EA has confirmed to Polygon that its Online Pass program, which ended in May, remains "dead" following the announcement last night that Microsoft has changed its stance on used games and game sharing for Xbox One.
John Reseburg, the company's senior director of corporate communications, said "[There is] no change to our decision to discontinue Online Pass. It is dead.
"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 [we] did want to be clear that our Online Pass decision was based on player feedback, and there's no change."
EA labels president Frank Gibeau recently called the Online Pass feature "flat out dumb" saying the negative perceptions of EA the program generated outweighed the money they raised.
The company's COO, Peter Moore, has also said they never called on Microsoft to adopt their initial controversial policies for Xbox One.
Sony announced in dramatic fashion at E3 that they would be keeping their exisiting DRM policies for PS4. Yesterday, Microsoft abandoned their own plans for used games and DRM on Xbox One saying they were responding to consumer feedback.
Some had believed EA only dropped Online Pass due to Microsoft's restrictions but it seems that this wasn't the case.
