A few weeks ago, many gamers were excited that EA decided to get rid of online passes for all of their future games. Now it has been revealed that older games in their library will no longer need them too.
An EA representative told IGN the following:
“As we discontinue Online Pass for our new EA titles, we are also in the process of eliminating it from all our existing EA titles as well. We heard the feedback from players and decided to do away with Online Pass altogether.
Players will see it first with some EA Sports titles, where a prompt to enter an Online Pass code will no longer appear in-game; with other titles we are simply making Online Passes available free of charge online.
These are rolling updates that are taking effect over the next several weeks. We hope players continue to enjoy our games and online services for a long time to come.”
Here are the games that are now free of online passes:
-Alice: Madness Returns
-Battlefield 3
-Battlefield: Bad Company 2
-Bulletstorm
-Dead Space 2
-Dead Space 3
-Dragon Age 2
-Dragon Age: Origins
-Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
-Mass Effect 2
-Mass Effect 3
-Medal of Honor
-Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
-Need For Speed: The Run
-Need For Speed: Shift 2
-Skate 3
-The Sims 3
The main reason EA is getting rid of online passes is because the Xbox One has some sort of DRM system that will make used games more expensive to play and harder for you to share games. Sony has been quiet about its plans for used games on the PS4.