter.

Most of EA's titles are pay to win. .

Apart from Battlefield 1, Battlefield V, Star Wars Battlefront II, Titanfall/2 etc all on EA Access.

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[Agret]

With the exception of Battlefront 2 none of those games are pay to win as the only microtransactions (outside of DLC season passes which are just a few maps&weapons) are cosmetics. Battlefront 2 is the game that tied your gameplay progression directly to RNG loot boxes although it was later entirely rebalanced and now the loot boxes are just cosmetics after a huge backlash from gamers about that stupid decision.

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[nitehawk214]

I remember when you didn't have to pay for demos.

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[Calydor]

I don't remember ever having to not pay for full version demos.

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[Agret]

It certainly is possible to do this, I did it on PC after signing up for Origin Access to get early access to the Battlefield V beta. I downloaded all of the Need for Speed games and ended up buying the newest one titled Need for Speed (a reboot) and Hot Pursuit (the reboot not the original) before cancelling my service.

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[jellomizer]

Subscription services are fine. But please give us the options to own, and resell.

There use to be joy in having a Box copy, that after you are done with the game, you could package up and resell on eBay or just at a garage sale.

Digital Downloads are getting rid of wealth. So back in the day I could had owned a hundred DVD's, but once I had enough of them, I could sell them and get some cash back. Not this isn't an investment plan that will make you rich, because you will normally buy the DVD for more the

Games, MFC, and ARM device lockdown

[tepples]

When running open source software there is little need to run closed source hardware like intel

First, the featured article is about video games, and video games are far less likely to be free software than software used by a company to run its internal business, such as a code library or an office suite or a web browser. There's not quite as much return on investment in paying someone to contribute to a free video game as there is in paying someone to contribute to a free business tool. Over the years, other Slashdot users have expressed an opinion that because nobody seems to be able to think up a b

Just as EA fails

[Kohath]

PlayStation was better off without it. EA has had a long string of high profile failures.

NBA Live, Star Wars Battlefront 2, Mass Effect Andromeda. Maybe Anthem will turn into a success, but it doesn't look good. Battlefield 5 is probably also on the list of failures.

Successes: FIFA, Apex Legends. But Apex Legends is free to play so you don't need a subscription service to play it.

EA is poorly managed. Their subscription service isn't worthwhile.

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[Binestar]

Battlefront 2 has been fixed and is by all accounts a great game at this point. Does nothing for the launch stupidity, but it's worth playing now if you like that type of game.

I don't buy EA games though, so I don't own it.

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[smallfries]

I played it this weekend. Massive inprovement over launch. It is pretty good fun.

Re: Just as EA fails

[JonnyCalcutta]

I love Battlefield V. It'll be good to get new maps at some point, but I think it's the best Battlefield to date (I've been playing since BF1942). It's definitely improved a lot since launch.

I think the mistake was BF1. It was too unrealistic. They should have focused those resources on V instead.

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[Computershack]

I love Battlefield V. It'll be good to get new maps at some point

There are new maps released but if you're a Playstation owner you're getting a taste of your own medicine as they come to Xbox first

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[khchung]

I love Battlefield V. It'll be good to get new maps at some point, but I think it's the best Battlefield to date (I've been playing since BF1942). It's definitely improved a lot since launch.

Can you blow up every one of the buildings on the map? I only played BF V beta, and that can't be done in beta.

If a tank can't blow up the building where infantry is hiding, it ain't Battlefield.

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[Agret]

The destruction in BFV is a lot better than it was in BF3/BF4 and especially BF1 where hardly anything could be destroyed. It's not on the map erasing scale of Bad Company 2 but you can certainly blow up way more buildings in this one.

Backwards compatibility is limited?

[FilmedInNoir]

But Starflight and Ultima IV were EA's best games.

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[Dunbal]

Starflight was awesome back in the day. I remember playing it in the 1980's on a brand new CGA monitor.

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[Wulf2k]

I'm not sure that anything of Origin remains at EA beyond the name they bought.

Easy Fix

[Petersko]

Don't be a douchebag online.

There. Easy, no?

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[Agret]

Word filters in Battlefield are custom plugins installed on the rented servers by server owners and not something that EA/DICE put into the game. I agree that they're ridiculous. In Battlefield 3 your soldier would loudly yell "I'm getting my shit pushed in here" yet if you said the word shit in chat you got kicked from the server haha

It's a trap.

[bistromath007]

If you pay a subscription fee, there's no way you can possibly argue you have a perpetual license. This means that EA's habit of making games that stop working when they don't feel like running a server anymore will apply, without any hope of recourse, to everything they release, even if it's completely singleplayer. They're already willing to fuck you when it's probably not legal and just hasn't been tested. Don't let them put you in a situation where it's above board. Don't get GaaSlit.

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[Wulf2k]

As much as I hate the concept, at least this is honest.

You know you're renting, and you're paying prices that reflect it.