Quote: EA has begun waiving the fee for existing online passes following recently announced plans to discontinue the unpopular program, which charges second-hand games buyers for accessing multiplayer features.
An EA spokesperson told CVG: "As we discontinue Online Pass for our new EA titles, we are also in the process of eliminating it from all our existing EA titles as well. We heard the feedback from players and decided to do away with Online Pass altogether.
"Players will see it first with some EA Sports titles, where a prompt to enter an Online Pass code will no longer appear in-game; with other titles we are simply making Online Passes available free of charge online. | 
