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Re: Will I have to repurchase EA Play for Steam?

Hey folks,

A few things I can answer:

  • EA Play Pro is available exclusively on Origin.
  • We will deliver EA’s subscription service to Steam on August 31.
  • Our membership is available on each platform for $4.99, or regional equivalent. There is no cross platform subscription at this time.

If you have remaining questions, please let me know.

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  • I have an annual EA Play Origin membership.  Will I be able to switch the remaining months I have over to the Steam platform since they are the same price?

  • Rettznom's avatar
    Rettznom
    5 years ago
    @Straatford87 Well, this is EA we are talking about. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that people who already have an EA Play subscription on Origin will have to repurchase an entirely new subscription for Steam... Thanks for the info anyway...
  • Straatford87's avatar
    Straatford87
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    5 years ago

    @Eviction2Notice 

    No, there is no cross platform, or ability to transfer the subscription at this time.

    @Rettznom 

    On the plus side, with Steam incoming on August 31, there will soon be 4 platforms where you can experience EA Play!

  • A1RW0LF9's avatar
    A1RW0LF9
    5 years ago
    @Straatford87 Maybe people don't want multiple subscriptions to multiple platforms... Maybe people want to access the content they pay for once on multiple platforms... What is it with EA not listening?

    Take a look at Microsoft's Xbox subscription service I can access that on Xbox and PC so why can't EA do the same... Long story short EA can they're just greedy.
  • @A1RW0LF9, from a strictly financial point of view what EA is making makes sense. Strategy wise, it is not the best one to please the clients.
    Financially, we have to understand that when we buy from Steam we are paying to Valve, which takes a portion of the sale and pays a negotiated share of it to EA. If EA wants to "validate" a currently Origin validated EA Play subscription on Steam, Valve would ask for something which EA is definitely not willing to pay.
    If you want to have an EA Play Subscription through Steam you will need of course to pay for it in that platform (which is not owned by EA). The comment you made about XBOX and PC is not comparable, as both platforms are managed by Microsoft.
    What might happen in the future is that with time, when it's time for renewal, you switch your EA Play from Origin to Steam. Which makes sense for me because, as you say, a normal person would prefer to have a single platform from where it launches its games.
    What could deter people from doing this is if not the subscription, but the ability to launch the games and manage the games could be done in either platform, regardless of the subscription where the game was bought. This means that for financial transactions like buying games, buying addons, etc) you would need to manage the game where you bought your subscription, but, and this is a great but, you would have it available on both libraries where the game could be recognized (this means that EA Games which are not supported on Steam would not appear there). If your EA Play subscription expires and you have games bought through it on your Steam library, they would disappear and the same applies to games bought through EA Play on Steam which would disappear from Origin. So this way the problems in the financial approach of the cross platform would be isolated and the flexibility that each player could get to manage both platforms would be an added value.
    In my case, I'll be honest. In the scenario I am seeing, once my subscription expires next May, I will end it and buy it on Steam. If EA enables crossplatform interoperability in a way similar to the one I suggested, I will keep it here and manage things on both platforms.
  • Straatford87's avatar
    Straatford87
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    5 years ago

    @Kabouki1965 

    I'm unable to find anything related to EA Play Pro in that article.

    But to confirm - EA Play Pro is unique to Origin.

  • Kabouki1965's avatar
    Kabouki1965
    5 years ago
    @Straatford87

    As far as I know (and I am paying that for my former called premier subscription), the pricing for the premium version stated in the last article's phrase: "The base price is $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year, while the premium option — which includes early access to all of EA’s new titles — is $14.99 per month or $99.99 annually." is the price for EA Play Pro. Is it the case that it will be called another thing but it has the features and price of EA Play Pro?
  • Straatford87's avatar
    Straatford87
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    5 years ago

    @Kabouki1965 

    So to confirm, It's just EA Play on Steam. There isn't a EA Play Pro variant, and no other naming.

    About interconnectivity - if you play on Steam, you'll still have your EA account linked, so Origin will know which games you have on on Steam. I'd like to add I think how you went about investigating is great; the best way to see how it works is to browse both your Steam and Origin libraries.

