While even EA's single-player games have found excuses to slip in an online pass, the co-op fueled Syndicate is confirmed to NOT use one at all. According to EA, it's all about encouraging gamers to play it ... what an innovation!
"We want as little resistance or barriers to entry as possible," executive producer Jeff Gamon told Eurogamer . "The co-op is equal billing in this. We wanted everyone who owns a copy of the game to have access to the entire product."
It's very interesting that even Electronic Arts recognizes that the lack of an online pass is a selling point, and that's part of the reason I resist passes so vocally and regularly. The more developers have to defend online passes to consumers, the more of a good PR move it becomes to not include one, and then there's more incentive to drop the practice.
In any case, this is very pleasant to see. Good going!
No Online Pass for Syndicate, EA confirms [Eurogamer]
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12:30 PM on 02.01.2012
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Could that possibly mean this game is going to suck Sasquatch balls and EA is looking for any positive press it can find about it pre-release?
Or maybe this is EXACTLY what EA wants. Maybe they've been putting Online Passes in all their good games to try and get people to buy their shitty games. CONSPIRACY THEORY! lol
Come the fuck at me, bro.
So great that I hear of this on the same day as I was convinced by this very site to buy it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNnjzpRMPTU
I don't wanna praise this news more than I should because it seems like such a trivial thing, but this is just awesome.
Welcome to the pre-2010 way of thinking.
Then again you have something like their Star Wars MMO not forcing Origin while ME3 and BF3 do.
It's official, everyone! EA is either really smart or absolutely schizophrenic... Or maybe it's both. Dammit, I guess it's not official at all.
it's not as trivial as you might think. all these things big publishers have been trying to do lately are just testing grounds to see how they can retain the control they've so far enjoyed.
also, welcome to dtoid! and yes, we can totally say fuck here and no one even bats an eye. one of the many reasons this place is far superior to so many other gaming-related sites.
brb, buying Half-Life 2 used for $3.00
>:D
on a later note, err, Didn't Crytek do this too?
Keep dreaming man.
But this is good news!
What about the people who rent games? Are they horrible people too?
I'm just sayin' if you enjoy the fuck outta a game, like totally LUST THE SHIT OUTTA a game, shouldn't the developer see full/fair profit? They worked hard to make something you actually loved so they should be compensated(not so much the publisher, that's just a side-effect) for their time and hard work. This is why I immediately stopped buying used and selling my games to GameStop when I learned that devs get jack shit from used sales.
They'd get more if you bought used and sent money to the dev. (note: DEV, not publisher). Publisher gets the lion's share.
That actually brings up a question in its own right. With the WiiU having NFC, how would you feel about an Online pass that you simply need to place on the controller to work? Would no hassle online passes change how you view them?
They already did!
http://www.destructoid.com/ea-explains-what-ssx-s-online-pass-will-entail-220700.phtml
I love Destructoid.
Probably more setting things up so they can point at a nominal drop in earnings vs their projections and shout to the heavens that if only Online pass had been there to save them they wouldn't have had to grind up the developers and their families and to use for jet fuel :P
You're like the guy with a sandwich board standing on the corner yelling at people. "The sky is GREEN, jackasses! Stop being AIDS!"