Therumored subscription program has come to fruition. Today EA Sports announced the &8216;Season Ticket&8217; &8211; a yearly subscription plan that will be sold for $25/2000 MS points. The four primary benefits of the service are as follows:
EA Sports Introduces The ‘Season Ticket’?wow download,•Early Full-Game Digital Access
Three days before a games scheduled release, ns will be able to download and play the full version of all five participating titles on Xbox 360 and PS3. The digitally downloaded game will time out when the game is available at retail and consumers have the option to purchase the same full game on disc at retail. EA SPORTS Season Ticket subscribers can transfer all achievements earned during the three-day download period to the purchased disc, resulting in an early edge over the competition.
•Discounted Downloadable Content
Subscribers will get a 20-percent discount on all available downloadable content for participating EA SPORTS titles. Downloadable content, which enhances and refreshes the core game experience, includes such items as Ultimate Team packs, accelerator packs and gear upgrades.
•Free Premium Web Content
Premium web content extends the game experience beyond the console to a web browser. All participating titles will feature premium web content that will be free to EA SPORTS Season Ticket members beginning with the premium Creation Center packs for FIFA Soccer 12. These packs provide a deeper set of customization tools and abilities within Creation Center to build your own teams and tournaments, and will be available to the consumer until the membership to the program has expired.
•Membership Recognition
Subscribers are easily identifiable with an exclusive membership recognition badge displayed both in-game and on their EASPORTS.com profile.
The &8216;Season Ticket&8217; will kick off starting with Madden NFL 12 but can be purchased as early as today. In a poll regarding the potential subscription planrespondents soundly rejected the idea. Now that the final details are out there what do you think of the &8216;Season Ticket&8217;?
Wow. . . no discounted game titles due to them not pressing discs or the savings on not packaging games. . . sheesh. SMH
Wow. . . no discounted game titles due to them not pressing discs or the savings on not packaging games. . . sheesh. SMH
If you like downloading all of their demos&8230;and can do so but now get the full game for $5 a game, it doesnt sound too bad. I&8217;m not excited about it&8230;but not completely put off by it either.
How many of these different &8220;money grab&8221; ideas is EA going to try? Wouldn&8217;t it be easier to give up the exclusive licenses if their regular sales can&8217;t pay for them?
Talk about nickle and diming their hard core ns. What a joke.
How many of these different &8220;money grab&8221; ideas is EA going to try? Wouldn&8217;t it be easier to give up the exclusive licenses if their regular sales can&8217;t pay for them?
Talk about nickle and diming their hard core ns. What a joke.
what the hell is this? this is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Thanks for giving me another reason to hate EA. How about they work on fixing wow downloadbugs and glitches with the game instead of trying to pony more money out of people.
Don&8217;t worry&8230;there will be some EA Game Changers on here soon enough, telling us how good a deal this is. Never ils.
Well&8230;.I only buy Madden and NCAA football every year, so that breaks down to 12.50 per game per year ADDITIONAL to the 60.00 already.
Next, I rarely buy DLC for either game because boosters seem cheap to me. I prefer to earn those type of things.
Lastly, I would have to see what the &8220;Premiuim&8221; Web content would be for the 2 games. My guess would be nothing much.
The only REAL positive in this would be the MEASLY 3 day advance of the release which isn&8217;t that big of a deal. If it would be 1 &8211; 2 weeks, then that would be a different story.
A the end of it all&8230;..No i will not be a subscriber.
Well, first of all, you still have to go out and buy the game on a disc as the download expires once the game releases so they&8217;re not saving any of those costs.
More importantly though, on consoles, it&8217;s going to be a LONG time before you start to see price drops because of savings on discs/packaging because if EA were to turn around & offer the full version of Madden 12 as a download, three days early, at say, for example, $49.99 instead of $59.99, GameStop, Wal-Mart, Best Buy etc would be PISSED at EA.
In return, they stop promoting Madden 12 via in store displays and retail flyers, which causes a drop in sales that aren&8217;t going to be replaced by digital sales because of a) the subscription fee for the Season Ticket and b) even if they do release the download to all players on launch day, the low percentage of people who have their consoles connected to the internet.