    Cheers,

  • X_pilot97's avatar
    X_pilot97
    New Rookie
    5 years ago
    @Straatford87 I've been subscribed to Origin Access Premiere for years now and when it was rebranded to EA Play and was going to come to Steam I got so excited. I'm already paying loads more for the Origin version of Play, and from everything I could see, EA Play on Steam and EA Play on Origin were going to be the same thing.

    I understand that the Origin version provides more games, but I feel like the base ones (the battlefields and such) should also carry over to a steam account.

    What are the technical limitations to adding support for existing customers to access EA games on Steam?
  • CarbonCarl's avatar
    CarbonCarl
    Hero (Retired)
    5 years ago

    @X_pilot97 

    EA Play is the same across all platforms, so Origin, Steam, Xbox and Playstation. The only differences are 1. Some games are made for console only so the PC users won't have access to those and 2. Origin offers 2 subscriptions, EA Play and EA Play Pro.

    EA Play Pro is The old EA Access Premiere which is what you have and is exclusive to Origin likely due to the fees for each platform. Microsoft, Sony and Valve all take around a 30% cut of sales etc.

    This is also likely why there is a separate subscription for each platform, because if you were to buy one subscription from say Origin and use it for all platforms then Microsoft, Sony and Valve would get zero funds from that and wouldn't allow it on their platform if that were the case.

  • dixon77's avatar
    dixon77
    5 years ago

    I am a Pro subscriber and feel like I am being ripped off now. I've paid for a full year in advance so cancelling now would be a waste of my money. Now I am stuck with the Origin launcher which is loaded with bugs and errors even when not being actively used. When I first got an email from EA saying they were improving their service I actually thought that the Origin browser was finally getting a fix, not a lousy re-branding so that Valve would be okay with EA subscription service on their launcher. Seems obvious now, that Valve would not likely allow EA to promote their service by keeping the Origin Access name. By not allowing PC users to use their EA Play memberships across Origin/Steam, it just comes across as greedy. I do understand EA not allowing transfer between PS and Xbox but not across platforms that both reside on PC. I realize that EA Play on Origin has more offerings but Steam is a SUPERIOR launcher in every single regard!!! I was really on the fence about resubscribing this year. If I had known about this move prior I would not have bothered doing so. Hope this changes because this time next year if I am still stranded on the crappy Origin launcher I won't subscribe to either.

  • CarbonCarl's avatar
    CarbonCarl
    Hero (Retired)
    5 years ago

    @SmartBoiYT @A1RW0LF9 @dixon77 

    This isn't entirely down to EA. Valve, Sony and Microsoft all want fees to be paid on their platforms and if EA did a universal EA Play then people could buy EA Play from Origin, play it on all platforms and Sony etc would get nothing from it. If that were the case then none of the platforms would allow EA Play at all.

    As for EA Play Pro, well the same applies except EA want you to use Origin, and EA Play Pro is the incentive to use Origin.

  • A1RW0LF9's avatar
    A1RW0LF9
    5 years ago
    @CarbonCarl Ok so... How come a Microsoft subscription gets me games on my PC and Xbox and yet it's "not possible" for EA to allow you to pay them and choose a launcher for the game.... Considering they are using that launcher to sell the same subscription anyway.... That isn't valve, Sony or anyone else's fault that is EA's marketing team, clawing every penny they can rather then doing something the community as a whole has asked for. And is still questioning their decision on. EA just cannot accept that origin is a failed experiment and whoever pulled the trigger on it and decided it was a good idea is probably sitting in an office with his head hung low trying to think of a way to turn it into a win and this is the outcome 😅 what a joke. When an actual fix and a way to perhaps save face would be to take the time to actually listen to the input of people on these forums rather then copy and paste the same speel over and over.

    Summary - it is possible EA just don't want to do it cause they won't make as much money out of their failed origin store. Remember they made origin to be "exclusive", and "only place for EA" and now they come crawling back to the real world after how many videogame fails... Oh and that whole loot box is gambling thing... Like I said a joke.
  • CarbonCarl's avatar
    CarbonCarl
    Hero (Retired)
    5 years ago
    @A1RW0LF9 Microsoft can do that because they own both Windows and Xbox, but you can’t get game pass on Steam, Origin or PSN.
    You only get it all via the Microsoft store.

