EA Play Coming To Xbox Game Pass At No Extra Cost

7 responses to “EA Play Coming To Xbox Game Pass At No Extra Cost”

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   foggy

   September 10, 2020 at 1:15 am

   Wow, and its FREE with FREE Gamepass!

   Trolling aside, that’s crazy good. Ive already got an evil EA subscription as well as Gamepass Ultimate that i bought prepaid as XBL Gold through to late 2022 then upgraded the lot for $1.

   Im now looking at the Series X and seeing a $750 once off payment for all my PC and console expenditure for the next two years!

   ….i might still buy Cyberpunk at full retail.

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      lichbane

      September 10, 2020 at 7:52 am

      I’m not going to complain! This means I can save $120 on my current annual sub to EA. XBGPU just became even better value.

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   Kasterix

   September 10, 2020 at 4:14 am

   So the base version of EA Play.Not that I’m complaining, 10 hours is plenty to see if you like a new release enough to want to buy it.

   Still a great get for Game Pass as a whole… And not bad for EA either honestly.

   However, I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t do the same with PS+ at some point because I find it quite odd they’d pick sides like this unless MS gave them a boatload of cash.

   While it says it’s only available to Ultimate or PC Game Pass, that doesn’t exactly spell out exclusive to Xbox… Only that Xbox console players need to pay up for Ultimate.

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   transientmind

   September 10, 2020 at 8:44 am

   Well that’s a tasty sweetener. EA Play’s pretty shit on the PC, I thought about it when looking at the offering on Steam and noted how few games there were that I was both interested in and didn’t already own (thus ruling out Sims, Anthem, Battlefront 2). Not enough new or old there to justify a sub. But if you’re into the racing/sports/battlefield games, I imagine there might be a bit more appeal, there.

   Combined with the reasonable payment plan, the chances of my getting a neXtbox alongside my up-front guaranteed PS5 just increased very slightly.

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4. 

   pokedad

   September 10, 2020 at 9:26 am

   I’m already really happy with PC gamepass, so this is a hell of a sweetener. They’ve probably just locked me in for a while and robbed Steam and epic of quite a few dollars.

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   grimthebunny

   September 10, 2020 at 12:15 pm

   Man, Games Pass doing a reverse Netflix and consolidating its competitors offerings is something i didn’t see happening, i had always imagined that the market would fracture like the streaming one has where everyone carves off their own sliver of content to the point that each individual offering is no longer worth the price of admission

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      transientmind

      September 10, 2020 at 6:04 pm

      Right? The video companies doing this have already started to drive me back to the seven digital seas for select titles, but seeing a consolidation in the game space is definitely unexpected. First EA coming back to Steam, and now EA+Gamepass.

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