So you spend the first few days of your subscription not able to play cause you're downloading EA's entire game [...]
So you spend the first few days of your subscription not able to play cause you're downloading EA's entire game library (which is going to take up a massive amount of HD space), or you download as you go? then when you end your subscription it just erases them, or do the files lock up? Unless you're talking about actual game streaming, which OnLive failed to do but EA might be able to manage, the comparison with Netflix just doesn't work.
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Stabby_Joe
And this is why Steam is better than Origin.
Here we go again: the infamous games, and by extension software, as service model. It's dead, moribund as it can [...]
Here we go again: the infamous games, and by extension software, as service model. It's dead, moribund as it can be. Software is a product produced for sale to the end-user. Treating it as a service removes ownership from the buyer and keeps in the hands of the producer. The end result is that companies like EA make their nut coming and going.
I'm of the opinion that unless EA changes it's business model it will be relegated to irrelevancy a few years. Note to Peter: people still like buying games on disc.
