
Believe it or not, it's now been over two years since EA Play joined Xbox Game Pass Ultimate back on November 10th, 2020 (which was also the launch day for Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S), and we've been making a lot of use of that partnership over the past few years with the likes of FIFA, Battlefield, Star Wars and much more.
There's no sign of that partnership ending anytime soon, but something we are seeing is Ubisoft Plus launching on Xbox for the very first time. The company suggested quite a long time ago that the service wouldn't be part of Xbox Game Pass in any form, although some fans are still keeping their fingers crossed!
Hypothetically, let's just say that Microsoft gave you the choice to have either EA Play or Ubisoft Plus included as part of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. Which would you pick?
Personally, this writer would probably stick with EA Play for the aforementioned titles along with the likes of Need for Speed, It Takes Two, Titanfall 2 and many others, but at the same time I'd love to finally get my hands on the likes of Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Far Cry 6 and Riders Republic with Ubisoft Plus!
We'd love to hear your personal preference - you can give us your vote in the poll below.
Would you rather have EA Play or Ubisoft Plus as part of Xbox Game Pass? Tell us in the comments!
EA Play Or Ubisoft Plus? (3,246 votes)
- EA Play
- Ubisoft Plus
- I don't care for either!
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I went with EA only because I hate buying a roster update each year. Ubi games can be had for 70-80% if you can wait and stock up around the holiday push
Ea for me especially when the dead space remake comes to gamepass I want play that more than any ubisoft game
Ubisoft+ because all their games are also day one including their DLCs.
I enjoy ubisoft games more but EA has a better variety. Tough call, i went with ubi.
I voted ubi for games like south park, assassins creed, prince of persia, etc.
Well, Ubisoft, I suppose. I don’t think I’ve loved an EA title since Mass Effect 3, honestly. At least I’ve enjoyed Valhalla, even if AC has been out past its prime since Black Flag. Hope Skull and Bones I’d on Ubi’s service. I’d like to try it, even if I’m ye of little faith. Both companies though are a shadow of what they were 10, 15 years ago for me.
F1, Codemasters games, Star Wars, NFS & Battlefield make it an easy EA vote for me. Played AC:Origins on Game Pass and enjoyed it, but Far Cry 5, AC Odyssey, Watch Dogs 2, it's the same game each time with different clothes on. I'm not the biggest EA supporter but I definitely back them over Ubisoft these days personally.
Definitely EA Play as most Ubisoft games are basically the same and get dirty cheap in weeks.
Rather have both 😁
Neither, they both struggle to make anything of worth lately.
Ubisoft for me.
The only EA game I have played in forever is Fallen Order and that is the kind of game I would buy anyway.
EA play.
While ubisoft releases more games, the overall quality of EA’s output in the last 5 years has been much higher, especially the further you move away from battlefront 2 and anthem.
Since 2018 they had battlefront 2 which is a good game now, anthem and battlefield 2042. Everything else has been great or sports.
@Kaloudz Great question. I forgot about that. That was the last game I pre-ordered in September of 2020.
I need to check to see if my order is still pending.
Ubisoft wont be on games pass.be too expensive. People forgetting EAplay is 20 quid a year
Does EA play eventually get the dead space remake? If so I'd choose EA play but usually I prefer ubisoft games. But saying that ubisoft games usually go dirt cheap and are constantly in sale so maybe it's not worth it after all.
EA Play, absolute no-brainer. Always playing the (almost) newest sports games that are quite expensive versus games you can buy for under 20 euros and are mostly there to fill up some time in between games (which rarely happens anymore since being subscribed to both GP and PS Plus Essential).
EA play and it's not even remotely close.
I have to choose EA by default as I bought all the Ubisoft games I wanted in huge sales and still have to play many of them. If I didn't it would be Ubisoft by a mile.
Once upon a time I would have said Ubisoft, but their future is looking shaky at best right now. Weirdly enough, EA seems to have more potential.
I don't really want/need either one, but if I'm being forced to pick my own poison, it would have to be EA, I guess.
EA Play for the multiplayer games (having them on GP keeps the online communities a bit more lively), the backwards compatible games, & not needing to re-buy every game with a yearly release. Ubisoft stuff goes on sale super fast too to top it off.
Ok what if once Ubi+ launches, they play hard ball and eventually take all their games off GamePass and don’t offer any discounts on future games… would you get it then?
EA for me. Ubisoft games have to be the most cookie cutter games ever out there. They're essentially all the same game that's been reskinned.
Ea because of the free trials, Ubi games are usually always on sale too
@Kaloudz I think it's dead at this point. How hard could it have been for them to do? I honestly don't get it.
Is this a real question? LOL
EA offers much more variety, so it is a no Brainerd to me. Maybe if Ubisoft started releasing NEW Prince of Persia, Rayman and Splinter Cell games, then I could think about it
I voted neither.
It would be nice to get a free introductory month of Ubisoft+ as a perk for Game Pass when it comes out.
@Boffo eventually it will be, not many people are going to pay a subscription fee to play games that are always on clearance sale.
I honestly don't care, but since I buy sports day one, I choose Ubi 😎
EA play for sure, don't know if ubi deletes their games off uplay but like EA games more.
If not for EA play I would actually jave to buy fifa to play it 🤮
I rather have EA since I play more of their games then Ubisoft's.
