Sonic Mania Leads Sega Push Onto EA’s Origin Access Premier

EA is adding three Sega PC titles to their Origin Access Premier subscription, which lets users get all of EA’s catalog for a single monthly fee.

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The Blue Blur’s latest adventure, Sonic Mania is headed to EA’s Origin Access Premier as the first of several Sega titles arriving on the service. While not the first name in gaming subscription services these days, Electronic Arts has one of the oldest with its EA Access and its PC equivalent, known as Origin Access. Both services are similar in concept, providing subscribers with access to EA’s back catalog for one low monthly fee. While EA Access on consoles has stuck primarily to EA-published games, Origin Access has been more willing to bring in third parties, and Sega is the biggest partner to join the service yet.

Origin Access also operates on a two-tiered system, each with its own price point. For $5 a month or $30 a year, subscribers can get most of EA’s library outside of its most recent titles. They also get access to indie-tier games from outside EA, including Hand of Fate, Sparklite, and several LEGO titles. For $15 a month or $100 a year, players can upgrade to the premier option, which lets them play EA’s latest games on day one. They also get larger scale third-party games like The Surge, Darksiders III, and A Plague Tale: Innocence.

EA announced earlier today that Sonic Mania would be joining the collection at the Origin Access Premier tier. The 2017 release was one of the best-received games in the Sonic The Hedgehog series in decades, receiving acclaim from critics and fans alike. EA also announced that two other Sega PC hits will be joining the service later this year. Two Point Hospital is a particularly ironic addition considering that its a spiritual successor to Theme Hospital, a tycoon game that Electronic Arts published in 1997. Releasing in August of 2018, the humorous simulator will be hitting Origin and Access Premiere later this summer.

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On the more serious side of things is the third game on offer from Sega, Endless Legend. A 4X turn-based fantasy strategy game from Amplitude Studios, the game pushed the genre forward when it came out back in 2014. After that success, the developers are preparing to release their next game onto Steam. Called Humankind, the planned 2021 release will host what the studio is calling an “OpenDev” version of the game that fans can contribute to as the game takes shape. There’s no word on if newer releases like Humankind will see Origin releases thanks to this newfound partnership, but it wouldn’t be surprising in the slightest.

There’s no denying that Sonic Mania is a great game, but it’s not a blockbuster release in 2020. Still, games like that and Sega’s other new offerings certainly put more weight behind EA’s subscription service in light of the increased competition in the field. Microsoft’s Game Pass service has become an institution across PC and Console thanks to plentiful new releases and a cheap entry cost. While EA’s subscriptions are still more notable than Ubisoft’s UPlay+ and Stadia’s free offerings with Stadia Pro, many of the games it previously offered have been cheap to purchase outright for a long while.

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