{"id":31844,"date":"2012-02-02T12:17:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T10:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=31844"},"modified":"2012-02-02T12:19:09","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T10:19:09","slug":"ea-confirms-no-online-pass-for-syndicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/31844-ea-confirms-no-online-pass-for-syndicate","title":{"rendered":"EA confirms no Online Pass for Syndicate"},"content":{"rendered":"

In today’s news, pigs fly, snow falls in Hell, and EA<\/a> announces that they won’t be attaching Online Passes to Syndicate when it ships out later this month.<\/p>\n

The publisher has made the unexpected decision due to the game’s co-op multiplayer being a major feature.<\/p>\n

“We want as little resistance or barriers to entry as possible,” EA Partners boss Jeff Gamon told Eurogamer. “The co-op is equal billing in this. We wanted everyone who owns a copy of the game to have access to the entire product.”<\/p>\n

According to Gamon, games put out by the EA Partners division aren’t necessarily subject to EA’s general policy about Online Passes, including Portal 2 and Crysis 2, both of which did not include one. Although EA Partners managed the development of Syndicate, however, the game is published by EA.<\/p>\n

“Under normal circumstances it would have had an online pass, but because it didn’t have competitive multiplayer and because we wanted as many people as possible to be playing co-op, we got away with it,” said Gamon.<\/p>\n

“Maybe another reason for not having the Online Pass is we were confident in the scope of the online game.<\/p>\n

“There are nine maps. It’s hard to say, but just to play through the maps once on normal is a good six, seven hours. To progress your character and upgrade a few weapons is a heap of content. That and the single-player campaign means hopefully we won’t see much in the way of early second hand sales and rentals.”<\/p>\n

The game is out 24 February on PC<\/a>, Xbox<\/a>, and PS3<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Syndicate\"<\/a>

Syndicate<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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