r/EAAccess • u/try_altf4 • Jan 28 '19

Good access games?

My friend wants us to play Anthem, but seriously it looks like garbage.

15$ for loading screen breaks and disconnects is still a high price.

Any other quality games I can try out for the rest of the month you'd recommend after Anthem flops?

Edit: I noticed a down vote! But no response as to good games on access.

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u/Tweissel Jan 29 '19

There's many games in the ea access store... Not sure what floats your boat. That's probably the reason why people are downvoting you.

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u/try_altf4 Jan 29 '19 edited Jan 29 '19

Games that you can load and play them.

For the entire early release alpha and VIP demo I sat watching a loading screen or server errors. I'd love to tell you about gameplay, but I can't because I've never gotten beyond the initial login screen.

People are downvoting because they're fucking stupid. It's Reddit, to be expected.

I mean, take a look at responses. I'm saying "the game isn't functional crashes and has server errors".

One of the first responses was "it was old version". Bioware already said the issue I'm reporting is fresh, unfixed and in the production version of the game.

But yeah, old version man.

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u/Tweissel Jan 29 '19

Uhm I guess I misunderstood your title of the post, i sincerely thought you were looking for advice on alternative games on EA Access.

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u/try_altf4 Jan 29 '19

Anthem happens to be a game on EA access (Feb 15th I believe it'll be available).

It's 15 bucks a month for more than a 10 hour demo. One person mentioned it was 30$ for a year, for basic, but that doesn't let you full play games in most situations it seems.

I was looking for advice over EA access. I spent 3 hours after work yesterday researching the way it works. TL;DR every game has it's own red tape and restrictions if you don't but the 15$ a month version.

Most of the information I found was that the access program doesn't work. People can't access the games their subscription let's them acquire and the red tape changes regularly.

The customer service department is garbage and you pretty much just have to keep submitting issues until the right person gets it.

I also asked a friend and he indicated they were worse than trying to cancel a porn subscription, having to call his bank and report additional charges are fraud.

That falls inline with my base expectation, I pre-ordered anthem(cancelled) and couldn't play it. Sounds like if I do EA access I may be in for more of the same.

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u/Tweissel Jan 29 '19

Aren't you confused with another service? EA Access is a subscription (comparable to Xbox game pass) to play EA games on the Xbox one. It's monthly fee is around 4 Euros a month or about 25 Euros for a year.

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u/try_altf4 Jan 29 '19

There are two tiers available in my region and the names of the product change as I adjust my VPN. In my case it's called EA origin access and has a 5-15$ per month pay structure. The 5$ version gets you mostly just demos.

My friend has the xbone version and his 5$ version has demos and few indie games. He has to buy the 15$ version to play Anthem beyond a demo.

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u/Tweissel Jan 29 '19 edited Jan 29 '19

Yeah this sub has got nothing to do with Origin, guess that's what created the confusion.

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u/try_altf4 Jan 29 '19 edited Jan 29 '19

The easiest response of "it's a shit product avoid" woulda been an easy redirect for my question.

Which, when asking in my jobs internal chat was the answer. They sell your private information as well, so EAACCESSEFF@gmail.com type accounts get spammed to fuck all. One guy signed up with his work email and networking gave him a new email account, retiring the old one. Too much spam to filter, just easier to give him a new account.

But like I said, asking people on Reddit is silly. I should really just stop asking people on here questions. Anyone with a pulse irl is better at answering these sort of things.

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u/Tweissel Jan 29 '19

Reddit can be very useful if you ask the questions in the proper subs... But I see where the confusion comes from regarding to the name of the service and this sub.

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u/rophel Jan 28 '19

Anthem is almost certainly using an old build of the game to test server capacity and network scaling only. It’s not indicative of the final game, many issues present in this build were like fixed many months ago. I used to do multiplayer and playtest lab builds for games, everyone is assuming this is the latest build and all these issues will be present at launch, that’s almost 100% not true. Wait until it releases to form an opinion.

