EA has begun waiving the fee for existing online passes following recently announced plans to discontinue the unpopular program, which charges second-hand games buyers for accessing multiplayer features.
An EA spokesperson told CVG: "As we discontinue Online Pass for our new EA titles, we are also in the process of eliminating it from all our existing EA titles as well. We heard the feedback from players and decided to do away with Online Pass altogether.
"Players will see it first with some EA Sports titles, where a prompt to enter an Online Pass code will no longer appear in-game; with other titles we are simply making Online Passes available free of charge online.
Zoom"These are rolling updates that are taking effect over the next several weeks. We hope players continue to enjoy our games and online services for a long time to come."
As spotted on NeoGAF, EA has already waived the fee for online passes for some Xbox 360 games, with all of the below now free. Other games will follow suit across all relevant platforms.
- Alice: Madness Returns - American McGee's Alice (the first game in the Alice series, access it through the disc, was 800 MSP)
- Bad Company 2 VIP (was 800 MSP)
- Bulletstorm Online Pass (was 800 MSP)
- Dragon Age: Origins - The Stone Prisoner (was 1200 MSP)
- Dragon Age 2: The Black Emporium (was 800 MSP)
- Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Online Pass (was 800 MSP)
- Mass Effect 2: Cerberus Network (was 1200 MSP)
- Medal of Honor Online Pass (was 800 MSP)
- Shift 2 Unleashed Online Pass (was 800 MSP)
- Skate 3: Skate Share Pack (was 800msp)
