Not all Electronic Arts-published games will be given the Project $10/ Online Pass treatment. Rather than slap Syndicate with a one-use code that unlocks the gameâs multiplayer features, EA will keep such access free, to grow interest in the shooterâs co-op mode it says.
Syndicate is being published by EA Partners, meaning it doesnât own the studio (Starbreeze). But EA does own the intellectual property behind Syndicate, making this a curious choice. Especially as Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning another title being published under EA Partnersâwith heavy, direct investment from EAâwill be subjected to Online Pass treatment, and it has no multiplayer component. Other EA Partners titlesânotably Crysis 2âhave avoided such restrictions.
Jeff Gamon, the executive producer of EA Partners, told Eurogamer that EA kept Online Pass out of Syndicate because EA wanted âas little resistance or barriers to entry as possible,â Gamon said.
âUnder normal circumstances it would have had an online pass, but because it didnât have competitive multiplayer and because we wanted as many people as possible to be playing co-op, we got away with it,â Gamon said.
No Online Pass for Syndicate, EA confirms [Eurogamer]