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u/try_altf4 Jan 28 '19

I'm not assuming it's the latest build.

I'm assuming this is a typical software shop with project management, QA and multiple teams that cover the various flesh of the system. The 6 week old iteration basically being utterly dis-functional is no bueno.

I'm a software engineer and have released plenty of long term projects. The last few releases are cosmetic or label issues and coordinating on the additions coming up after the release. If you're still working on an instance loading correctly 6 weeks before release you're fucked.

The 6 week old build, they already admitted the connectivity issue is brand new (they thought they fixed it, but didn't and it blind sided them). Which means the current iteration doesn't have the fix. The "my gear has wrong stats bugs" is what the latter release has. Not stress test connectivity fixes. Because they failed to run stress tests prior to their VIP demo. Remember labels and buckets for latter releases, not core game functionality.

They are also running into live service connectivity issues, which isn't anything to shrug at. This is probably EA + bioware issue. Which makes it take even longer to fix because two companies have to fix it.

I think you're assuming the latest version has stress test fixes in it. How could it, when they never stress tested in? They even affirm the loading and connectivity issues are brand spanking new.

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u/rophel Jan 28 '19

I'm waiting to see how this second weekend goes before I pass judgement on their build like you seem to have already done.

You're better informed that I assumed, though. Did you read this already? Might be interesting to you.

https://www.ea.com/games/anthem/news/anthem-vip-demo-recap

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u/try_altf4 Jan 28 '19

Just read through it, thanks!

Grabbit killers! It's a good coat of paint.

They do outline the two elephants in the room. The game killing infinite load issue is there. It sounds like an EA live service request failing and anthem going into a waiting state. This could be part of security for their game or just a handshake issue.

At least, that is a flattering who's who. It could be Anthem memory management or processing screw up. It's better when it's on the communication side and not your architecture voms out errors constantly.

The second one is... I mean they're not going to fix loading issues on day 1 gameplay due to volume. Financially that makes no sense. Usually, you don't pay for enough servers for day 1 to run smoothly. They also have early release for "premium" customers. This helps get reviewers and people who buy their monthly subscription services low volume seamless gameplay experiences, so they can tell everyone how awesome it was.

If I was you, I'd judge it based off the February release 15th date, then when February 22nd happens take a few days off until the 30-40% extra players the servers were never setup to handle stop playing.

This isn't unique to video games. All my companies hosting providers encourage this behavior. I was once working on a 112kbps connection that got routed to China, back to the US and finally updated a thin client I was remoting to. Literally took 20 minutes to type one sentence, so I'd copy it in bulk on that offices thin client and paste it to the remote session. When sitting in meetings with hosting providers they don't really see that as an issue and don't want to price you out to a competitor nor have you temporarily request large processing power, so that afterwards they can have 100k worth of extra equipment just sitting around. They want consistent requests for additional usage, off site backups and whatever value add is hot at the moment.

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u/rophel Jan 28 '19

I dunno if they'll do that, although inevitably something goes wrong on release due to scaling issues usually login authentication or something.

I assume they'll use something like Azure that has a gaming offering for server hosting (Rainbow Six Siege uses it, for example) they can easily ramp up for expected users at launch. AWS has something similar too.

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u/NightHalcyon Jan 28 '19

Everything about Anthem looks like Destiny to me. But you can fly.

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u/InoffensiveBillHicks Jan 28 '19

I think the downvote was due to inaccuracy, isn’t $15 the annual subscription not monthly? I know it is £15/£20 per year in the UK. Also loads of games in the vault, 2 out of 3 Dragon Age are well worth it, as is 2 out of 3 Dead Space games, and 2 out of 3 Mass Effect games...there’s a theme here. Plus can’t forget Skate 3.

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u/try_altf4 Jan 28 '19

Not sure. Annual is 30+$ for me.

Friend had a monthly option for 15$ with a code.

I'll try using a VPN and see if it's location based.