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EA Access Gives You Just Six Hours Of Madden NFL 15 Gameplay

  01:21 PM - August 18, 2014 by Steve_OS

The official EA Access twitter account today confirmed that the platform will only support six hours of Madden NFL 15 gameplay. Considering EA Sports Season Ticket offers Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 users access to the game for three full days, this news comes as a disappointment for Xbox One fans.

Without a Madden NFL 15 demo, EA Access and EA Sports Season Ticket is the only way consumers can play the game early. Unfortunately, EA Access is exclusive to the Xbox One, which means PlayStation 4 gamers are left out in the cold on any early access period.

While EA Access certainly has its benefits with The Vault, the sports gamer looked at the deal as a no-brainer, since it offered early access to games. However, with time limits set to just six hours of gameplay, that could deter many of them.

While EA Sports has confirmed demos for both NHL 15 and FIFA 15, we would like to hear from the community concerning the six hour gameplay limit for Madden NFL 15 on EA Access.

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# 481 Gorilla Glass @ 08/19/14 11:14 AM
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Originally Posted by aholbert32
I dont get your point here. A trial can be a whole weekend or 1 hr. Season Ticket was considered a trial too.
A trial period is a non specific time period and Season Ticket is more of a 'trial' because subscribers weren't afforded full access.
 
# 482 speedtrucker @ 08/19/14 11:14 AM
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Originally Posted by aholbert32
I think thats a little disingenuous. There were multiple reasons to get your hopes up.

1) With the exception of the Vault, this program is very similar to EA's Season Ticket. Its not unreasonable to assume that Access would be similar to Season Ticket when it came to game trials.

2) There is no reason to limit sports games to amount as low as a 6 hrs. This isnt Dragon Age where someone could beat the game within those hrs. Shoot, even with Season Ticket I wasnt able to complete a mode in any sports game with the entire weekend.

3) EA was being purposely vague about the length of time for sports games with the "no shorter than 2 hrs" line. They knew people would assume it would be similar to ST and Madden fans who were overeager would jump the gun and subscribe to the service. "No shorter" is open ended and could mean the entire weekend or 2 hrs and 1 minute. The only thing people had to go on was the time they give for ST.

Now should people have waited before purchasing? Sure. Thats why I'm not mad about the one month I paid for. But lets not act like EA didnt play a role in people getting their hopes up.

1. with the exception... that's like the main selling point they made about EA Access. the first thing promoted by EA was the Vault, then the 10% discount and then the early access.

2. I guess, I not really gonna argue the point with you but I'll say that if I had 5 full days with Madden that I would not be buying the game after that. granted, I'm not buying madden this year(I'll wait for it to be added to the vault) but 5 full days including a weekend and I'd have 6 months of play logged.

3. I'll rent you my car for $50, you can use it for at least 2 hours this weekend. do you think that there might be a possibility that you're only gonna be able to use it for 2 hours? I get what you are saying that there is a portion of the crowd that will jump to conclusions and right away think 5 DAYS UNLIMITED!!!! but that was never stated by anyone at EA. when I first bought it and looked at the early access, I actually thought it would be for those who bought madden digitally could play it early for 5 days. I was like welp I'm out, then I reread everything and found out that I would also get access but for 6 hours. fine print is a tricky thing if you don't read it.


for me, I bought EA Access for the vault. I sold my copies of BF4 and FIFA14 for $63, bought the EA Access and had the games back again plus whatever they add between now and next august. the early access thing is icing on the cake, however much time they allow for each title that they give early access to.
 
# 483 ricky24 @ 08/19/14 11:15 AM
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Originally Posted by aholbert32
I dont get your point here. A trial can be a whole weekend or 1 hr. Season Ticket was considered a trial too.

A trial can be any amount of time. That is exactly his point.
 
# 484 aholbert32 @ 08/19/14 11:17 AM
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Originally Posted by ricky24
A trial can be any amount of time. That is exactly his point.
That doesnt make sense because thats exactly what I said in my original post and he used the trial statement as a counter to my post. My point is that they left it purposely vague knowing that people would assume it was similar to ST.