You also run the risk of those retailers refusing to promote future EA games or for lesser known titles like their recent release of &8216;Shadows of the Damned&8217;, they may refuse to stock them at all if EA has screwed them on one of the biggest releases of the year.
This is why you see such high prices on Games on Demand & the PSN Store for full retail games. Until 98% or more of console owners have their systems connected to a broadband internet connection, you&8217;re not going to see day & date digital releases, nor a lesser price for digital versions of console games because they can&8217;t piss off the retailers.
Even once everybody is connected to the internet with their consoles, it will still be iffy as to how quickly you see these things because the console manucturers will still have to rely on retailers to sell the hardware that consumers will need to be able to download digital items.
Ah good point. Just re-read the article and noticed it does have a 3-day &8220;trial&8221; period.
Whyy don&8217;t they fix their games? They have problems with NCAA,Juicy Couture Outlet. of course there will be problems with Madden down the line&8230;.and needless to say you don&8217;t have a basketball franchise as of right now and if you did you couldn&8217;t compete with 2k, so how van I trust giving you 25 extra dollars, so I can have a game three days early? How do they think we are&8230;..by r the worst hustle of the century
if they had gone with the rumored one week and not three days id MAYBE think of this. the rest of this means nothing to me. what a joke
Awwhhhh Hell&8230;..I&8217;d just get it for the 4th feature alone&8230;.MEMBERSHIP RECOGNITION! I want to be easily identifiable! LMFAO!
You godda be kiddin me&8230;.(smack!)
Wont be long now until we see the day we see EA to try an charge us for each game we actually play on top of the purchase of the Disc!
EA, You guys got some pair of balls&8230;.some pair!
Go stick your subscription models up your ass&8230;your lucky we&8217;re even buying your cheesy 15 year old mo capped tech engine game that gets these corny rehashed features every year!
NiggggaaaaaaPulllleeeeeeeeeeeeeaase!
So we can&8217;t even do something as as editing rosters properly in NCAA but we can subscribe to download a broken game 3 days in advance. Gee thanks EA.
EA,
Basically I&8217;m paying you $25 to be a beta tester, since your games come out broken each cycle and a month or two passes before the real version is released. Thanks EA, I&8217;ve always wanted this, still can&8217;t forget back in 2003 you came to our college campus recruiting beta testers for Madden, NCAA, and Live. I didnt get a chance back then, but know I do&8230;Oooooh, it&8217;s like Christamas in July all over again!!!
Wait&8230;Wait, Let me decphier this deal in my thick EAbonics impared skull for little bit&8230;.hmmmm
You each give us $25, We&8217;ll let you have:
-The game that your already purchasing a few days earlier
-A measly discount to purchase more useless stuff for your game
-Creation Content online that already comes with the game youv&8217;e just purchased!
-And finally, a big glowing badge next to your user name telling everyone how much of a tool you are for buying this membership!
This is a ntastic deal!&8230;move out of the way, where do I sign up&8230;.. today!
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Straight garbage. So you get a discount on in game purchases&8230;..sounds like you prepay for them&8230;.are we at Sam&8217;s club now? What a stupid idea. I hope nobody buys it.
So you get it 3 days early&8230;big deal.
and you also get &8216;membership recognition&8217; with a badge that says &8220;I&8217;m A JACKASS FOR BUYING THIS PASS&8221;
EA, why don&8217;t you go ahead and get it over with and charge $100 for each of your crappy, half-finished video games.
This is a relief, I thought it was going to be like you had to pay to use the &8220;EA Servers&8221; so I&8217;d have to pay for XBL plus this. I&8217;m not interested in any of that stuff.
Waste of money&8230; I just need two games a year. FIFA and NBA 2K&8230; daz it 2K12 isnt even an EA game&8230;
huhu, you get the game three days before scheduled release day&8230; well. nothing special&8230; i always get da game one day before release, so&8230;
if they take 10-20% off the games as well for being apart of this thing, and i&8217;m talking new release, not that older , then it&8217;ll be worth getting.
if they take 10-20% off the games as well for being apart of this thing, and i&8217;m talking new release, not that older , then it&8217;ll be worth getting.