    IMO EA would make more money from a universal subscription because they wouldn’t have the fees to pay and very few people I’d say have more than one subscription.
  • Real5me's avatar
    Real5me
    5 years ago

    Will that ever be changed, as I purchased Origin Access (now EA play) to exclusively play Titanfall 2 and get 1000 apex coins for apex legends. Now that Titanfall 2 has been removed from origin Ea play but is still on the steam one i am wondering if I should just cancel my subscription or should I wait for any news.

  • A1RW0LF9's avatar
    A1RW0LF9
    5 years ago

    Exactly, a universal subscription for consoles and pc with progress carryover is what everyone wants. But they don't seem to be even entertaining that idea.

  • Cantiras's avatar
    Cantiras
    Hero (Retired)
    5 years ago

    @Real5me Titanfall 2 is still available on EA Play (Origin). EA has been upgrading the editions of several EA-published games on EA Play (Origin), which has triggered messages about these EA games being removed, but in actuality it is the standard editions of these EA games which are being removed (because they are being replaced by higher editions), not the games in their entirety. Some games have been cycling out of EA Play after a period of two years, but these have been third-party games, not EA-published games.

    If you are seeing notice of Titanfall 2's removal from EA Play (Origin), but you can still play the game via EA Play (Origin), disregard the notice. If you are having issues accessing Titanfall 2 via EA Play (Origin), check to see if you have already been upgraded to the Ultimate Edition (including the Deluxe Edition) content on the Extra Content tab on the game's details page in your library. If that content has not been unlocked, you should be able to upgrade to it. If it has already been unlocked, you might need to clear Origin's cache. If clearing Origin's cache doesn't resolve the issue, you might need to uninstall the game and remove it from your library, then readd it to your library and reinstall it.

  • CarbonCarl's avatar
    CarbonCarl
    Hero (Retired)
    5 years ago

    @A1RW0LF9 

    I agree it would be awesome to have a universal subscription including EA Play Pro, but how would they do it?

    It's easy for EA to say 'hey buy this subscription from Origin and play all the games on any platform' but then how would the other platforms make money from that? This is why I say it's not entirely EA, they have to follow each platforms rules and if each platform don't make money from it then they won't allow EA to do it.

  • A1RW0LF9's avatar
    A1RW0LF9
    5 years ago

    If Sony or Microsoft etc tried to stop them all they'd need to do is make it public as to what is happening and allow the public to judge who is right. I know that Sony and Microsoft want some profit but in the end the public decides what to buy and there's no saying that they can't work out a percentage based deal e.g. someone buys it on origin and activates it on Xbox Microsoft then get a cut otherwise 100% to EA.

    Plus the public want cross platform games, and they want to play on a PC with incredible graphics and then sit on the sofa with friends for couch coop on the xbox/PlayStation. And until PC flushes out coop games it's still in the consoles hands but steam is doing good they have play together no with civ and mortal kombat etc so PC is closing the gap.

  • Just wanted to point out that the EA Play - 12 Month subscription is a sku on steam that EA has the ability to give to every current paying PC EA Play subscriber. That yearly subscription was pretty expensive. 

  • UncleBigfart's avatar
    UncleBigfart
    Rising Newcomer
    4 years ago

    thats literally * crazy. Imagine if hulu charged you $9.99 per month for each different device you watched hulu on. Youre insane for not having cross subscription. Are you shocked when people say EA sucks? 

  • Maysu's avatar
    Maysu
    2 years ago

    I have EA Play (Regular not Pro) and I am trying to play Command and Conquer Generals, but it is not on the EA Play launcher. However it is in Steam, and when I try to add it to my library, it tells me it is included in EA Play and wants me to purchase a new subscription. My EA account and Steam account are already linked, so I am confused why I am unable to add the game to my library if I already own EA Play which I have an annual subscription to.

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