{"id":54612,"date":"2013-05-31T09:35:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T07:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=54612"},"modified":"2013-05-31T09:36:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T07:36:46","slug":"ea-discontinues-online-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/54612-ea-discontinues-online-pass","title":{"rendered":"EA discontinues Online Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"

After EA initially announced that the company would be doing away with the Online Pass feature in the next-generation of consoles<\/a>, the publisher has revealed that it will be dropping all forms of the pay scheme immediately with an update on the current-gen consoles.<\/span><\/p>\n

“As we discontinue Online Pass for our new EA titles, we are also in the process of eliminating it from all our existing EA titles as well,\u201d said EA. \u201cWe heard the feedback from players and decided to do away with Online Pass altogether.\u201d<\/p>\n

The discontinuation of the online pass will allow gamers to buy and play second hand games\u2019 multiplayer features without having to pay a fee.<\/p>\n

“Players will see it first with some EA Sports titles, where a prompt to enter an Online Pass code will no longer appear in-game; with other titles we are simply making Online Passes available free of charge online.<\/p>\n

“These are rolling updates that are taking effect over the next several weeks. We hope players continue to enjoy our games and online services for a long time to come,\u201d added EA.<\/p>\n

NeoGAF users have already spotted a number of Xbox 360 games which have received updates and have done away with the online pass, such as Bad Company 2, Bulletstorm, Skate 3, Mass Effect 2 and Shift 2.<\/p>\n

Source: CVG<\/a><\/h6>\n

More EA news:<\/h3>\n

Mirror\u2019s Edge 2 pops up, again<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Need for Speed Rivals revealed: a driving MMO?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

EA bailing on the Wii U?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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