I wonder if &8220;Soundly Rejected&8221; even matters. The Season Ticket is clearly not targeted towards the audience of Pastapadre. It&8217;s aimed towards casual ns that approach games with Zynga-like mentality: Pay some money and get stuff.
If that $25 would apply towards the purchase of a game, no problem! But an addition to the $60 price tag&8230;forget it!
true, but they aren&8217;t gonna NOT carry the game, they just won&8217;t advertise it, kinda like the first monster hunter portable. I&8217;m not saying it&8217;s not gonna be good, not bad either, because the people who signs up for it has internet connection already.
They should get a percentage off the hard disc itself, thus when other people sees it, they would be willing to join, growing at the same time runescape accounts, the reason games cost so much is once they release a new system, they test out a price and if everyone buys it, they keep it at that. &8220;new technology&8221; cost, even though cell phones are dropping prices every quarter.
as long as we, the consumers purchase, they will keep prices high. it is a consumer based economy you know lol
No purchase for me. Not even close to being worth it. It needs to be at least a week early and 50% off all DLC to even be considered.
Can&8217;t wait to see some Game Changers &8212; or OS Staffers, same thing &8212; come out with their blogs saying how well this &8220;idea&8221; is being received. LoL
Suckers!
If you choose to buy the &8216;Season Ticket&8217; (something I wouldn&8217;t recommend) wait until the last minute to do so. Apparently it runs 365 days and doesnt lock to five titles. Madden 13 will release on August 28th 2012. If you wait until the 26th/27th to buy it, according to the guys at The Gaming Tailgate you&8217;ll be able to squeeze in two Madden&8217;s (as you&8217;d be downloading Madden 13 on August 25th).
i guess i will be in the minority of ppl who LIKE this & i will be buying it if it shows up on the PSN today ! my logic is this , i look at it like merely a way to get a 1up albeit 3 days on most of my PSN list & i am totally in vor of this !
you must not be following the discussions on twitter those game changers have been defending it all morning
Of course. Which is why some DLC sells well or Ultimate Team brings in millions of dollars.
The important thing is try to educate people so that they know this isn&8217;t a good deal. Or if they choose to buy they do so because they really believe its a good value for them.
They aren&8217;t going to not carry Madden since it&8217;s one of the biggest releases of the year & the stores would be giving up considerable revenue but some of EA&8217;s lesser known titles like the one I mentioned that don&8217;t sell as well? It&8217;s a potential.
Now we know why EA Sports has been using all kinds of nickel and dime strategies the past few years. It sounds like they&8217;re hoping a lot of people are already used to paying $10 bucks for some scouting reports or dynasty boosters, and now all those people will see this as a discount. Hell, they might even be right &8211; I&8217;d just be angry if this business model starts to seep down into the core experience of the game.
How about the $60 I just gave you for NCAA that is not finished. &8230; and what about t. Screw it I can&8217;t even talk about this&8230;&8230;&8230;&8230;&8230;.
Ahh i see , thx for the heads up&8230;i will wait until the last minute & i WILL buy it cause unlike u my friend i dont get early review copies to enjoy & honestly with the lack of smaller mom & pop stores around to take advantage of pre-release day sales i realize this will be as close as i get to that.
I&8217;m in the same boat as you and anyone else. Any time I have early coverage its cause I&8217;ve gotten ahold of a copy I&8217;ve had to pay for (usually well over the retail price). I still can&8217;t recommend it based on what&8217;s being offered, but ultimately its a decision each person makes on their own.
Correct. But I just mentioned in the comments wait until the last minute to buy it if you choose to do so and you&8217;ll be able to sneak in Madden 13 to your year subscription too.
That was something I considered when it was in the survey the possibility of a full week early. 3 days though wouldn&8217;t seem to be an influence on that.
LoL&8230;I just finished reading some of the Game Changers&8217; twitter feeds over lunch. Those guys are clowns.
