The EA Play discount has utterly predatory marketing behind it.

[Jorde]

The cost is listed as 99 cents, but in reality it only saves you $4 on a 60$ a year charge, and finding the real price required scrolling for 20 seconds past a long list of games. The marketing is downright false and intentionally hiding the real price. And Steam is abetting this by making the EA Play impossible to review, and letting the price be hidden.

[Snapjak]

If you (or anyone else) has never seen $XX.99 for the first month then $YY.99 each month after, then you're living a very sheltered life or are super lucky that your area doesn't have such things, because they are stupidly wildly outrageously common.

引用自 Snakub Plissken：

This is as mundane as it gets. Other subscriptions doing a promotion do variations of this. And even the screenshot shows the standard monthly price on discount. Anyone who wants to concoct a wildly favorable scenario before they have all the facts, and pitch a fit about their assumptions being wrong is the problem. Not EA or Steam.

Not only that but it it says right in the first paragraph

And now through March 9, new members can save big on their first month!

引用自 Yasahi：

引用自 Snakub Plissken：

I'm not against people being able to review EA Play. Although everything else about your argument is 100% pure weapons grade bolognium.

What's there to review though? If you're posting about the games, you should be reviewing the games themselves.

It would be nice if we could review EA Play itself (if we can't).It's still a sub-par system compared to the Origin version.

[Start_Running]

引用自 DocShady：

引用自 Jorde：

Mostly talking about this:
https://imgur.com/a/YmUtJY9

The price I saw displayed up front and center was $0.99. But it only saves you 4$, and you have to click the join button, or scroll down for 20 seconds past a long list of games to see the real price. What I saw on the Steam page also didn't navigate me to that store page you showed.

The problem is not so much EA here as it is steam. The screen shot you posted is displaying EA's sale price exactly as steam intended it. There is likely no option to add a small note there saying something like "For the first month only" in that product box. That note is listed in the store page.

Make a post in the suggestions forums. This is not an EA issue

Except that it literally tells you its only for one month on the page the link takes you to.

[Ghraal]

引用自 м：

引用自 Jorde：

EA Play is paying a monthly fee for the ability to play a ton of games for up to 10 hours,.

only the new release games are limited to 10 hours, not the older ones.

So basically you're paying EA money to play a demo.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

引用自 Jorde：

引用自 Crazy Tiger：

How is it predatory when it is literally listed that after the first month it's the normal price?

Mostly talking about this:
https://imgur.com/a/YmUtJY9

The price I saw displayed up front and center was $0.99. But it only saves you 4$, and you have to click the join button, or scroll down for 20 seconds past a long list of games to see the real price. What I saw on the Steam page also didn't navigate me to that store page you showed.

.... You can't be this blind... Zoom in your screenshot...

FYI idk if you know how to do math. $5 - 80% = $1...

That 80% not for show, same with the $4.99 that cross out, and grey....

引用自 Crazy Tiger：

How is it predatory when it is literally listed that after the first month it's the normal price?
https://imgur.com/a/aLxEW27

Edit: Even store pages for games list that EA Play only has that price for the first month: https://imgur.com/a/4etyPuY

^Even this explains in more details when you view the page as well.

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引用自 Ghraal：

引用自 м：

only the new release games are limited to 10 hours, not the older ones.

So basically you're paying EA money to play a demo.

your paying for access to a library of games
some are 10 hour demos and some are full games..

i think this would be great for anyone that has a library
full of games that they play once and never use again
and that spends way more than the monthly or annual
fees

[cinedine]

I like this topic.

It's like TC newer has seen any "first month free" offers. Or my favourite "New iPhone 20 Super Deluxe for only 1 EUR!*"

*only in combination with a super expensive stranglehold contract for at least two years.

引用自 Ghraal：

引用自 м：

only the new release games are limited to 10 hours, not the older ones.

So basically you're paying EA money to play a demo.

If you are only interested in the newest games, kind of. Though ten hours is still quite a lot for a modern game.

Else you also have access to a vast backcatalogue without any restrcitions.

[Tito Shivan]

引用自 DocShady：

The problem is not so much EA here as it is steam. The screen shot you posted is displaying EA's sale price exactly as steam intended it. There is likely no option to add a small note there saying something like "For the first month only" in that product box. That note is listed in the store page.

It's very naive to make the assumption a discount on a recurring charge like a subscription is going to carry on in aeternum.

引用自 cinedine：

It's like TC newer has seen any "first month free" offers. Or my favourite "New iPhone 20 Super Deluxe for only 1 EUR!*".

I like to remind myself every now and then the minimum age to join Steam is 13 and not everyone has the same life-experience others do.

I'm also old enough as to be aware of making a scene and bringing big words to try to have things go your way is a trick as old as life itself.