{"id":28915,"date":"2011-12-05T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=28915"},"modified":"2011-12-05T12:02:13","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T10:02:13","slug":"ea-clarifies-online-pass-expiry-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/28915-ea-clarifies-online-pass-expiry-drama","title":{"rendered":"EA clarifies Online Pass expiry drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, a forum user on <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20481-NeoGAF\">NeoGAF<\/a> discovered that the Online Pass codes in his new copy of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit had expired, prompting a predictably indignant discussion among other users about how codes are only valid for a certain amount of time, it&#8217;s-right-there-in-the-EULA, &#8220;you are screwed&#8221;, and RANT RANT RANT EVIL CORPORATE EMPIRE RANT RANT RANT.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the responsible people over at Joystiq actually bothered contacting <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11851-Electronic-Arts\">EA<\/a> to find out what the deal actually is. As it turns out, online pass <em>codes<\/em> can expire, but access to the relevant content does not. All you have to do is get a new code from EA, and it&#8217;s free.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s that.<\/p>\n<p>It does seem a bit strange, though. I mean, if they just renew the code or give you a new one, why have the codes expire in the first place? Sounds like a whole lot of tedious admin for nothing, but I suppose that&#8217;s about 99% of big business.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"Joystiq\" href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2011\/12\/03\/ea-online-pass-can-expire-for-new-game-purchases-but-it-should\/\">Joystiq<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Online-Pass.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28941\" title=\"Online Pass\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Online-Pass.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Online-Pass.jpg 960w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Online-Pass-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Online-Pass-80x45.jpg 80w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Online-Pass-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Online-Pass-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Online-Pass-170x96.jpg 170w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Online-Pass-297x167.jpg 297w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Online-Pass-530x298.jpg 530w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Online-Pass-625x351.jpg 625w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Online-Pass-250x140.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The codes expire, but access to content does not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":28943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1429,813,149,1427,1425],"class_list":["post-28915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-drama","tag-electronic-arts","tag-need-for-speed","tag-neogaf","tag-online-pas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28921,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28915\/revisions\/28921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}