EA Sports Premium Package; Anyone Buying this?

[Money99]

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/118/1185442p1.html

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For an annual fee of $24.99 (2000 Microsoft Points), subscribers get four perks: Early access to all participating EA Sports titles three days before release; a 20-percent discount on downloadable content; free premium web content; and a membership recognition badge displayed both in-game and on the user's EA Sports profile.

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Season Ticket currently applies to Madden NFL 12 and the upcoming releases of NHL, PGA Tour, NCAA Football, and FIFA titles. Subscribers can download a full, digital version of each game three days prior to its retail release, however the digital game will time out once the game officially launches.

[plaidchuck]

Nooo thank you.. $60 is already too much for the game.. I thought this is what things like "Playstation Plus" and xbox gold accounts were for..

[UCL]

Nope. I think I can manage to wait 3 days before playing a game.

[LingeringRegime]

Hell to the no. I put enough money into their pockets.

[plaidchuck]

Actually I go back on what I said, this will be a good thing for the community as we'll have a ton of impressions and reviews before the game comes out. It will also help people on the fence whether they should buy this game on release day or wait. EA might be shooting themselves in the foot on this one.

[RealmK]

Greedy greedy EA, 60 for the retail game, 25 dollars a year to get maybe some "exclusive" web tips from the devs or what not, (we all know the exclusive stuff will be cheesy) and 20% off DLC? Shouldn't that 25 bucks cover some DLC to begin with? Not impressed.

[FBeaule04]

Wow, just wow!

25$ to get insight on the game, insight will get in october anyway when every cheesy and glitching tactics (including how to get more point to your BaP) will be spread out on the net.

You know, the way I see this, next step is to have all the offline modes for 60$, then pay an extra to get the EA Pass and all the modes for online play for 1600 MS Points.

Note : EA will make sure that the offline game is necessary to access online options!

[LuGer33]

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You know, the way I see this, next step is to have all the offline modes for 60$, then pay an extra to get the EA Pass and all the modes for online play for 1600 MS Points.

I don't really follow this logic. The service as it is now is entirely optional and by no means is EA "forcing" anyone to subscribe, so how do you make the jump from what is to what you suggested?