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PilusPrimus's avatar
PilusPrimus
3 years ago

Re: Child account, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and EA Play

I was just looking into EA play subs for my son, as I have game pass and he can access games since he's "family" except for EA play games.

I learned that EA play subscriptions are per account, per platform.

This means that in order for your son to use EA Play on windows, you would need a separate subscription to EA Play for Windows. Your xbox EA Play subscription with Game Pass doesn't include it. The same goes for Steam on windows - if you want to access EA Play games on Steam you need a separate one for doing it that way as well.

The age restriction issue if your son is under 13 years old is a separate issue - I feel that pain also.

Hope this helps you. J

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  • MinedAura194617's avatar
    MinedAura194617
    3 years ago

    Thanks for taking time out to reply. It’s was helpful. And I think I understand clearly. Would another way to summarise what you have wrote is that I need to pay EA too with an account subscription also?

    When you create a MS Xbox PC game pass and pay for it, the auto setup asks you to create an EA play account and link it. That’s fine and the process is fairly automated via the game pass set up….

    what it does not say is you have to pay EA. 

    my expectation was to be able to play EA games based on my game pass subscription 

  • Cynlol's avatar
    Cynlol
    3 years ago
    @MinedAura194617 No you are correct that if you pay for Xbox Game Pass you should have access to all the EA Play games at no additional cost ( does not include the premium EA Play Pro games however).

    The above replies were alluding to the need to pay a seperate subscription for each platform you want to use EA Play on. For example, if I have a PS5 and subscribe to EA Play, I cannot login and use EA Play on my Xbox or within Steam (they will ask you for payment).

    The one exception for this may be with Game Pass ultimate as that is one subscription that covers Xbox and PC, and both include EA Play.

    The way EA has handled this is pretty confusing and anti consumer but I've made my thoughts clear on that in other posts.
  • MinedAura194617's avatar
    MinedAura194617
    3 years ago

    @CynlolThanks for taking time out to reply. Good to know. Do you have any idea on how I fix it? It seems clear my subscription is good and it should give me EA play access. Thanks

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