EA Does it Again, Season Ticket

BreakABone · 08-02-2011, 03:30 PM

A new way to get increased revenue without really adding anything of value to the games.

http://www.1up.com/news/ea-sports-se...you-play-early

EA Season Ticket, is a 25/year, "pass" for EA Sports Titles that allows you:

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Known as EA Sports Season Ticket, the subscription program costs $24.99 (2000 Microsoft Points) per year and entitles you to the following: three days of early access to play certain EA Sports games, a 20% discount on DLC, free "premium web content," and recognition of your membership both in-game and on the EA Sports website.

I like this quote

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It's worth noting that, while the 20% discount sounds like a lot, to make up for the $25 spent on the Season Ticket itself, you'd need to buy $125 on DLC over the course of one year just to break even.

magus113 · 08-02-2011, 05:45 PM

Note that early access to the games also means you still need to go out and buy the actual game once that three day window is up as well.

KillerGremlin · 08-02-2011, 06:03 PM

They need to come up with a new acronym...because DLC does not accurately convey how much consumers are getting fucked in the ass.

manasecret · 08-03-2011, 12:05 AM

There's gotta be more than that, right? It's so obviously worthless that this sounds like an Onion article for video games.

Professor S · 08-03-2011, 11:24 AM

While I normally ok with allowing the market to decide pricing, etc. there may be anti-trust issues at play here. EA has a lock-down on the NFL license, and this could be considered gauging because consumers have no other options for NFL licensed games.

This is a stretch, but possible.

gekko · 08-03-2011, 11:55 AM

You can vote with your dollar. Don't buy it and they will stop offering it.

Typhoid · 08-03-2011, 04:11 PM

2 bucks a month isn't a big deal. It's only 2 bucks. I'm not saying I'm going to go out and sign up for this - because it doesn't really sound like it offers much other than putting you on a priority list for various things - but for only 2 bucks there will probably be a lot of people who are willing to sign up considering how it compares to the monthly cost of other things. I can see a lot of people having the "It's only 2 bucks, big deal" outlook.

Vampyr · 08-03-2011, 04:50 PM

It's not though, it's a one time payment of $25, which I think people will be a lot more hesitant to spend than if they were to just be able to spend $2 every month to keep the subscription going.

magus113 · 08-03-2011, 05:27 PM

This is also a membership thing for sports games.

Sports games. Of which they release not that many compared to the other franchises and IPs they put out during the year.

NFL, NCAA Football, Fight Night (if they still make those new), Rugby now I think, Tiger Woods PGA, NCAA March Madness, NHL, and FIFA. Each one once a year. Pretty sure not everybody plays all the sports games either.

My brother plays sports games and he only really likes the NCAA series because he thinks they do a better job than the Madden yearly releases.

So yeah, great job guys.