"requires EA Play subscription"

[MaChao]

After many incredibly disappointing releases this year, WRC actually turned out to be a highlight...until i saw that actual gameplay content ("Moments", basically historical Rally's) were locked behind a pointless subscription...

Why? The game already has a "Battle Pass" that's split between Free / VIP / EA Play.
I was somewhat fine with it. It's just cosmetics.
But actual gameplay content?
You want 4 bucks a month so i can access content in a game i bought?

I find it genuinely baffling how you can make actually solid games and consistently ruin things by being this desperate and greedy?
EA Play Pro is a great thing. It's your own "Game Pass". And for people who love your backcatalog, that's a fantastic deal.

But why make the experience of customers who just want to buy and play your games worse? If they are your Pro demographic, they wouldn't have bought the game.
And if they bought the game, they aren't your subscription demographic.

Is it really so difficult to *just* make a good game?

[flibityjibbit]

There's like one "Moment" locked away :s Oh the horror!

[Vanrayne]

Originally posted by flibityjibbit:

There's like one "Moment" locked away :s Oh the horror!

I think it's a matter of consistency and principles.

[flibityjibbit]

Originally posted by Vanrayne:

Originally posted by flibityjibbit:

There's like one "Moment" locked away :s Oh the horror!

I think it's a matter of consistency and principles.

Erm, sure.

Here's a joke (modified from the original Australian).

How do you know when a plane full of gamers has landed?

The engines have stopped but you can still here the whining :D

(In the original Australian it's not gamers it's pommies (brits) just for the record)

[Highway]

ironically if you have gamepass you get ea play basic for free

[MaChao]

Originally posted by flibityjibbit:

There's like one "Moment" locked away :s Oh the horror!

Yup, it's just a bit of content from a game i bought locked behind an external subscription service i shouldn't need to access it that will be forever lost should the servers get terminated eventually. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Oh and the whining you hear?
That's just the draft between your ears mate. Don't worry about it.

[flibityjibbit]

Originally posted by MaChao:

Originally posted by flibityjibbit:

There's like one "Moment" locked away :s Oh the horror!

Yup, it's just a bit of content from a game i bought locked behind an external subscription service i shouldn't need to access it that will be forever lost should the servers get terminated eventually. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Oh and the whining you hear?
That's just the draft between your ears mate. Don't worry about it.

The info was available before you purchased the game & you could have chosen not to buy it based on said info.

If you were whining about something significant perhaps I would have more sympathy...

No Telemetry on Launch
No VR on Launch
No VR for Playstation
Performance issues
crashes
glitches
etc

But your moaning about something that was known about before you bought it, which consists of, not being able to drive a short piece of track in a certain scenario, which you can drive in all other modes, with the same car. :s

Anyways, no time for this. I'm off to enjoy a good Rally game that's just been released, which may not be perfect but is fun and reasonably priced :D

[Wongar]

i have gamepass + EA play, but i cannot chose it too.