EA Sports subscription service planned?

I bought Fight Night - my first EA Game in years. No damage or blood in online fights. You can pay to gain XP for your boxer, and they want me to enter my online PIN every time I turn on the game. They are so money hungry and are trying to nickel and dime people that already paid 60 bucks for a game.

hell no! i bet like all companys they'll just rip the "exclusive DLC" from the game and make u pay for stuff that should have been there already...

I'm officially starting a moratorium for myself on all future DLC content from EA. I'm fed up with them and will not be rewarding them any longer with anymore of my nickles and dimes.

As long as it is not mandatory to play the games the publish then i dont care.

EA really needs to go to a clinic, this "lets get every bleeping dime outta people we can" addiction is getting serious. Not bougus since EA has pretty much had its lips clamped to the teets of DLC since day one, I shocked they dont make us pay a fee everytime we hear "ITS IN THE GAME".

I was going to post something semi-intelligent. After reading the article, I just don't have it in me anymore

Welcome to the "next generation" of gaming. How many corporate tools will make this idea successful?

As long as this only affects those lousy sports game they release every year then I really don't care.

This may become a domino effect for more 3rd party publishers to join on the subscription bandwagon, as if paying $60 per games without extra "meat on its bones", isn't enough. This is quite disturbing. If the bandwagon effect comes true, I'm quitting gaming altogether. I don't play EA sports games (last one was Madden 2005) and it may not affect me too much, but the domino effect is what I'm more concerned about.

Terrible.....good thing I like throwing a football around outside better anyway :)

Official Wording: "Discounts on all downloadable content." What it means: "Price hike on all content for non-subscribers versus the prices they had paid previously."

I love how everybody acts surprised about a company wanting to make more money.

I cant say im too surprised. It's EA, what do you expect. Soon Activision will require sub for online for CoD

And you'll have to pay a monthly fee and it'll be DRM-ed to Hell. Pass.

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70 bucks per year for each "new" sports game, and they want to add a 35$ subscription? Knowing how greedy they are it'll probably end up as a monthly subscription as well. Anyways, if they reduce the price of their games by $30, It might start to look interesting. Anything else just looks like they are trying to milk their customers.

I enjoy EA games but this is just a bad move that I dont approve of.

Pay for the game, pay for Xbox live, pay for EA subs. My country is very critized because monopoly of some companies, but you can see how they work seeing EA Sports: No competitors, I can do whatever I want to gamers. And you guys allow that! I expect to see future EAS Sports titles selling very well.

It's EA. It surprises me as much as another wow expansion or another call of duty game. I will not be supporting this move by them if they decide to go forward with this plan.

Unbelievable. And of course all the sheep are gonna jump on the bandwagon.

If this encompassed all of EA's titles, i.e. even their non-annual titles like Dead Space or Battlefield, I might have taken a second look; frankly as far as the sports games go, I only really care about SSX. =P

what do game publishers and condoms have in common ? .. they both spend 2 much time in ya farkin' wallet

Pay for the same game every year and pay more a year to play things that should already be in the game, now add a subscription to that. Has EA gone completely money hungry. You quote on quote hardcore gamers better not support this if true. This definitely would lead others to pulling this crap.

Looks like I'm done with EA Sports titles. What a load of crap.

This is a joke. Good thing the only sports game I play is MLB The Show

how bout i pay EA to stop making madden games

I get tired of seeing this sort of stuff! We already pay about $60 for one EA game! Same with other games! Why make us feel like we are unworthy, just because we didn't get this so called "Premium Content?!" Stop milking people dry! Most of us don't have money to blow like that!

I'm so sick of EA and there coniving ways to suck more money out of people. I have been trying to avoid their games for years now, and will just continue. The only way to stop this is stop buying..

Please people, do not support this. Micro transactions will be the death of us all if we continue to let these corporate jerks nickel and dime us. Just think about it, they want us to pay extra for content that should be there in the first place. Vote with your wallet.

Guess what I won't be buying anymore?

NO, just no.

What's sad is that if they did implement this, then people will actually pay for it.

God I can't wait 4 EA to lose the NFL license

I'll stick with 2KSports

Yay, something else from EA for me NOT to buy!

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The only two ea sports franchises I've ever bought into are NHL and Fight Night. I don't know why people say they never change year to year, NHL 10 and NHL 11 were a lot different. Same with the Fight Night's.

F*** EA. They are nothing but Activision 2.0 and they don't change anything in there sports games no interest. 2K is better anyways.

God as if they didn't milk it dry by coming out with a new a game each year. This is not counting the stupid call of duty series which comes out with a DLC every other fricking quarter. As if they were not making enough money of us already.

no thank you EA, your Sports game bore me and are the same engine every year.

Not to put any ideas in EA's corporate heads, but is the $15-$35 a year, or a month? I would guess that it's per year, but I wouldn't put it past EA to try and make it per month. Considering there are two games on that list that anyone in my family plays or would like to play, I don't see this being financially viable for me.

I wont pay, mostly because I am already paying 60 a year for Live, 23 a month for Gamefly and 10 for Netflix which may go away in place for Hulu Plus which is 8. TBH, I can't afford another fee. If gamers just don't pay, companies wont do it.

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I would pay 15 bucks if they allowed me to buy one Madden and just keep the roster updates every year, it's not like they change the game year to year anyways.

no more ea sports for me. thats a shame though :(

goodness, they are finding all new ways to make people pay - from a marketing perspective, it's brilliant, but I think I'll be annoyed about it until further notice.

Who is to blame?, EA for taking advantage of people, or people who allow it to happen by buying their product year after year?.

Don't blame EA for this. They'll keep capitalizing on schmucks so long as they keep paying for it. I used to hate EA hardcore, but now I'm actually starting to hate the gamers that allowed this to happen.

I never buy from them anyway. Hope companies stop leaning towards these kind of things more. my logic tells me its bogus, their logic may tell otherwise T_T.