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What Is EA’s Origin Access, and Is It Worth It?










EA’s Origin Access gives you access to more than 70 games, discounts, and new EA games before they’re released for a monthly (or yearly) subscription fee. But is it really worth it?

What Is Origin Access? 
 
Origin is the game store run by Electronic Arts for PCs and Macs. It primarily—but not only—offers EA games. Origin Access is the subscription service attached to Origin.  You don’t need to pay for Origin Access to use Origin—you can buy games through Origin and play them normally without any subscription fee.

Origin Access costs either $5 per month, or $30 per year. At $30 per year, that’s $2.50 a month—although you’re locking your payment in and you won’t be able to get a refund if you decide you don’t want to stay subscribed for the entire year.

If you pay the subscription fee, you get all-you-can-play access to over 70 older games in EA’s “vault”. You also save 10% on every game or DLC purchase you make on Origin, and this discount applies even if the game is already on sale.

As an additional bonus, you’ll typically gain access to new EA games five days before they’re released, without paying extra. So, for example, Origin Access subscribers could play a 10-hour trial version of Mass Effect: Andromeda five days before the final version was released.

How Many Games Are Available?

 More than 70 games are available in EA’s vault, including big-name games like The Sims 4, FIFA 17, Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, Titanfall, Mass Effect 3, Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare, Battlefield 4, Crysis 3, Star Wars Battlefront, Dragon Age: Inquisition, SimCity 4, and more. In fact, the complete Dead Space, Dragon Age, and Mass Effect series are included. Scroll down and you’ll find that a good chunk of the games are older EA games that were created for MS-DOS, like the Ultima series.

Most of the games have one thing in common: They were created and published by EA. However, there are a few smaller indie games that weren’t published by EA in the library here.

You can view a full list of included Vault games on the EA website.