After buying a year of EA’s PC subscription service, my time was finally up, and I got to reflect on Origin Access. Understanding the subscription service, its tiers and what it offers can be difficult, but one question is more important than all of those. Is Origin Access worth it in 2019?
EA pinged me an email the other day to update my payment options for my Origin Access subscription. A memory flashed in my mind of me removing Origin as a subscription on PayPal. After buying a year of EA’s PC subscription service, my time was finally up. I was free. Understanding the subscription service, its tiers, and what it offers can be difficult, but one question is more important than all of those: is Origin Access worth it in 2019?
Just to clarify, EA’s Origin Access subscription isn’t necessary to play games online or anything like that. This subscription service is exclusive to PC, and the community would almost certainly be outraged. This is also different from EA Access, a similar subscription service which is exclusive to Xbox One owners. If you’re done getting your head around that, you should know that Origin Access has two tiers, Origin Access Basic, and Origin Access Premier, which are similar, but Premier has a few significant advantages over Basic, at a significantly higher cost. It must be quite a heavy task to differentiate all of this in marketing.
The biggest reason to subscribe to Origin Access is games, of course. With Origin Access, you can play unlimited amounts of EA’s game library, from classic games like Populous and Dungeon Keeper, to new titles such as Mass Effect Andromeda and NFL 19. What is perhaps more interesting, is that it’s not just EA games available to you through Origin Access.
