Sony Said No To PS4 EA Access Program Because It's Not "Good Value" for PlayStation Fans

Okay hear me out, Sony is being a piece of crap right now honestly like why would you think that its a bad idea for gamer's to pay an extra $5 a month for the top free games from EA. If i knew they would of turn down this offer i would have never bought a PS4. Okay. Basically 80% of PS4 players pay $70 dollars a year for your online bull crap (used to be $50). Top games now days are like $80 to $100. Who wouldn't want to pay $5 a month (or $30 a year) for unlimited access to all the newest games from EA. The reason you turned this down and everybody knows it is because of the cheap price EA offers and if it was more expensive then you would have taken the deal so don't keep going with this Not "Good Value" bull crap. If Sony would accept the deal i would buy it the minute it becomes available. Now people start wondering why everybody goes for Xbox and Not PlayStation, and this is why, because of crap reasons like this. Its like raising the price of the PS Plus by $20 wasn't enough they decide to turn down one of the best offers in history. I went with PS because at the time it was $50 dollars and not $70 like Xbox, but Xbox took this deal which made the price change of Xbox live not as bad, but PS decided to raise the price and do nothing else. Please take the offer for EA Access.

"PlayStation Plus memberships are up more than 200% since the launch of PlayStation 4, which shows that gamers are looking for memberships that offer a multitude of services, across various devices, for one low price," the representative said. "We don't think asking our fans to pay an additional $5 a month for this EA-specific program represents good value to the PlayStation gamer."

Sony, that's bullshit and you know it!

THE REASON memberships are up more than 200% is because you are FORCING people to buy memberships!! YOU CAN NOT play online WITHOUT a membership!!! So we all have to pay $50 a year EVERY SINGLE YEAR just to play online. And you offer so called "PERKS" with some shitty free games that not many people like. WOW yeah that's worth it....NOT!

Who wouldn't want to pay as little as $5 a month to play unlimited games? I sure as heck would! and I'm willing to bet if you did a pole the majority of playstation users would agree with me.

Sony, if you want to do a fair and accurate estimate of who ACTUALLY wants to buy a membership, change it so that everyone has online access without needing to purchase a membership. Make the memberships for the "perks" only. Then see what your numbers are!

Let's look at this objectively, the EA Access program is $5 and offers quality games to play! PS Plus has been cr4p for months now and is costing me a lot more for nothing, playing online should be free -.- Sony scams

There's no good reason not to have choice. It is up to the gamer to decide if it's a good value or not. It seems to be quite popular on the Xbox One. The real reason is most likely that Sony was asking for too large of a cut.

So is Sony saying / doing this because this program by EA is in fact low value ??? Or is it doing this because it knows how much gamers hate EA; that way, by declining to partner with EA, Sony wins the hearts of haters. Or maybe I'm extrapolating too much !!!

If there's 1 thing Sony loves, it's a good smear campaign. EA cosy up to Microsoft, Sony bashes EA ... people won't wont want to buy the Xbox One for the EA Access.

Fact of the matter is, if EA Access came to the PS4, you can garentee that PS+ would lose all access to EA titles for their monthly handouts. That's the real reason Sony didn't want it & they're right about 1 thing, it's not good value. Not for the customer, but for Sony.

Sony supports physical games, Gamestop supports fingerprinting people trading in physical games.....IT'S A CONSPIRACY!

I don't like EA, but Sony's reason is pure bs. They simply don't want the competition.

I think they had to take the offer, let the people decide if they want it. I would have subscribed it sounds like a great deal

I think i should have been the one to make the decision myself not you Sony, how rude of you. Nothing wrong with a bit of competition...what ya scared of Sony???

I would have subscribed for sure :P

I am a sony fan, but, this comment and suggestion comes as a ***hurt to me. It is upto to the consumers to decide what is good or bad for them, stop acting a like a parent who knows best for their children lol. Anyways, I really think the truth is it can either mean 2 things:

1: They didn't get the deal and they have to make something up.

2: They declined the deal as it would take away a lot of the value from upcoming ps now service (I am not including plus as it is required for online so I doubt people will stop using it).

One of the neat things about PC gaming is that no one tells you what to do, as a consumer you make the decision, no corporate mind will make the decision for you.

Of course NO. Have you seen the prices on PS now!!

This is bullshit pandering on Sony's part. The reason for not allowing EA Access on PS4 has nothing to do with concern for their consumers. They just don't want the competition on their own console, since this deal is basically in the same vein as PS Now and PS Plus.

Sure they said no. Lol. Even less value on the ps4 than before.

EA and MS can stick together for all I care, I don't need either one in my life :)

They should check their own prices going my recent article

EA had to have been demanding money to put this on the consoles. Even though they are about the worst company out there, they sell alot of games, I'm sure they think they are worth a lot more than what they are. I bought 4 of their games on ps4 when it first launched, after the problems I had with battlefield 4, they will probably be my last.

According to Xbots EA is cool now.

No thanks, I can buy the cheap older games and the new games will just be a trial. Plus whenever EA gets shafted its a good thing. I don't support companies that don't like to pay their workers what they are owed.

You can do this with PlayStation Plus.

No interest.

It's a bunch of old games that you could easily go get out of a bargain bin and then subsequently sell back when you're done.

Its for the best.

Anytime EA have a "business" idea nothing good follows.It turns out to be for their benefit and not the benefit of gamers.

EA are not to be trusted.

examples.

.online pass aka online ass.

.taking servers offline for games that are not even old so they can try and force people to buy the latest iteration.

.day 1 dlc (other publishers do this now but EA pride themselves in pioneering these kinds of antigamer foolishness).

.closing down good developers.

.attempting to buy take2 interactive and when they got turned down they tried a hostile takeover of take2 interactive so they could own gta and 2kgames including 2ks sports games. One publisher to rule them all, No thanks!

.selling games that don't even work.

.They were the biggest supporter of microshaft when they announced a console that didn't work without an internet connection and a console that wouldn't allow you to play the games you own without permission from the corporation.

Nice one SONY for saying NO to EA.

Sony is lying, they aren't saying no because "it's not a good value" $5 per month isn't that much for unlimited game streaming, and Sony already has a service for that they will be charging for access to

xbox only took this option because their monthly free games suck

All of these free game services (at least for MS and PS) are not worth it. Every time I go to a used gamestore, which there are 3 near me, I see all of these games for really cheap prices. The only games that aren't cheap are the current and last gen Nintendo games. I really like MS and PS, but because the market is flooded with their software it makes it ultra cheap, but that also makes these services and ultra rippoff. People need to wake up to the world around them.

EA, and Microsoft are a bunch of crooks, good for you sony! I just fell in love with my ps4 a little more.

So instead of giving customers a choice Sony decide to over charge people with PS now, $8 for 1 old game for 1 month, yeah you shot yourself in the foot with this stupid comment Sony lol.

Translation: it would be a threat to their overpriced crap service.

EA should stick with MS its a good thing that SONY and Nintendo kicked them to the curve.