Origin Access is EA's new PC gaming subscription service

[OrbitalDawn]

And it's promising 'endless PC gaming' for $5 a month

EA has operated an Xbox One subscription service called EA Access for about a year and a half now, and the gaming giant is taking a similar step into the world of PC gaming with its new Origin Access program. At a glance, it offers Windows gamers the same kinds of benefits Xbox One subscribers have enjoyed since summer 2014. (Sorry, Mac gamers — you're out in the cold for now.)

For $5 a month, subscribers gain access to EA's Vault, a free, continuously growing collection of some of the publisher's older games and selected third-party titles. (PC launch titles include Dragon Age: Inquisition, Battlefield Hardline, The Sims 3, FIFA 15, SimCity, and more.) They're also given access to pre-release trial versions of new EA games, access that's revoked upon the game's release date. The first trial being made available is for the yarn-based platform Unravel. Origin Access users can play the game on February 4th, and they'll have access for five days before it's wide released on February 9th. Finally, Origin Access subscribers receive an additional 10 percent off on all of their Origin purchases.

 

[Chevron]

Meh.

 

[ODTech]

And it's promising 'endless PC gaming' for $5 a month

Sounds like a cash grab.

I totaly abandoned my Origin account, their just peddling expansions for battlefield these days. The last games that came from them that i enjoyed was the dead space trilogy.

 

[faniebraai]

So is anyone a origin access member?
R48 a month, and there seems to be some decent titles...

TitanFall 2 being added Aug 1

 

[ODTech]

So is anyone a origin access member?
R48 a month, and there seems to be some decent titles...

TitanFall 2 being added Aug 1

Definitely not me. I already own most of what is good on there and besides, i don't like them enough to throw money at them anymore.