Origin access PREMIUM (soon)

eekfek · 21 Jun 2018 at 19:33

So, they are going to offer a premium service which will be roughly £12 a month or £75 (approx) a year.

I think it could be a viable option for me.

So, what's the difference between Basic and Premier?

Our Basic membership gets you:

the chance to try out our new games for up to ten hours, starting five days before release, with Play First Trials

access to The Vault, a library of games that just keeps growing all the time. Play any games that have already been added, as much as you want.

the 10% discount in the Origin Store on full games, pre-orders, expansions, FIFA points, and more

Premier will give you:

full, unlimited access to our games, starting five days before they release

That’s right, no more limited-time trials. Play the full game starting five days before launch without purchasing it separately, until you cancel your Premier membership.

access to The Vault, a library of games that just keeps growing all the time.

the same 10% discount in the Origin Store on full games, pre-orders, expansions, FIFA points, and more

Paul_cz · 21 Jun 2018 at 19:36

This would be an amazing offer if EA actually developed any appealing games, but since they don't, I'll just stick to base 25 euro per year subscription.

chroniclard · 21 Jun 2018 at 19:38

Current scheme has been quite good for me, well my son anyway, hes played loads of stuff.

£75 a year seems ok, even if you only play 3 or 4 titles.

Marky · 21 Jun 2018 at 19:39

I've been reading it's going to be £14.99 a year :confused:

Seems like a good deal nonetheless...

eekfek · 21 Jun 2018 at 19:53

Marky said:
I've been reading it's going to be £14.99 a year

Seems like a good deal nonetheless...

Maybe £14.99 a month, not a year hehe.

I could see myself buying the new Madden, Battlefield and Anthem so combined cost would be a lot more than a years subscription to premium.

Marky · 21 Jun 2018 at 19:53

eekfek said:
Maybe £14.99 a month, not a year hehe.

I could see myself buying the new Madden, Battlefield and Anthem so combined cost would be a lot more than a years subscription to premium.

Oop!

Yep, sorry that should be £14.99 a month.

DaleTheWhale · 21 Jun 2018 at 20:56

Premier sounds good if they mean ALL games, Origin Access for £20 a year is pretty good as it is.

Spacedeck · 21 Jun 2018 at 21:21

So this is worth it if and only if you want to play the latest games in the series?

Hopefully they don't change the price for basic as it's still a steal at £20.

heartburnron · 21 Jun 2018 at 21:29

Not sure I'd get my moneys worth for £14.99 a month. I just hope they start restricting games for the premium service that otherwise would have been made available for the standard access... actually that's highly likely to happen isn't it?

varkanoid · 21 Jun 2018 at 21:51

For premium membership read Game Testers five days before release. They have to get someone to iron out the bugs for the zero day 10gig patch !

Save money on proper game testers

Robin Gregg · 21 Jun 2018 at 22:24

Hopefully more company's will be going down this route which will drop the price more.

NoobCannon · 21 Jun 2018 at 22:29

Gotta make up for the missing micro transactions and dwindling sales somehow.

So they rope you into a monthly contract instead.

Jae-So · 21 Jun 2018 at 23:15

Wait so you get all you can eat access to all their games? So FIFA, BFV etc all on release?

spinrs2k · 22 Jun 2018 at 01:13

Id probably pay £75 a year to play for all latest games, BFV, Anthem, Fifa etc seems good value

Spacedeck · 22 Jun 2018 at 09:48

Jae-So said:
Wait so you get all you can eat access to all their games? So FIFA, BFV etc all on release?

Yep, seems that way. https://www.origin.com/gbr/en-us/store/origin-access/ea_play they have a list of games on here that says Premier members will be able to play soon.

Finners · 22 Jun 2018 at 10:20

On the face of it, £75 a year sounds good value if you buy their games every year and I would be tempted.

Being realistic though I tend to buy a game and play it to death. BF1 over 400 hours and I'm on PUBG now with over 300hours and that's about 2 years worth of gaming for me.

CHokKA · 22 Jun 2018 at 10:42

Paul_cz said:
This would be an amazing offer if EA actually developed any appealing games, but since they don't, I'll just stick to base 25 euro per year subscription.

If they don't develop any appealing games, why are you paying for the base subscription? Your post contradicts itself...

I recently subscribed to Access through my Xbox One. It was a no-brainer. £19.99 for the year, or I could buy Unravel for £15, which I wanted to play at the time. Now I've got access to games that I loved playing on my 360, Skate 3, and SSX, plus some of the BF games and also Mass Effect on my Xbox. I feel that it was very good value for money. I'm just a little sad that it's a separate subscription for the PC. I don't want to pay twice.

MikeTheNative · 22 Jun 2018 at 10:47

I think it's a good idea, whether it's worth it for me though is a different question. Do you get all DLC released as well?

Spacedeck · 22 Jun 2018 at 13:54

MikeTheNative said:
I think it's a good idea, whether it's worth it for me though is a different question. Do you get all DLC released as well?

I would guess that will depend on the game. I can't see them giving access to the entire catalogue of Sims 4 for example but BFV doesn't have a season pass anymore, so they must be phasing them out. I think they might want payment towards expansions for something like Anthem though. If they decide to include everything in Premier, including DLC / Expansions. This is one great deal.

Paul_cz · 22 Jun 2018 at 19:02

CHokKA said:
If they don't develop any appealing games, why are you paying for the base subscription? Your post contradicts itself...

I recently subscribed to Access through my Xbox One. It was a no-brainer. £19.99 for the year, or I could buy Unravel for £15, which I wanted to play at the time. Now I've got access to games that I loved playing on my 360, Skate 3, and SSX, plus some of the BF games and also Mass Effect on my Xbox. I feel that it was very good value for money. I'm just a little sad that it's a separate subscription for the PC. I don't want to pay twice.

They are actually adding lot of third party games, just recently I liked Surge, Batman Arkham Origins, This is the police...no contradiction at all. Plus there are lot of great older EA games. I just wish they made new great ones, but for example the latest NFS games are trash, they canceled the singleplayer Star Wars game..