[iup=3518873]Saint of Killers[/iup] wrote:Maybe MS are the ones taking the hit.
I think in reality, "gain access" means play a demo, or small portion of the game, then pay a slightly reduced price to "unlock" the full game, there's simply no way it could be what is being portrayed now. When you look at how many copies EA sells of Fifa, battlefield etc, they would basically be saying they don't want money anymore by doing this, and the install base would have to be significantly higher, perhaps by 100x, to make the possibility of gaining enough new subscribers who wouldn't originally have touched an EA game plausible.