Online Passes going away?!?!?

[Ironbat92]

Looks like we're starting to see the end of Online Passes: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/15/ea-getting-rid-of-online-passes?utm_campaign=ign+main+twitter&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

So, now alway need to do is to convince Sony, Ubisoft, and Deep Silver and life will be good

 

[GodzillaGuy92]

*Checks calendar.*

Bu-... but April 1st was a month and a half ago.

Am I dreaming?
Where am I?
Reality bends and folds before me in tantalizing shapes, but without pattern.
No reason, thus no prediction. Our world is a baby's shoe falling up a flight of escalators.

Was it us?
Was our ability to devise the baby's shoe what brought it into being after all? Have we truly the power make that difference?



[small]...Man, I'm tired.[/small]

 

[Dead Seerius]

...The end times are surely upon us.

NO! DON'T RUIN THIS HAPPY MOMENT FOR ME, CYNICISM!
Seriously, this is great news. It's only a single step in the right direction, but seeing as it's coming from EA it might as well be a moonwalk.

I didn't see this coming but I'm happy it did. Hopefully more publishers will follow suit.

 

[Terminate421]

http://m.ign.com/articles/2013/05/15/ea-getting-rid-of-online-passes

http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/15/ea-kills-its-controversial-online-pass-program/

I can only say this:

Next step is annihilating Origin.

EDIT: Already posted in news, either ignore this or mods delete, my bad.

 

[Zhukov]

Yay?

I never actually bought an online pass. Not even sure that I ever bought a used game that had an online pass.

Really, this whole controversy basically flew straight over my head.

Ah well, I guess that at least there'll be one less code I have to type in during installation.

 

[idarkphoenixi]

Well now you just have to wonder what other system EA thought was worth dumping one of their best cash cows.

 

[TaintedSaint]

It cause always online Drm...is the new hottness

 

[ThePuzzldPirate]

That is cause from now on, all their games will be "MMO"'s, calling it now. XD

 

[Atmos Duality]

Already commented on the matter, but it bears repeating.

Project 10 Dollar was launched to discourage people from buying Used Games for reasons that I hope are obvious.
There was nothing innately wrong with that as far as I'm concerned, and it's an old topic so I won't retread any more old ground than necessary.

Discontinuing it sounds like a big boon.
It isn't really, consider:
1) The current generation of consoles are coming to an end.
2) It is all but certain that the next generation of consoles will use an account system that kills Used Games innately, making Project 10 Dollar obsolete.

This isn't to say the move is bad; there is nothing wrong with it, but it isn't some divine gift on EA's part.
It's a good PR move more than anything (and boy does EA need good buzz), and a clever one both now and for when the new systems arrive.
(that and charging 10 bucks for online passes for the games on the new consoles would generate some bad press and controversy to say the least)