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EA will not change its stance for Online Passes now that Microsoft has decided to drop DRM from Xbox One.
“[There is] no change to our decision to discontinue Online Pass. It is dead,” senior director of corporate communications John Reseburg told Polygon in response to Microsoft’s policy reversal.
“As we said a few weeks ago, none of our new EA titles will include online pass, and we are removing it from existing games as well. Nothing else on today’s news, but did want to be clear that our online pass decision was based on player feedback, and there’s no change.”
EA dropped its online pass scheme in late May and when Microsoft announced details of its DRM soon after, many people put one and one together. It seems though that EA was as surprised as anyone when Microsoft announced DRM for its machine, so EA’s stance will remain the same now that DRM is gone.