Pasta, you can do what you like, but I&8217;d caution against repeating what the Game Changers are saying. Next year at this time, if it turns out to be not true (and my guess is EA will say, &8220;we always said it would be 5 games), everyone will remember where they heard the mis-information. From you, not the Game Changer that gave you the lse information.
Anyone remember the days where $49.99 got you a full football game for the Sega Genesis? Now, it&8217;s $59.99 for the game, $ for DLC, $ for Season Ticket, $ for Online Pass, $ for palming Peter Moore&8217;s balls. Ridiculous.
im sorry but ive got something called patience, it seems the only good use for this is getting the games 3 days earlier, i will wait, because one its 25 bucks, in my opinion thats not worth it considering its gonna take a day to download the game to your console,logo polo shirts. World of Warcraft Gold. and for what to play it a couple days early, to get a jump on achievements,Uncategorized. sports game achievements arent hard, you just put it on the lowest difficulty and turn of penalties like offside and stuff like that, you can easily knock these achievements on, so once again, what purpose do you get out of this, your paying 85 dollars for one game, think about it that way
if you don&8217;t want it, don&8217;t get it. It gives you benefits, it doesn&8217;t change anything about the games. it&8217;s not like you have to get it in order to play online, or a game mode
That $50 in the early 90&8242;s is easily $60 today. Plus, there was no &8220;online&8221; so of course everything else you listed wasn&8217;t around. Everything except the money for balls palming. That&8217;s always been $15.
Sounds like something only the people who buy every single major EA Sports game, every single year, will want. I only buy NCAA usually and I don&8217;t want to spend $25 to play the game 3 days early.
I&8217;m 27 years old and I&8217;ve been playing video games ever since I can remember, but I swear with the recent trends the video game industry has started with micro-transactions, online passes, and subscriptions for &8220;premium&8221; content, I am ready to give them up.
Who the hell wants to pay 25 dollars in advance for a &8220;premium&8221; service when I can&8217;t even depend on you to create a premium game on a year-to-year basis. I&8217;m sick of the nickel and diming. This industry has been booming ,even in a bad economy badge makerWorcester Telegram & Gazette, and all they do is find ways to milk us for every last drop.
Games nowadays don&8217;t even come out ready out the box anymore. Look at NBA 2K11 and NCAA 12. These games release with fundamentally broken issues that should have been ironed out before release, but because you can just slap a band-aid on it a month later and patch it up, devs don&8217;t even have the decency to put-out a finished product.
Take your Season Ticket and shove it.
We need to act like the NFLPA on this one NOBODY buy into it until they change it to atleast a week before release! SOLIDARITY 3 days is some bs and break it down 5 dollars for each early release because if i dont play Fi why would i want the full game early?
Actually what was $50 dollars in 1993 would cost you $74.48 today. I have no problem with it. its an add on. Some people pay through the nose to get the game early..good for them. I wont pay for it.. You don&8217;t have to pay for it. some people will.
scratch all of that we paying to get the game 3 days early when it was suppose to be out on the 2nd week in Aug. anyway thats crazy. theres no good excuse why that game isnt coming out on Aug 8th
scratch all of that we paying to get the game 3 days early when it was suppose to be out on the 2nd week in Aug. anyway thats crazy. theres no good excuse why that game isnt coming out on Aug 8th
Sounds interesting but Madden and NCAA are the only EA Titles I buy so I don&8217;t see me getting this.
So let me get this straight&8230;
– I can play a new EA title for three days before its released (The only titles I play are Madden and NHL) So I get to play NHL 12 three days before release and after the three days I stll have to drop the 60 bucks on it. This is more like &8220;Glorified Renting&8221;. Last time I checked though Blockbuster didnt charge 25 dollars for a 3 day game rental
-&8221;Discounted Download Content&8221;??? You mean after paying $25 you dont even get some download content for free? or even half off? Looks like the Ultimate team nerds will eat this up but I dont even use the mode based on the ct that you have to pay money to build a team&8230;i&8217;ll skip thanks
-Free Premium Web Content = Watch nerds give you &8220;pointers&8221; to get you &8220;ahead in your game&8221;. Dumb tutorial videos about that you have already learnd&8230;and ooooo!!! I get a cooler logo for my FIFA team:)
Membership Recognition= A lame 11 logo showing everyone that you were dumb enough to buy the subscrption plan&8230;lets make sure to harass everyone who has &8220;a badge&8221;
Peace
LMAO YY WUD I PAY 4 SEASON TICKET 2 GET AN EA GM EARLY WEN&8230;&8230;&8230;&8230;.
