Electronic Arts has confirmed it has no plans to resurrect its Online Pass system, even though Microsoft and Sony have both announced the next-gen consoles will support used games.

The company's senior director of corporate communications John Reseburg told Polygon that EA wouldn't be reversing its stance just because Microsoft is now going to support the trade-in and resale of games "[There is] no change to our decision to discontinue Online Pass. It is dead," he revealed. "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 did want to be clear that our online pass decision was based on player feedback, and there’s no change."EA announced its decision to get rid of its Online Passes in May , before starting to make them free for games that previously used them at the end of last month. For those not in the know, Online Passes were codes provided with new copies of a game that had to be entered in order to play that game online. This meant if you bought a title second hand, you couldn’t take it online unless you dished out more money to buy a new, unused code from the publisher directly.

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