A few days ago, EA announced that its subscription service, EA Play, would be coming to Steam. We now know that this will take place on August 31.

EA Access is a subscription service for consoles and Origin Access is a subscription service for PCs, but they have been merged into EA Play, which will include The Sims 4, Battlefront II, Jedi: Fallen Order and more, for a fee, access to the company's game library, which includes The Sims 4, Battlefront II, Jedi: Fallen Order, and more. For £4/$5/month or £20/$30/year, you get access to the subscription library, 10% off EA game purchases, and the option to play new releases up to 10 days earlier than anyone else, for a total of 10 hours.

EA Play is also available as EA Play Pro for £15/$15 per month or £90/$100 per year. This version of the service removes the 10-hour limit on new games, allowing you to play the latest titles as fast as you like, and includes all the other EA Play benefits. PCGamesN reports that only the basic version of EA Play is available on Steam, and if you want a Pro membership If you want to become a pro member, you will need to stick with Origin.

EA games have returned to Steam after moving from Valve's platform to Origin; games purchased on Steam still require you to log in with your Origin account, but overall, Origin is not the Steam competitor EA had hoped it may not have been.