EA killing Online Passes for existing games

They only have to do Just enough good so they can get ahead of Microsoft for next years Worst Company in America award.

they should reimburse me the ten bucks i wasted on an online pass for battlefield 3

What's this, a New EA, glad the old CEO is gone. How about bringing back Overstrike.

At last we see a good work from EA !!?!?!?!?!?!

@Runar Jenssen i dont think that EA has been working with microsoft

June 9, 2013

"We are shutting down online services for all aforementioned titles."

-EA

so if i buy an ea game that already came out i wont need the online passes

Excellent news! Now for the DRMs

and why have they reached this decision? Microsoft will police the gamers themselves!!! I wouldnt be surprised if there was someone making money on this. Buy the game used..??? It automatically has a fee right there. Microsoft, and i hope not sony, will take care of EA's online pass with a nice check from MS. Everyone wins!! ohh, wait a minute...........damn those gamers!!!

so much win!!!

**** EA.

Question: Why would the biggest game studio on Earth do away with a method of collecting profit on used games?

Answer: Because Xbox One & PS4 will already have it built into their systems in some way.

This just adds further proof that we'll be paying $10-$30 fees to play our used games on the next generation. Trust me, EA doesnt "care" as much as they want you to believe they do. They just know the next-gen will make their Online Pass system redundant.

Well done EA! I hope you will continue to make all of your policies more consumer-friendly. I would be happy to give you more gaming $ if that becomes the case!

You guys think EA/Dice will be able to put 64 player servers for this game on PS4? They havent mentioned a word about that and i dont know why!! I mean there shouldnt be a reason not to support it when the PS4 has powerful hardware specs and at least 10-15x more powerful than the PS3!!

WHAT ABOUT FIFA??????? DAMN YOU EA! Sports titles should have been first??? I bought a used FIFA 13 and I wont buy the damn pass. Remove it already :s

It's a shame. Online passes did their job correctly.

Too bad the gaming community is full of the whiniest people on the planet, and have to ruin everything.

took them long enough.. I just feel sorry for the people who bought an online pass on a pre-owned or borrowed game.. I'm so glad I didn't bother buying this pass for dead space 3

and I doubt EA will refund the gamers who spent hard earned money on this joke of a policy..

Am I the only one that doesn't dislike EA Games? I play games as I don't care who owns the games that I want to play. I do have favorites of some of the companies that make and owns games, but I don't dislike any of them.

Now with waning interest in all of EA publishers lineup of games, EA may finally start to look from its ivory towers at the disappearing customers and have decided the crickets are getting too loud.

While all online passes need to be removed, all forms of ONLINE all the time games have to be fixed as well. Internet availability cannot be deciding factor of when and where you can play a 60$ game.

Just your weekly required EA PR spiel from GS move along. There will be another next week and the week after that, anything to keep EA in the news feeds.

I forgive you EA, yeah, im nice like that.

Yay, should had done away with this a long time ago when gamers weren't pissed. It's the pissing generation now EA, y'all need to try harder than this.

I guess with the Xbox One that has that used gaming fees and the fact that the PS4 can give the publishers the option to block used games makes me think of why EA is stopping online passes since they don't need them anymore. I still don't trust them at all.

And what about all the people that already purchased an online pass? Do they get their money back? Discount? Coupon?....At least a hug and saying your sorry?

Sometimes doing the right thing, isn't doing the right thing.

I think this is actually good news... There have been like 3 or 4 versions of what M$ might be doing regarding used games in the future floating around out there and to be honest it seems at least one of the biggest video game publishers (2k) has not a clue what M$ is going to do regarding the issue... So to assume that EA is in the know about it and are dropping the pass just because they are sure they will recoup the loss in the next console generation is exactly the opposite of why I believe they are doing it... Probably has more to do with damage control and trying to get back on the good side of gamers.... man image is everything and don't think the M$ isn't aware of the vast amount of negativity with the xbone reveal... they were testing the waters to see if they could get a cut of the used games industry by releasing all these conflicting statements and seeing what ppl would tolerate.. don't worry sony is no better they just let M$ make the first move and take the blame i'm sure they would like a cut of the action too... but to be honest i think the way to really build trust and not try to 3 card monty gamers (who are a fickle and intelligent lot mind you) is to just try to keep things the same...release games that people want to keep...offer interesting DLC that makes ppl want to hold onto games...play fair...rockstar games and beth and a few other publishers have done this and it works...i would never trade my copy in of skyrim or rdr etc due to the great support these games have had from the developers and their lasting appeal...

We all know this is probably because of the Xbox One used games policy, but this means it doesn't apply for current gen games, so that's at least a plus.

So EA says there listening to the customers and getting rid of online passes. Well I heard this 2 weeks ago. EA didn't do it for there customers. There just getting the money from microsoft now cause the XBox one will make companies like Gamestop pay microsoft and game producers money to sell used games. EA always wanted to get money from the used game industry. So nice try EA we are smarter then that!!!

I buy used games, but I don't play online, so online passes don't affect me at all, but I don't see them as a bad thing as long as they are no more than a few pounds to purchase. Servers are expensive to run, so it only seems fair that those gamers who have bought a used game pay a few pounds if they wish to use the companys servers for online play.