{"id":802562,"date":"2025-12-05T14:27:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/ea-play-getting-price-increase-with-annual-subs-up-from-1999-to-3599?utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=feed"},"modified":"2025-12-05T14:27:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:27:31","slug":"ea-play-getting-price-increase-with-annual-subs-up-from-19-99-to-35-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/ea-play-getting-price-increase-with-annual-subs-up-from-19-99-to-35-99\/","title":{"rendered":"EA Play getting price increase, with annual subs up from \u00a319.99 to \u00a335.99"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ea-play-getting-price-increase-with-annual-subs-up-from-19-99-to-35-99.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>\nEA is increasing the price of its EA Play subscription service &#8211; which provides on-demand access to a selection of the publisher&#8217;s titles, as well as early access to certain newer games &#8211; with the annual price of its standard tier set for a significant increase, up from &pound;19.99 to &pound;35.99.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEA Play <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/ea-play-launches-on-steam-at-the-end-of-august\">launched in 2020<\/a> when EA made the decision to combine its previous EA Access and Origin Access packages into a single service. Since then, prices have remained at &pound;3.99\/month or &pound;19.99\/year for EA Play, and &pound;14.99\/month or &pound;89.99\/year for EA Play Pro &#8211; which includes access to the publisher&#8217;s latest games as they launch, alongside other benefits.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/ea-raising-price-of-ea-play-subscription\">initially reported by GamesIndustry.biz<\/a>, however, those prices are changing, in some cases seeing a substantial increase. EA&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ea.com\/en-gb\/ea-play\">website<\/a> now prices EA Play&#8217;s standard tier at &pound;5.99\/$5.99 a month, while the annual price has been raised to &pound;35.99\/$39.99. EA Play Pro, meanwhile, is increasing to &pound;16.99\/$16.99 a month and &pound;109.99\/$99.99 annually.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/ea-play-getting-price-increase-with-annual-subs-up-from-1999-to-3599?utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=feed\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/ea-play-getting-price-increase-with-annual-subs-up-from-1999-to-3599?utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=feed\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EA is increasing the price of its EA Play subscription service &#8211; which provides on-demand access to a selection of the publisher&#8217;s titles, as well as early access to certain newer games &#8211; with the annual price of its standard tier set for a significant increase, up from &pound;19.99 to &pound;35.99. EA Play launched in 2020 when EA made the decision to combine its previous EA Access and Origin Access packages into a single service. Since then, prices have remained at &pound;3.99\/month or &pound;19.99\/year for EA Play, and &pound;14.99\/month or &pound;89.99\/year for EA Play Pro &#8211; which includes access to the publisher&#8217;s latest games as they launch, alongside other benefits. As initially reported by GamesIndustry.biz, however, those prices are changing, in some cases seeing a&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/ea-play-getting-price-increase-with-annual-subs-up-from-19-99-to-35-99\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":802563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[59,44,45,60,4616],"class_list":["post-802562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer","tag-pc","tag-ps4","tag-ps5","tag-xbox-one","tag-xbox-series-x-s"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>EA Play getting price increase, with annual subs up from \u00a319.99 to \u00a335.99 | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"EA is increasing the price of its EA Play subscription service - 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