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Via Google Translate on the Italian article
After announcing the arrival of EA Play on the Game Pass in September last year, Microsoft and Electronic Arts have decided to postpone its release on PC, and launch exclusively on the Console. EA Play, formerly known as EA Access (or Origin Access in its PC version), is a subscription that allows you to play a selection of titles from the manufacturer of the same name, which can be subscribed both monthly and annually. The inclusion at no additional cost on the Game Pass Ultimate, for both PC and Console, should have brought a significant increase in value to the Microsoft subscription, however in the end EA and Microsoft agreed to postpone the release on PC and from December of the 'last year there was the most absolute silence on the matter, a silence that we will try to break today for you with the help of our friend Simone Franco .
The delay is mainly due to the lack of an efficient method of distributing the games included in the subscription. EA Play for PC is currently managed through a dedicated Electronic Arts platform, Origin,which, however, does not support the connection of the Microsoft account to check whether the user owns Game Pass Ultimate or not, therefore this cannot be the solution adopted by EA / Microsoft for the management of EA Play titles for Game Pass on PC. Another solution to distribute your games on PC is represented by the Microsoft store itself, as all the games belonging to the Game Pass already use this method. EA already had all of its games on the store in December, but in their Xbox versions, not compatible with PCs. The news we share with you today is this: in the last five months Microsoft and Electronic Arts have taken steps to upload versions of their compatible PC games to the Store , all marked with the code name "Rosebud". We are pretty sure (although there is no official yet) that these titles actually represent EA Play games for Game Pass on PC. To date, there are 75 Rosebud titles on the Microsoft Store , and they faithfully correspond to the games offered by the “traditional” EA Play subscription for PC.
There is one interesting exception that we have found among the titles already present on the Microsoft Store and it is represented by FIFA 21 : a Rosebud version has already been loaded on the Store, although the game is not yet part of EA Play . Usually the new chapter of the FIFA series is inserted in EA Play in the period of the year April-May, therefore it is reasonable to expect that, at the same time as the announcement of EA Play for Game Pass on PC, FIFA 21 will already be available in the list of available games on Game Pass for PC
After announcing the arrival of EA Play on the Game Pass in September last year, Microsoft and Electronic Arts have decided to postpone its release on PC, and launch exclusively on the Console. EA Play, formerly known as EA Access (or Origin Access in its PC version), is a subscription that allows you to play a selection of titles from the manufacturer of the same name, which can be subscribed both monthly and annually. The inclusion at no additional cost on the Game Pass Ultimate, for both PC and Console, should have brought a significant increase in value to the Microsoft subscription, however in the end EA and Microsoft agreed to postpone the release on PC and from December of the 'last year there was the most absolute silence on the matter, a silence that we will try to break today for you with the help of our friend Simone Franco .
The delay is mainly due to the lack of an efficient method of distributing the games included in the subscription. EA Play for PC is currently managed through a dedicated Electronic Arts platform, Origin,which, however, does not support the connection of the Microsoft account to check whether the user owns Game Pass Ultimate or not, therefore this cannot be the solution adopted by EA / Microsoft for the management of EA Play titles for Game Pass on PC. Another solution to distribute your games on PC is represented by the Microsoft store itself, as all the games belonging to the Game Pass already use this method. EA already had all of its games on the store in December, but in their Xbox versions, not compatible with PCs. The news we share with you today is this: in the last five months Microsoft and Electronic Arts have taken steps to upload versions of their compatible PC games to the Store , all marked with the code name "Rosebud". We are pretty sure (although there is no official yet) that these titles actually represent EA Play games for Game Pass on PC. To date, there are 75 Rosebud titles on the Microsoft Store , and they faithfully correspond to the games offered by the “traditional” EA Play subscription for PC.
There is one interesting exception that we have found among the titles already present on the Microsoft Store and it is represented by FIFA 21 : a Rosebud version has already been loaded on the Store, although the game is not yet part of EA Play . Usually the new chapter of the FIFA series is inserted in EA Play in the period of the year April-May, therefore it is reasonable to expect that, at the same time as the announcement of EA Play for Game Pass on PC, FIFA 21 will already be available in the list of available games on Game Pass for PC