Did EA Play stop releasing games each month? Or are they solely now relying on Xbox Game Pass to furnish new games monthly. If EA Play did stop or only puts out a handful through out the year then what is the incentive or attraction to have a service that fails to provide new games monthly when every other service does. 🤔Not seeing any value to EA Play if you don't play Star Wars or the same game over and over again.

Hi @thykingswedThey don't release games specifically each month for EA Play, they add new titles to the playlist when they can. Usually a newly released game will go to EA Play up to one year later or just before the next title in that series releases. The not so popular performers tend to go on a little earlier.I don't think EA have enough games to add one to EA Play every month.EA Play is £4/$5 per month or £20/$30 per year so it's great value for money. There's a big list of games you can play that would cost you way more if you wanted to purchase them outright.BFV for example is on sale right now and is around half the cost of what you pay for one year of EA Play. That's just one game and that's on sale.The list of available games are here: https://www.ea.com/en-gb/ea-play

Let's break this down. I pay X amount every 3 months for Xbox Game Pass and EA Play. One adds new games every month. Another one doesn't and cost the same as the other service. Great value for your money to get year old games and only a hand full of releases. The cost of games is almost irrelevant as GOG, Humble Bumble, Fanatical, Steam, etc. Have game for sale all the time. Let's look at PS Now for PC, it currently at $5 month. You know what else. Every month, PlayStation adds a few new titles to its PS Now streaming service.Someone is pilfering and just barely putting out content to look like a streaming service. Ask yourself this how would you feel if you had Hulu, Netflix, etc. and they only added a couple movies or a couple TV show yearly instead of monthly.

@thykingswedBut we're not comparing services here, you mentioned value for money and that's what EA Play is, it doesn't matter if another service offers more. You're also forgetting EA can only offer it's own games where as other services can all offer third party games because of their console platforms.If you want to play EA games you either buy them outright or save yourself some money and buy EA Play. If you think it's cheaper to buy outright then go ahead, nobody is forcing your hand here but if you're going to want to play multiple EA games each year then imo EA Play is a no brainer.

Hey @thykingswed new games are added to EA Play on a regular basis. In fact, FIFA 21 is joining the vault today: https://www.ea.com/games/fifa/fifa-21/news/get-more-fifa21-with-ea-play Darko

yea but can not play though its 6th may

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CarbonCarl
Hero (Retired)
5 years ago
Hi @thykingswed

They don't release games specifically each month for EA Play, they add new titles to the playlist when they can. Usually a newly released game will go to EA Play up to one year later or just before the next title in that series releases. The not so popular performers tend to go on a little earlier.
I don't think EA have enough games to add one to EA Play every month.

EA Play is £4/$5 per month or £20/$30 per year so it's great value for money. There's a big list of games you can play that would cost you way more if you wanted to purchase them outright.

BFV for example is on sale right now and is around half the cost of what you pay for one year of EA Play. That's just one game and that's on sale.

The list of available games are here: https://www.ea.com/en-gb/ea-play
thykingswed
5 years ago
Let's break this down. I pay X amount every 3 months for Xbox Game Pass and EA Play. One adds new games every month. Another one doesn't and cost the same as the other service. Great value for your money to get year old games and only a hand full of releases.
The cost of games is almost irrelevant as GOG, Humble Bumble, Fanatical, Steam, etc. Have game for sale all the time.
Let's look at PS Now for PC, it currently at $5 month. You know what else. Every month, PlayStation adds a few new titles to its PS Now streaming service.
Someone is pilfering and just barely putting out content to look like a streaming service. Ask yourself this how would you feel if you had Hulu, Netflix, etc. and they only added a couple movies or a couple TV show yearly instead of monthly.
CarbonCarl
Hero (Retired)
5 years ago
@thykingswed

But we're not comparing services here, you mentioned value for money and that's what EA Play is, it doesn't matter if another service offers more. You're also forgetting EA can only offer it's own games where as other services can all offer third party games because of their console platforms.

If you want to play EA games you either buy them outright or save yourself some money and buy EA Play. If you think it's cheaper to buy outright then go ahead, nobody is forcing your hand here but if you're going to want to play multiple EA games each year then imo EA Play is a no brainer.
EA_Darko
Community Manager
5 years ago
Hey @thykingswed new games are added to EA Play on a regular basis.

In fact, FIFA 21 is joining the vault today: https://www.ea.com/games/fifa/fifa-21/news/get-more-fifa21-with-ea-play

Darko
berksoyugur
5 years ago
yea but can not play though its 6th may
EA_Darko
Community Manager
5 years ago
Hey @berksoyugur, the game will be available at some stage today.

This will depend on a number of factors, platform, geographical location, etc.

Darko
berksoyugur
5 years ago
@EA_Darko does it include xbox game pass ?
EA_Darko
Community Manager
5 years ago
I'm not sure what you mean @berksoyugur?

Darko
berksoyugur
5 years ago
@EA_Darko i have EA Play on xbox app so it should be fine right ? i can play fifa 21 fully
EA_Darko
Community Manager
5 years ago
Yes @berksoyugur the game will be available on Xbox Game Pass today.

Darko