wraggster
June 21st, 2013, 23:58
Xbox One, PS4 announcements doesn't mean publisher will reinstate program
EA won't be rebooting its Online Pass program despite the news that neither the Xbox One or PS4 will offer first party anti-used games restrictions.
The publisher had first announced the removal of the program, which charges those who bought used game an additional fee to activate it for online multiplayer, in the days before Microsoft unvieled a new console that was said to have its own anti-used game systems in place.
Since then Sony has revealed that its PlayStation 4 wouldn't have any such restrictions and Microsoft was forced to backtrack, but EA tells Polygon (http://www.polygon.com/2013/6/19/4446822/ea-discontinued-online-pass-policy-xbox-one-ps4) it doesn't plan on reversing course.
[There is] no change to our decision to discontinue Online Pass," said EA's senior director of corporate communications John Reseburg. "It is dead."
“As we said a few weeks ago, none of our new EA titles will include online pass, and we are removing it from existing games as well. Nothing else on today's news, but did want to be clear that our online pass decision was based on player feedback, and there's no change."
http://www.develop-online.net/news/44594/EAs-Online-Pass-wont-return
EA won't be rebooting its Online Pass program despite the news that neither the Xbox One or PS4 will offer first party anti-used games restrictions.
The publisher had first announced the removal of the program, which charges those who bought used game an additional fee to activate it for online multiplayer, in the days before Microsoft unvieled a new console that was said to have its own anti-used game systems in place.
Since then Sony has revealed that its PlayStation 4 wouldn't have any such restrictions and Microsoft was forced to backtrack, but EA tells Polygon (http://www.polygon.com/2013/6/19/4446822/ea-discontinued-online-pass-policy-xbox-one-ps4) it doesn't plan on reversing course.
[There is] no change to our decision to discontinue Online Pass," said EA's senior director of corporate communications John Reseburg. "It is dead."
“As we said a few weeks ago, none of our new EA titles will include online pass, and we are removing it from existing games as well. Nothing else on today's news, but did want to be clear that our online pass decision was based on player feedback, and there's no change."
http://www.develop-online.net/news/44594/EAs-Online-Pass-wont-return