I’d rather they reduced the price, and offered either as an add on. I’m not particularly fond of either companies games as they both heartily embrace the “nickel and dime” DLC and micro transaction model.
EA, this isnt a contest. Do I need a subscription to play assassins creed and far cry? If I had ubipass for free I probably would get 0 use out of it. EA puts out the occasional banger.
For their unpopularity, EA Play has much better games and a wider variety. Alice Madness Returns, Mass Effect, It Takes Two, Plants vs Zombies, Dragon Age Origins, Jedi Fallen Order, sports games. Once you have played one Ubisoft game, you have played them all.
Ubisoft no doubt about it. I don't care for EA games.
Selfishly I also have PS+, which has most of Ubisoft+ rolled in through anyway. So I’m voting EA Play.
Either way, Ubi prices drop like a rock shortly after launch. EA Play still seems like the better value.
EA+ for the F1, FIFA, etc.
-Stopped buying F1games for years but then I bought back some F1 games, like the 2019 & 2020 special edition, they were right up my alley. I did buy Fallen Order (because no MTX in the game was an incentive to buy it) but it came also to service EA+ IIRC. Got a few Mass Effect & Dead Space games, The Saboteur (only published by EA IIRC). Bought every Grid game but that's mostly because of Codemasters.
-And trying out some NHL games, Stopped buying Fifa games,
Long time ago I really liked Ubisoft, as dev & publisher:
-AC1, AC2, AC3 SE, every Splinter Cell, every Prince of Persia, a couple of Call of Juarez games, Most of the Trial games, most Driver games, some Rayman games, Good & Evil, all Brothers in Arms but Ubisoft only published them IIRC and owned by Gearbox, Some Rainbow Six games, several Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon games, 2 Watch Dogs games, first 3 Far Cry games, Immortal Fenyx, The 2 MP attempts ... etc.
-So I mostly owned their games and didn't need that PLUS before. And IMO they became mediocre, like more of the same & most the games are too slow (progress) for me I guess. And the fact that I became more picky about buying games now.
Ubisoft mean Quantity over Quality imo. Tbh, on GP I didn't finish 1 Ubisoft game.
-But I like the F1 games via GPU, the new EA WRC looks interesting and even The Crew 3 from Ubisoft looks interesting but I need a lot more information before I buy one of these ...
-But what could happen in the future for example is that MS Xbox or Sony PS co-finance some exclusive games for their platform!
Only a fool would choose ea
theres more great ip on EA all depends what you love, i love rpgs and sports games EA without a blink of an eye.
EA play i have played these on EAplay
Anthem
battlefield 3
battlefield 4
battlefield V
battlefield 2042
Crysis 1
Crysis 2
it takes two
mass effect
mass effect 2
mass effect 3
mass effect andromeda
mass effect legendary edition
fallen order
battlefront 2
titanfall 2
a way out
and next year i will play jedi survivor and dead space
Ubisoft do big games that are all the same just reskinned assassins creed, farcry all the same
the south park games are the only thing they do thats any differnt
I only say Ubisoft because they are the Lesser of two evils. Both companies suck as publishers/gatekeepers.
Solution is simple... Dump both and get some souls game publishers, like bandai namco and/or fromsoftware...
I chose EA play as I am accustomed to it with my gamepass ultimate subscription BUT truth be told I also really enjoy Ubisoft games. I wish that Ubisoft+ would be apart of gamepass ultimate because I can't justify another monthly gaming subscription on top of my gamepass ultimate & PS plus extra subscriptions. I am holding out hope we will see some sort of Ubisoft+ collaboration with Xbox gamepass. Happy gaming ✌️
Ubisoft. Their games are better.
EA Play, for the simple reason I buy quite a few Ubisoft games anyway (Assassins creed, Far Cry, Anno etc).
Frankly NEITHER are all that great, and add games at a snails pace. I.E. As far as I can see
Not exactly earth shattering on either side is it?
But if I had to pick probably EA for the trials and occasional gem like Jedi Fallen Order/Survivor, Mass Effect Legendary etc. I'm Ubi-ed out.
I dont think I have yet played any EA Play game so it’s easy to sacrifice that one, but at the same time I already own almost all UBisoft games so that’s not a win either… if I had a Time Machine, would had been nice to have UBisoft when I bought an XBox and has not gone on game purchase sprees.
Overall, though, I like UBisoft releases a lot more than EA releases.
EA Play by a country mile. Mass Effect LE and Titanfall 2 are better than everything Ubisoft has ever made, put together
There's games from the both of them I love, so it's really a hard choice for me. I already own every assassin's creed game, which are really the only games I play from ubisoft, so I'd stick with EA Play.
i said EA cause id rather buy and support Ubi then do(own almost all the games they made on xbox already) but i refuse to pay for NFL and Madden roster updates each year....not to mention i wouldnt buy a Battlefield game nor a need for speed but i do play them from time to time now...when im not in The Division 2 or MLB the Show ...
EA Play for sure, while I don't play sports titles anymore, it's nice to have the latest roster update for when I have someone over that likes to play those games. Besides, the Hazelight stuff is miles better than any Ubisoft game and those go on sale almost every week, at this point, I own everything I want to play from Ubisoft sans AC Valhalla, and that is because I haven't finished Odyssey.
I would rather have EA Play included in Gamepass. Only reason i say that is i am more willing to pay extra for Ubisoft + than paying extra for EA Play
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