I'm not saying EA is completely in the wrong for this but lets not act like they didnt play a role in creating this confusion or anger from customers.
 
# 485 ubernoob @ 08/19/14 11:18 AM
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Originally Posted by aholbert32
I dont get your point here. A trial can be a whole weekend or 1 hr. Season Ticket was considered a trial too.
I definitely get your point, and I'm not trying to be argumentative (well, too much at least) or worse but...

A) It did say trial. Now you are correct in that nowhere does this imply a time limit.
B) The said a minimum of two hours. I had actually raised my guess to 8-12 hours on twitter when Scott and I talked about this recently. This implies a "relatively" short time period is what they were thinking for.
C) This isn't named Season Ticket, for a reason. Don't put it past EA to bring back Season Ticket before the next Madden in addition to EA Access. EA proper is the king of double dipping and money grubbing practices.

I don't really hang out in the sports games forums proper too much, but everything about this (at least when taken together) was pointing to getting a (relatively) limited time with both Madden and all the other games they will offer in the future on this service.
 
# 486 ManiacMatt1782 @ 08/19/14 11:25 AM
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Originally Posted by iiitroy
It says gameplay hours so can i just browse the MUT menus without the 6 hours going by?
I am sure just the game being booted and being in the menu's constitutes gameplay time.
 
# 487 Beardown @ 08/19/14 11:31 AM
No reason to argue over this in my view, other than to pass the time, to me it is pretty simple. I just needed to answer one question;

Do you think EA would have sold more, the same or less subscriptions if they had said 6 hours at the announcement of the product?

If you answered more or the same you should keep it, if you answered less which is how I answered then you should cancel your renewal as I did. I think EA Access is good value but I cancelled anyway as I think what they did was not treating their customers, me, in the right way.

They will still have a chance to win me back but if not no skin off their nose or mine.
 
# 488 wordtobigbird @ 08/19/14 11:37 AM
I plan on getting an Xbox One asap and will be getting EA Access. Seems like a good value to me. $30 bucks and I don't have to buy BF4, which my friends play a bunch of, and FIFA. I wouldn't have bought either used even though I play both. Budget is tight. So I see it has paying 15 bucks for each. Yeah I don't keep them forever but they will be replaced with other games and if they are wack I can just not renew.

If someone really paid thirty just to play madden 5 days early they have plenty of money to burn so I don't see why they are throwing heat at EA because they assumed something that wasn't stated. No one forced anyone to buy it right away...
 
# 489 Gorilla Glass @ 08/19/14 11:38 AM
Looking over everything that has transpired since yesterday. "5 days early access" could be misleading.

I'll just get refunded and purchase Diablo.
 
# 490 wordtobigbird @ 08/19/14 11:43 AM
Eh I think some of yall are overestimating how many people wanted this to play Madden early.. go over to IGN when the articles about EA access first started comig out. The general gaming community didn't care about Maddens early access at all. Here its a big deal of course but its far from the biggest sellig point. If it was I would agree with you.

Like if this was season ticket, which I think was paying soley to play early right? Then the length of time is the main selling point.
 
# 491 Beastly Wayz @ 08/19/14 11:43 AM
Ouch!!! EA is always letting down the consumer.
 
# 492 ricky24 @ 08/19/14 11:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Gorilla Glass
Looking over everything that has transpired since yesterday. "5 days early access" could be misleading.



I'll just get refunded and purchase Diablo.

It's misleading if you only read that line. It clearly states the trial may only be for two hours.
 
# 493 roadman @ 08/19/14 11:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Beardown

Do you think EA would have sold more, the same or less subscriptions if they had said 6 hours at the announcement of the product?
If it was labeled as 6 hours upfront, I would have still bought it.

Work, marriage and family and I don't have a bunch of free time. I'll barely burn up the 6 hours as is.

For me, it works, for others not like me, probably not.

