EA's next level of ridiculousness - Season Pass

[killgod]

http://kotaku.com/5826597/ea-sports-season-ticket-subscription-gets-diehard-fans-in-the-game-early

Season Pass Details.

What you pay? $25
What you get? A 3 day free(lol ?) early play of games like Madden, NHL and FIFA. You can download the whole 5-6GB games and then they lock upon release day where you have to buy the disc from the store. Your saves n shit will carry over.
You also get a 20% discount on buying virtual coins and other useless EA sports shit.

They've also suggested things like TeamBuilder (NCAA), Creation Centre (FIFA) will be included in this package, meaning future additions to these features won't be given for free any longer.


Good grief...

[killgod]

This is not an offering that will pay for itself, unless you intend to buy more than $125 worth of downloadable content from EA Sports in a year. For all of the crap EA Sports takes for its microtransaction and DLC catalog, I don't see how that total can be reached normally. All of Madden NFL 12's accelerators can be had for $10. The "Power Pack" delivering everything in NCAA 12 is $25. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12 offers the most premium DLC but to buy every additional course offered (through two bundles) would cost $58. Except for Ultimate Team obssessives, the premium DLC discount is a perk, not a reason to buy the Season Ticket.

That leaves the preview weekend as the key reason to plunk down the $25. Subscribers will get an email notification when the game is available on PSN or Xbox Live, but will have to trigger the download manually. While playing a game for three days before the general public can buy it poses a "play early, play more, play better," proposition, as EA Sports President Peter Moore put it, those who are primarily multiplayer gamers should consider what kind of experience they'll be getting. Sure, there's a chance to familiarize yourself with the game's new mechanics in singleplayer, but online multiplayer matchmaking, in that preview weekend, will be more limited than what is seen on the day of release.

Also, it's console limited.

What a fuckin joke!

[Nevermind]

Will these 3 day previews be patched because it seems like every year NCAA and Madden need a release day patch.

[killgod]

Nope. You probably won't have release day rosters either.

[Nevermind]

$25 for a demo with a few more things unlocked. The worst part is that there will be people that buy this.

[jms493]

Ultimately it will be up to us to determine if this fails or succeeds. Big Business feeds off the uneducated and financially irresponsible consumer.

[Ravin]

And you just know there will be hundreds of idiots wanting to play a game 3 days in advance. Not saying people here will, but we have a "Where can I get the game early" threads every year for almost every game, so in a sense, this gives everyone the option of playing it early. Of course only a fucking idiot would pay $25 for a game that will be basically an offline game. If it was $10, people would do it more, but $25 you are paying 1/3 of the retail price for 3 days. So yeah, stupid uneducated people are fucked.

[leaffan]

Peter Moore is an idiot.

[MrBill]

I typically play the game up to a week or more early on my Xbox 360 at zero cost. Won't be paying this $25 rip off fee.

[Hitman]

I typically play the game up to a week or more early on my Xbox 360 at zero cost. Won't be paying this $25 rip off fee.

Indeed.. This year was weird with NCAA not being available until release day but it is usually around a week or so early. Fuck EA and their cash grabs..

[tigstah]

i wish the fuck i would pay 25 bucks to play that pos early. :niggaplease:

yup there are people who would pay early......for those who do :obama:

so you are renting the game for 3 days, then it locks. as someone said, 10 bucks maybe.....25 hell no.

[leaffan]

I read on the Facebook announcement page you'd have to roughly spend $125 on dlc alone to make it worth it that way.

[killgod]

I read on the Facebook announcement page you'd have to roughly spend $125 on dlc alone to make it worth it that way.

It was derived from the 2nd kotaku piece about it

This is not an offering that will pay for itself, unless you intend to buy more than $125 worth of downloadable content from EA Sports in a year. For all of the crap EA Sports takes for its microtransaction and DLC catalog, I don't see how that total can be reached normally. All of Madden NFL 12's accelerators can be had for $10. The "Power Pack" delivering everything in NCAA 12 is $25. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12 offers the most premium DLC but to buy every additional course offered (through two bundles) would cost $58. Except for Ultimate Team obssessives, the premium DLC discount is a perk, not a reason to buy the Season Ticket.

[EmpireWF]

Why can't another developer rise up and smash these fools in the brain? (and the pocketbook, too)

[PP]

So by the time the game downloads 6gb (very slow with their shitty servers) we could have waited 1 day and buy it retail? failx1000