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EA Introduces "Online Pass" To Get In On Used Games Market 223

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday May 11, 2010 @06:29AM from the gee-thanks dept.

EA Sports has unveiled a new feature that they hope will help them get a piece of the lucrative used games market: the Online Pass. Each of their new titles will come with a one-time code that allows access to "premium" content and features. Players who buy the games used can get the same content, but will need to pay $10 for the privilege. "According to EA, the content can include anything from title updates and downloads to features like online leagues — and even online gameplay and multiplayer modes. ... EA will offer 10-day trials of Pass content so that users can see what they would be getting. So far, EA seems to be limiting the premium add-on experiment to its sports portfolio. ... The company has apparently gained the support of retailer GameStop, which has been watching with a close eye efforts on the part of publishers to discourage its thriving used games business. According to the retailer, encouraging premium content add-ons still benefits GameStop, since it sells PlayStation Network and Microsoft Points cards. It praised EA's Online Pass as 'forward-thinking.'"

Comment It's for competitiveness against PocketPC (Score 5, Informative) 161

by fer on Friday April 18, 2003 @05:48AM (#5758184) Attached to: Palm Memory Maximum Increased

This looks to me like Palm's plan for remaining competitive against handhelds like Sony's that can add more memory in via memory stick.

Palmsource is responsible for the PalmOS which is used by both Sony *and* Palm devices. It has nothing to do with flash memory (which is used by both hardware brands).

With this development, all Palmsource licensees including Sony and Palm can use up to 128MB internal memory to remain competitive with PocketPC devices.

Comment Re:CAD Program (Score 1) 189

by bigengineer on Tuesday November 09, 1999 @02:25AM (#1550149) Attached to: Bringing CAD to Linux

They (sdrc) want someone to be responsible for the OS. With linux, there is not 1 person or 1 office or what so ever. If they want changes in the OS they seem to want someone doing it for them who they can hold responsible. This is at least more less what I have been told by SDRC representatives. As soon as speak one I will start nagging (again)

I would love to see I-DEAS on linux. If they would just start with the 2D part which is very good (compared to autocad)

Is PTC still thinking about porting pro/e to linux BTW?

Dirk

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