Let’s revisit this one: on May 7, 2019, Electronic Arts confirmed that EA Access, its game subscription service, was finally coming to PlayStation 4, with a debut set for July. For those playing on Sony’s console, it was the end of a wait of almost five years.
The setup was simple: you pay the monthly or annual subscription and get access to a catalog of EA’s own games, the famous Vault, while the account is active. The list included heavyweight franchises such as Battlefield, FIFA, Madden, NHL, UFC and the company’s Star Wars games. In addition, subscribers got discounts on purchasing EA games and DLC and, from time to time, early trials of new releases. On PC, the same kind of service existed under the name Origin Access.
And why did it take so long? EA Access debuted on Xbox One on August 11, 2014, and EA offered the service to both Sony and Microsoft from the start. But Sony refused at the time, saying it did not see enough value for its customers. It was behind-the-scenes beef that lasted years, until the turn of 2019.
At the time of the announcement, the game list for the PS4 version had not yet been disclosed. The expectation was a catalog similar to the Xbox One’s, without the titles that ran there through Xbox 360 backward compatibility.
What came next
The service arrived on PS4 in style on July 24, 2019. In August 2020, EA merged EA Access and Origin Access under a single name, EA Play, with the premium PC version becoming EA Play Pro, and the service also came to Steam on August 31, 2020. On Xbox, EA Play started to be included in Xbox Game Pass Ultimate from November 10, 2020, alongside the launch of the Xbox Series X|S. Today EA Play is also available on PlayStation 5.
Source: Electronic Arts.
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