EA Sports is soon going to require the use of an “online pass” to use all of the online features that are available. It will cost you $10 to get one of these “online passes”. Here is a better explanation to this pass:
“In order to continue to enhance the online experiences that are attracting nearly five million connected game sessions a day,” said the vice president of worldwide development, Andrew Wilson, “we think it’s fair to get paid for the services we provide and to reserve these online services for people who pay EA to access them. In return, we’ll continue to invest in creating great games and offer industry leading online services to extend the game experience to everyone. When we see how many people are playing all of our games online,” said Wilson, “consumers are telling us that competition is endemic to sports in a way that most people don’t get just by playing a game alone on their couch. As a result, we’ve made a significant investment to offer the most immersive online experience available. We want to reserve EA Sports online services for people who pay EA to access them.”
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