EA GMS R WEAK LMAO IT DONT MAKE N e SENSE
LMAO YY WUD I PAY 4 SEASON TICKET 2 GET AN EA GM EARLY WEN&8230;&8230;&8230;&8230;.
EA GMS R WEAK LMAO IT DONT MAKE N e SENSE
Burn your $25 rather than spending money on this &8220;season ticket&8221; aka gar-.
I can&8217;t wait to meet tools who has the badge online.
OS is probably owned by EA
If I buy this, it would hinge on being able to play online from the time I can download it three days early,Vibram Five Fingers Shoes Sale. and not just be able to play the game offline and get the message, &8220;EA servers are down&8221;, because they don&8217;t put them up until release day. Unfortuneately, I don&8217;t know if there&8217;s any way to be certain that the EA online servers for these games will be up three days early, and I only play online, so that would kill it for me.
its ppl like you that EA laugh their in asses off at. &8220;Like really did these fools actually buy this in rip off&8221; hahaha. your an idiot bro. u might as well wipe your ass with that 25 bucks.
I personally have no plans to purchase this, but I il to see where the outrage is coming from. EA is simply trying to make money, just like every other business ever created, and it&8217;s not like they made downloading this mandatory to play their games.
Not sure where you&8217;re getting your logic.
II used to pay $16.99 for cds in &8217;93&8230;now most albums I buy on iTunes for 9.99 or less.
I really want to sit back and not think about the corporate BS that EA throws at me but, I can&8217;t do it. Why the does EA always do this ? It&8217;s too much. The only guy that would want a 3day advantage is a spoiled frat boy that probably lives with his mother.
Honestly, Do you people give a damn about &8220;Madden Ultimate team&8221; or the Madden shop? It&8217;s clearly a way to cash in on us. If I pay $65 then that&8217;s all I want out of a sports video game. I&8217;m not looking to buy random BS, I&8217;m just looking for simulation in my sports video game and EA is not delivering.
You add double hit tackles in 2011 when it was already implemented in a 2004 video game. What the Fuck?
Other than still us pay for downloadable content (Come on EA $25 isn&8217;t enough?!) one big problem I see with Madden 12 is the first roster update. Will it be available on the 27th with the digital download? I&8217;m gonna bet they will not release it until the 30th with the disc.
Other than still us pay for downloadable content (Come on EA $25 isn&8217;t enough?!) one big problem I see with Madden 12 is the first roster update. Will it be available on the 27th with the digital download? I&8217;m gonna bet they will not release it until the 30th with the disc.
First off the Madden Shop is a sham. The stuff they offer were unlockables on last gen Madden called &8220;Madden Cards&8221;.
This &8220;Ultimate Team&8221; is another sham April 2011, They get stupid sheep to buy this and have pride on how they bought virtual football cards from a virtual pack that randomly gives the consumer random cards. Who&8217;s to say there random, There could be a trick behind it but, that&8217;s a conspiracy.
I can&8217;t believe how much money this company makes. They have the worlds largest motion capture studio, they make money off there portable version(ipods and etc), they make money off the Madden Shop and Ultimate teams, they make money off used video game sales(if you want to play online), they profit in every single way you could think of.
That&8217;s why when the madden team says &8220;Well we only had a year to develop the game&8221; that&8217;s just BS at its finest cause there there money and resources they could make the greatest football game ever.
I have a feeling were gonna get a good game from EA when they lose the exclusive rights.
for real pasta if you could get the game a week in advance then were talking three days though&8230; I have the patience to wait
my concern is if you purchase this will you get the online pass to play online or will you have to wait to get the retail version.