To each their own on that.

If people go to Steve's first post on EA Access, there is an *. The * at the bottom says something like restrictions and exclusions apply and directs you to the website that states limited playing time. I agree, everyone's interpretation of limited time is subjective and they could have been more crystal clear on that.
 
# 494 Mauer4MVP @ 08/19/14 12:06 PM
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Originally Posted by ManiacMatt1782
I am sure just the game being booted and being in the menu's constitutes gameplay time.
This is what I am wondering as well. If it is just actually in game, then that changes things. I have plenty of things that I could get set up for next Tuesday. If it is from right when you start up the game or push start, then I will have to plan a bit differently.

Also curious to see if you are mid-game and your time runs out if the game just stops.
 
# 495 ricky24 @ 08/19/14 12:25 PM
I don't see why I should ask for a refund just because of this. I have already sunk hours into FIFA. Would be shady of me to ask for refund after already enjoying the product. I knew the madden trial could be for a time as low as two hours.
 
# 496 ricky24 @ 08/19/14 12:46 PM
It was not false advertising.
 
# 497 ubernoob @ 08/19/14 12:54 PM
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Originally Posted by PatsSB2015
It wasn't? So they made the six hours of minimum game play clear from the start?
No they said a minimum of two hours. They met that. No false advertising.
 
# 498 ricky24 @ 08/19/14 12:57 PM
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Originally Posted by PatsSB2015
It wasn't? So they made the six hours of minimum game play clear from the start?

You got triple the minimum amount of play time they said you could possibly get.
 
# 499 charter04 @ 08/19/14 01:34 PM
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Originally Posted by wordtobigbird
Eh I think some of yall are overestimating how many people wanted this to play Madden early.. go over to IGN when the articles about EA access first started comig out. The general gaming community didn't care about Maddens early access at all. Here its a big deal of course but its far from the biggest sellig point. If it was I would agree with you.



Like if this was season ticket, which I think was paying soley to play early right? Then the length of time is the main selling point.

I agree with this. This news really only affects Madden fans. Most of the info I saw about Access was all focused on the vault and 10% discount. The IGN video I watched didn't even mention getting to play games early. Even their reasons for waiting to get Access was all based on the fact that more games will come out later.


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# 500 dkp23 @ 08/19/14 01:35 PM
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Originally Posted by PatsSB2015
The issue is in the details. EA Sports claimed you can try out the game 5 days before release. No details of minimum game play until today? There was no assumption that EA and Microsoft would pull a stunt like that. The fault isn't on the consumer, but the corporation behind it. They should have been clear from the start. It was false advertising.

"f you’re an EA Access member, you can download upcoming EA games five days before the release date to play for a limited time. Madden NFL 15, NHL 15, FIFA 15, NBA LIVE 15 and Dragon Age: Inquisition are all included, with more to come. If you love it, buy it, and you can pick up right where you left off."

You can spin it every way you like and say "well they didnt say how much", still they said for a limited time. Those that thought it would be unlimited was only based on wishful thinking at comparing to ticket which is a different service. Those that think that "a limited time" is referring to the five days, no, they are two separate things and it clearly reads that way.

Putting a 6 hour limit, tell me, how is that false advertising? It is clearly stated that early release trials would be limited time and that was a general statement which spans across the catalog of games.

People can complain that it shouldn't be unlimited since it is a sports game, but that is a different argument. To say it is false advertising is inaccurate.

Those that didn't read the details and opted in, it is their fault so yes, it is the consumers fault in this case because if they actually spent the time reading and not assuming, they would of waited until an announcement. There is no way EA would not announce the limit prior to release, they would have to, now people cry about how it is too late? Too late for what? the game doesnt release until next week. Read the details, make decisions based on the details and move on. Not assume, opt in and get mad because EA didnt give you what you want.

I personally think the limit is stupid, but I read the details that it was a possiblity, I opted in with the expectation that i would cancel after a month which i think a lot of people will do which is probably why it is a limited trial
 


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