[The Yen Man]

Originally Posted by cDnStealth

There is no way they provide Live for free. The host of the Gametrailers feed asked if the console will be required to be always online and was given an answer of no. For multiplayer and streaming yes. No mention of used games.

For the always online part, MS kind of passed the buck onto the developers. They basically stated, no, you don't need to always be online, but we do have that feature should developers want to use it. So if EA decides they want to make their games always online, then they can do so.