No More EA Online Passes!

Rise up and rejoice, fellow gamers, EA has heard our pleas and uncharacteristically heeded them! The dreaded online pass is no more! In an email to Gamesbeat, EA senior director of corportate relations John Reseburg (try saying that five times quickly) has confirmed that they're discontinuing the practice, and from this point forward, no EA game will include a pass.
So join with me as we rejoice one publisher seeing the light, and hope that more will come to see that pissing off their customers isn't the way to run a business.
Posted 17-05-2013, 01:00
A lesson EA are not learning, but are constantly being slammed by
Posted 16-05-2013, 18:27
I love the terms EA used in his email to Gamesbeat: "an effort to package a full menu of online content and services"
(and wow when you copy paste from Gamesbeat it automatically adds in "read more at Gamesbeat" lol, nifty coding :O
But yeah, back on topic, I hate the way EA views the industry, they take a purely business approach, using the same stuff Business students (like myself) learn in University. This is NOT good, as one of the first things most lecturers will tell you is "this is academia, not real-world stuff". Thus applying such theoretical concepts so bluntly is NOT the way to do successful long-term business.
Posted 16-05-2013, 09:46
CD Keys bother me less. Though I would like to see a step back closer to how they used to be. Namely a lack of need for internet activation. It's not the issue it would have been ten years ago perhaps, but it would still be nice to be able to install a game on more than one system, like a laptop for example, without having to hit teh intrawebs
Posted 16-05-2013, 08:40
Now, get rid of cdkeys.
Posted 16-05-2013, 08:23
Taken on its own perhaps. But consider, it's one of those things that's tied in with seasons passes and always online DRM, which are of larger impact on the PC than consoles
Posted 16-05-2013, 08:20
However, it is a bigger news to console gamers. PC games had CD-Keys before that and will have them in the future. We saw no change from online passes.