{"id":9364,"date":"2010-05-10T14:29:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T21:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=9364"},"modified":"2018-08-09T19:53:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T19:53:18","slug":"ea-installs-registration-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/ea-installs-registration-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Electronic Arts Installs Registration System"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9366\" style=\"width: 296px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9366\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9366\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Tiger-11-S.jpg\" alt=\"Starting with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 all EA Sports titles will require registration to receive DLC.\" width=\"286\" height=\"400\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Starting with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 all EA Sports titles will require registration to receive DLC.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MAY 10, 2010 \u2022 Starting with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11, Electronic Arts is launching a permanent one-time registration program to consumers who buy its games at retail. Registration will open up exclusive DLC and multiplayer tournament options. Those who buy the title used will have to pay $10 for the same access. All upcoming EA Sports titles are slated to receive the registration scheme. Previous titles such as Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Dragon Age: Origins and Mass Effect 2 have used the system. EA says 70% of\u00a0 consumers who bought those games registered them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: The industry has spoiled many users by allowing for unlimited free online game play.\u00a0 The fact that a consumer can buy a game and receive free unlimited online game play and customer support should not be set in stone.\u00a0 Many products have shown that consumers are willing to pay extra for online access.\u00a0 Electronic Arts&#8217; program is really just a baby step towards telling consumers not to take free multiplayer online for granted.\u00a0 The idea that a consumer that didn&#8217;t buy a product directly from the manufacturer must pay $10 to get online support seems modest and fair.\u00a0 Nevertheless, we can see many users crying foul.\u00a0 That is what happens when you let consumers take a valuable cost-added extra feature like unlimited free online multiplayer for granted.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAY 10, 2010 \u2022 Starting with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11, Electronic Arts is launching a permanent one-time registration program to consumers who buy its games at retail. Registration will open up exclusive DLC and multiplayer tournament options. Those who buy the title used will have to pay $10 for the same access. All upcoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[78],"tags":[53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9364"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16849,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9364\/revisions\/16849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}